FIAR: Mailing May [co-op study]

The second book we discussed is, Mailing May by Micheal Tunnell.  This is a sweet book, and it offers up lots to do for side exploration, but being that we only had a 20 or so minutes to cover it-I had to be selective in my options-

We did the following:

Copywork page I made, that you can download 

from my Scribd page.

Homeschool Share page on Mailing May

(ID shutterfold, Mailing Me, Train Tickets)

There is another-How Much to Mail-but for the life of me, I dunno where that came from.

For the Mailing Me booklet-we weighed the kids, then they wrote down how much they weigh then converted the amount to cents (I did a bit of math and came up with May costing about a penny per pound...not 100% accurate but close enough-so they just converted their weight to see what it would have cost them to go by mail)

Postal Pack (6th download down from top of listings-

it is the Postal Pack for Elementary Students)

we chose to do pages 16-19 which is
 the postal transportation time line project. 

I also chose to do a few extra activities
with my son at home-there is some cool stuff in this) 

We also added:

Potato chips for our snack-being that Idaho is a big producer of tators!

As usual for our FIAR books-we did the map disk placement.  I own a fabric world map, that I have 

placed the appropriate velcro dots on (location of the various books) and then have the story disks

for the student to place in the proper spot (of where the story takes place).

obviously not all disks are on there for this-I took this pic to show the ones I have right now

The kids are working on rug braiding for their Handicraft class, and so that covers a project idea for Mailing May (love when that happens).  

my boy working on his at home (which everyone has to do-not enough time in co-op)

And a mom is bringing in her kids Thomas the Train set to play with since May traveled on a steam engine to get  to her grannie's house. Now I would have loved to delve into the trains more, since all but 2 of the kids are boys-and you know how boys love trains...but again-the time crunch prevented this.  So I am adding that into my son's extra work on Mailing May. [I will highlight those pages when we are all done]

I am again, penning before we are completely done with it-so I will come back and add some pics and show some work they did.