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Date Posted: 13:18:53 08/11/02 Sun
Author: Kris in TN
Subject: Ok, here's a brief description ...
In reply to: Sharon 's message, "Kris, tell us about your lapbooks" on 11:28:02 08/11/02 Sun

Well, they are kinda hard to describe ... I'm not following the minit book ideas in Dinah Zike for ALL of the information we are including in our lapbooks. I purchased a Science for Grades 3-4 book from Walmart that we are studying alongside PP - we will cut out some of the pages and glue them into the lapbooks b/c it's easier to do that sometimes since I am working with a 1st grader w/limited fine motor skills (i.e. he doesn't write well and tires easily when writing lots of info)!

Here are some things we did for our study of Botany:

The kids colored a picture to glue to the front. Inside we have the definition of Botany in a leftover space and some pages from the workbook glued in covering seeds, parts of a tree and a cross-section of a trunk. We made the following minit books (1) Foods the Indians Gave Us - inside are flaps covering the foods with the types (meats, vegetables, fruits, etc.) showing. The child can look at the type and try to remember what foods are listed under the flap. (2) we drew a diagram of a plant cell and labelled it. (3) Question and answer strips about Plant Cells, Plant Food, Flowers, Vegetables, etc. (4) a flap book (called a Large Vocabulary Book in the Zike BBofBooks) with the flower, stem, leaves and root cut out and glued on the front. The front is divided into the 4 parts and inside each flap is a description of the flower parts and also an interior drawing of the parts showing reproductive parts, cells inside the leaves, etc. (5) a Layered Look Book describing the 4 layers of a forest of trees (canopy, shrub, ground and leaf litter).

For our Native American books, the kids again colored a picture and glued it on the outside. Inside is a US map and we've colored in the 6 groups according to the color Sharon uses in PP. We've glued in some papers we picked up at the Cherokee exhibit we visited. Then I typed up information sheets on each group (food, clothing, housing, government, crafts, religion, entertainment, and children) after we studied each group. Then we glued this information into a colored piece of paper that matches the color on the map and the kids decorated the outside with something that reminded them of that group. For example, the kids drew Totem Poles of our family for the Northwest Indians. My daughter assigned each of us a different animal and my son assigned us each to be a certain dinosaur (oh well, at least it was a bit creative!). We still have some space in this lapbook and so we'll draw pictures of the various housing and include a paragraph about how they were forced off of their lands by the incoming settlers.

Our Zoology lapbook has been fairly easy as we've basically just glued in pages from the Science workbook. But I did have the kids make small matchbooks for each of the 6 animal groups. We cut up some old coloring books and the kids glued an example of each animal group on the outside and then they listed some other examples next to the matchbook. Inside, we listed the characteristics of each group (warm or cold-blooded? vertebrate or invertebrate? live birth or eggs?, etc.). We also included information on food chains, the different types of bird beaks and feet, 3 body parts of an insect, butterflies vs. moths, etc. There was lots of great information in the workbook and this was more of a review for us as we did a fairly in-depth study of animals for about 3-4 months last year.

For the Explorer unit, we will do maps of the different routes and color key them again(like we did the information on the Indians) to information sheets about each explorer. That's all I have planned at this point. My neighbor did a study on explorers last year and her daughter did an information wheel about the explorers and made Balboa's minit book in the shape of a barrel since he stowed away on a ship in a barrel!

Hope this helps. When we get done, I'll have my dh take some pictures and I'll post them at the Yahoo site in the photos section!

Kris

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Re: Ok, here's a brief description ... -- krisj, 13:56:09 09/16/02 Mon
- I make my own lapbooks ... here's how! -- Kris in TN, 04:35:00 09/17/02 Tue
  - Re: I make my own lapbooks ... here's how! -- Michaela (what they brought in a covered wagon), 11:47:51 09/25/06 Mon