My wonderful friend Shannon is still working with me to create the Calendar Connections cards. She is a fellow inner city missionary with me and also a homeschooler {and former school teacher}.
We chose the theme of Weather for April!
The facts are written at a 3-6th grade level but you will be able to water them down for younger kids. It’s a great way to involve your entire family in exploring a particular theme.
The cards fit my particular pocket chart calendar, I ordered mine from Oriental Trading but they now have the same one on Amazon!
but you could use a poster foam board and velcro to easily create your own set up. You could also use a standard pocket chart. They seem like they would fit in this calendar on Amazon but I am not certain.
I am now creating smaller sets to go along with the small pocket charts found recently in the Target $1 section. Be sure to visit this post for a tutorial of how to sew your $1 pocket chart into a calendar!
There is also a new sheet included to be used in a Calendar Notebook if you are using those too!
I printed my numbers on cardstock and laminated them before cutting them apart.
You can download these for FREE here!
You can use most of our Calendar Connections cards for any month! We are slowly building up what we hope will be a wide variety of themes to choose from!
as our inspiration for this part.
This is the first lapbook we have done that has sort of fizzled…you know? We both lost interest as we went along. I think because it was in the midst during the holidays and then drug out past vacation and such. It just took us too long, we’re both glad it’s done! He did learn a lot though, I just should have been a more interesting teacher with this one!
we used the book 
to conduct a lightning experiment to go along with our weather unit. Daddy is in charge of most experiments, his contribution to homeschooling! 
I got my camera all ready, excited to see lightning!!! P and baby brother eagerly awaited the results, only to find out that we couldn’t create enough static electricity in our home to actually make it work. My husband tried the carpet, a santa hat, his hair…nothing worked. We did manage to get the little piece of tin foil to move, it just wouldn’t create a shock. We all felt a little defeated, but we remembered the motto form the movie, which was “keep moving forward.” We all laughed a bit and tried to muster up a smile, despite the letdown.
a few weeks ago and was excited to show it to him for school today! He loved it!! 
