Teaching about World War II

Figuring out exactly which parts  about World War II has been a bit challenging.  I wanted to take three weeks to cover it.  I wanted to go into a lot of detail, but not too much.  For instance we kinda just touched the surface of concentration camps and all that.  {we will save that for when we get to this again in 4 years from now, he’ll be old enough then} 

The plane he made after today’s lesson

Our Plan

So, we will notebook the main people involved during the dates of 1939-1945.  For us, notebooking means we use

 this page.
Read a basic book about Anne Frank, and read this Corrie ten Boom book.


We also will have a list of Vocabulary words.  Dividing an extensive list of words between three days a week. 
Subjects we are covering.

Europe in the War
Homeside and women in the war
Spying in the War
the Pacific side of the war
planes of the war
Inventions during this time

Projects we are planning…

make  your own plane
make a yellow star, and write about what you think your feelings would have been if you were a Jewish child during this time
make invisible ink
put together a ration kit
map the countries involved
send a care package to a soldier
listen to WWII era music

I got a lot of my ideas from these books

Both of these are excellent books. 

Today, was a day in our studies that Noah liked – project day.  He is not so much a fan of notebooking day. 
World War II planes. 
Some pictures of him in action. 

Copy the pages from above WWII project book


He really liked reading about all the planes


We needed a better color example for our project, so we googled it. 

Notice the gum – he insist it helps him concentrate. 


The finished project – to make this he just used white poster board, and colored pencils, and markers.