“A NEW HOME FOR THE BOXCAR”

This chapter marked the end of our first Beyond Five in a Row unit, or chapter book in volume 5. We loved our time rowing The Boxcar Children. It’s such a wonderful story about the Alden family.

Jordan and I have been reading The Boxcar Children Beginning together at night. It’s bitter-sweet, because it portrays the happy life with their parents before they were orphaned.

BIBLE:

Character Lessons:

Jordan continued reading through the FIAR Bible and character lessons. We split up the remaining scripture verses over the rest of the week.

Memory Verse:

Jordan memorized 2 Corinthians 9:15 while rowing this chapter.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

A Rail Car in Your Backyard:

As we spoke about repurposing rail cars, I remembered visiting an inn in Yountville, California made entirely of old railcars.

We watched this clip from our Boxcar Playlist.

A Portrait of the Aldens:

Since most portraits are captured on film, we read about the history of photos and cameras in the Usborne Book of Knowledge.

Afterwards, Jordan sketched the Alden family using various cartoon styles. This activity was a welcome brain break for Bub.

Making Friends – Learning About Their Interests:

Bub has a great group of young friends at church. They enjoy seeing each other during class and every Friday night at youth group. Since we were studying friendship, I thought it would be great for him to find out a little more about them.

I put a polling activity on his “check-off” list for that day. He LOVED this idea. In fact, he decided to use his “friend text thread” to poll everyone.

HELPFUL LINKS:

Chapter Book GRAB BAG:

I created a Grab Bag for the The Boxcar Children Mini Unit. The Grab Bag series is a collection of worksheets and/or activities that I created while studying the FIAR Chapter Book units with my children.

You can purchase your copy HERE at our TPT Store.

*NOTE: Please be aware that any printable from the Grab Bag series may have worksheets that are similar and/or the same as those available in our other printables. We try to include anything that could enhance your student(s) learning experience as you row the chapter book series.

Pinterest Board:

You can find most of the activities, ideas, and printables from this post on The Boxcar Children Pinterest Board.

Youtube Playlist:

As with our other rows, we created The Boxcar Children playlist with read-alouds, music, science, and other clips.