Living and Learning on the Move

     Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you one of my very favorite methods of teaching my children.... through lapbooks! Lapbooking is a fun way to cover any subject from a literature unit on a book (like Charlotte's Web, etc.), math (like Multiplication Pizza Party), social studies/history (anything from Ancient Egypt to learning about geography of a state or even country) or even grammar (we are doing one on a grammar detective)! Our 1st lapbook was actually on Guinea Pigs. The kids wanted to get a guinea pig and I decided to have them learn all they could about them before bringing one home! I also wanted to mention some of my observations in regards to lapbooking. I found that the kids are always VERY proud of their final product and they gladly “show” it to everyone! When they “show” it around, they are restating everything they learned throughout the process. Ever since the very first time that I witnessed them doing this, I KNEW this was an excellent hands-on approach to teaching just about anything!

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Like many businesses in the United States, In the Hands of a Child is a small company. We began In the Hands of a Child in 2002 when Kimm and Niki, two homeschooling moms, found themselves constantly searching for the right graphics and information for their children to complete hands-on activities and unit studies. The two quietly "set up shop" on the web and became the first company to sell ready to assemble lapbook kits.

Three years later, Katie, a stay at home mom of three, joined In the Hands of a Child as an author/researcher and partner in the growing business. Nine years later, we are still small, but thriving. The three of us share equal responsibilities, each bringing unique qualities and talents to our small business, with one goal in mind- to provide quality unit study, lapbooking, and notebooking materials to all educators. Together, we have published over 400 packs and continue to release new ones on a regular basis!

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     Through doing research of our destination, I found a website that offered quite a few attractions, museums, and other things to do for a relatively reasonable price. I found a similar site when I was in Houston called the City Pass (www.citypass.com). The one for Las Vegas is called the Las Vegas Power Pass (www.visiticket.com/LasVegas). If you’d like to get it for just one day, you can see as many places as you can or would like to for $80 for an adult or $50 for a child. The more days you add on, the cheaper it is considered per day. For an example, we did it for two days so it was $99 for adults and $66 for kids. So, if you do it for one day for an adult it averages $80 or 2 days for an average of $49 a day. If you do it for 5 days, it runs $35 a day.  Before getting it, we decided what we’d like to see in Vegas and how much it would cost us if we didn’t get the pass. Just to see the Beatles concert ($50), Siegfried and Roy’s Dolphin Habitat ($20) and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum ($20), it would have been $90! On top of those destinations, we also had at least another 25+ things to see and do for “free” with the pass. Wow, did we find a lot of educational, yet fun things to do in “Sin City.” Not only did we find educational things but we also found other areas of interest like arcades! I’m not a big video game player or enthusiast by any means; however, with the pass we each were able to play for up to 4 hours in the arcade for FREE (a value of about $30 each). We even had pizza, soda, and some ride coupons!

Kristi volunteered to go on stage to help the magician! Boy were we proud of her and was she nervous! She still doesn't know how she made that table rise!

Ta ~ Da!

We were rocking and dancing in our seats (just as a family) and Kristi was dancing so much in her seat that they came up and asked if Kristi would join the Beatles on stage as their biggest fan! People all over Vegas kept coming up to us congratulating Kristi for doing so well up on stage with them! Quite an experience! She was able to take home a little tambourine with all their autographs on it!

 

 More fun on the go-carts!

Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum with President Obama! 

     I thought I would write this blog post because my general misconception (along with probably many other people’s misconceptions) is that Las Vegas is not a family friendly place for children.  I hope you have fun looking through all the fun things that we enjoyed sharing with each other!