Homeschooling Moms across the world are preparing for one of the biggest unit studies of the year!
We are busy writing and downloading unit studies, creating lapbooks, sharing lesson plans, eating food from around the world, wallpapering our homes in world maps, coloring flags from different nations, and most importantly—we are sharing with our children how many different countries can come together for a few days in peace.
And if we can work in English, Social Studies, Geography, Math, Art, Writing, Handwriting and Humanities at the same time? Well, that’s just a bonus!
I am not normally a sports person. I confess that I do not watch sports regularly on TV or even know the season for various sports, but there is something about the Olympics that I L-O-V-E. There is something that causes me to watch sports I’ve never heard of before to cheer on my team.
G-O—–T-E-A-M—–U-S-A
I also have a confession to make: I think I love it more because I can turn it into a lapbook and notebooking project!
Here are some of our Olympic projects:
Here are pages we are incorporating into our notebooking:
Select individual flag printables:
United States of America
Union Jack Flag, Scotland, Welsh, Irish, Canadian, Australian, Austrian, China, Belgian, Czech Republic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Indian, German, Italian, Japanese, Malaysian,
Flag coloring Pages:
South Korea, Romania, Malta, United States, Israel,
Olympic sports flashcards (free registration required to download)
This site explains all about the individual games. Its my cheat sheet link to getting through this unit study!
You can visit NBC’s Olympic Website and see live and prerecorded video action of the games plus get the complete listing of Olympic Medal winners
Are you incorporating the Olympic Games into your lesson plans? If so, what are you doing?
We are totally into the Olympics too! I love the stuff you found to add to the lapbooks!
I had such grand plans for the Olympics this year! But alas, a trip to the lake and a boy at camp has distracted my serious learning endeavors.
BUT we do have the Olympics on all day long and the boys are cracking me up with HOW EXCITED they are about every single even that the US is in. Table tennis? GO USA! Swimming? GO USA! (and Noah likes the curly headed guy on the US team even though Phelps is faster). Womens Volleyball? GO USA! Yup, they don’t discriminate– it is equal hootin’ and hollerin’ around here– they even made some cute signs to hold up to the TV. :snort: Like the athletes can see them! Oh it totally makes me smile and want to wave the flag! 🙂