M's Teeth Lapbook

Here is M's lapbook.




In the second photo are printouts from enchanted learning. The top left is a filled in diagram of the parts of the tooth, and next to it is the same one (blank) which she filled in. Below that is the glossary for those tooth parts.

The last photo shows the extension with cut out and glued pictures of 'Things Good For Teeth' (above), and 'Things Bad For Teeth' (below).

On the right flap there are cut out and glued pictures of 'Good Teeth' (above), and 'Bad Teeth' (below).

B's Bat Lapbook

Here are some of what my little ones have been working on the past couple of weeks. B. (ds,8) wanted to study bats, and since M. (dd,6) recently lost 2 more teeth, she wanted to study that subject. How could we tackle those while having fun, using great creativity, and applying the knowledge on our own terms? Why, with lapbooks of course!





Above is the cover of B's 'All About Bats'. He drew a bat at the top, but it's kind of hard to see. Next is a look at it opened.
1) The purple is a flap book with 3 sections. On the top of each is the begining of a joke, and underneath is the punch line.

2)The yellow is an accordian fold expansion that opens up to 35 in. so he will have space to add more things (colored photos, etc.) as time goes on. So far he has a small crossword that we laminated so that it can be filled in over and over with a dry erase marker or Indian wax pencil.

3) Under that is an origami bat he folded. The 2 front flaps will open to a few physical facts (ie., has fangs, nocturnal), and then those pulled upward will expose the inside back of the bat where he will draw the lungs and heart.

4) Below that is a blank diagram printout from enchanted learning that he filled in.

5) The pink will be for his bibliography- all the places he found the information he used.

6) The dark green with the mounted white opens up to a 'pop-up' bat printout, and has a pull tab with the names of various types of bats.

7) Under that is an orange 'Bat Facts' pocket with pullout note cards.


8) The white on the top right hand corner is a flip book of food bats eat. Each page has a photo of each food written.

9) The last thing he has so far is a drawing of what a bat's lungs and heart looks like.

B's Book Review:
Outside and Inside Bats
by Sandra Markle
"This is cool because it has a vampire bat sucking blood from a bird's foot. I like the colorful and real-life photos because they show the kidneys, stomach, intestines, lungs, and heart. I think you should get this book."

Bat
by Caroline Arnold, photos by Richard Hewett
"I like this book, too. It has a photo of a little brown bat's skeleton, and says there are more than 950 species of bats today. I really think you should get this book, too because it has really good facts."

Bats: Shadows in the Night
by Diane Ackerman, photos byMerlin Tuttle
"I think this is the best book! It says that the flying fox's wings can stretch out 6 ft. wide. That's as tall as my father!!!!!!!!

The Magic School Bus: Going Batty- A Book About Bats
by Scholastic
"In this book I like the cartoon looking pictures better than the real photos in the other books. I like when the people and the bus turn into bats. This one came on t.v., and I like it better because it shows everything happening. I think you should get the book and the video."

Nice article

I just read this article about the growing number of African American homeschoolers. Check it out.
http://www.sfgate. com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi? file=/c/a/ 2006/09/25/ MNGLCLC58S1. DTL

Ramadan is here!

Yes, it's Ramadan, our holy month; I can hardly believe it's been a year!

There's much the children and I plan to do, and of course that includes cool projects. One is about the Kaba. The Kaba is THE masjid (house of worship): built by Abraham and Ismael, the direction which all Muslims pray towards at least 5 times a day, and millions make pilgrimage to every year. This project will use an empty orange juice or soy milk container mounted on cardboard (or something of that weight), and the information will be given in the form of various folded manipulatives.

Another project will be a Fast of Ramadan lapbook (Oh, how we love our lapbooks!). This one will feature the meaning of the fast and why we do it in this month, recipes for suhur (early morning breakfast) and iftaar (dinner/ the breaking of the fast), other obligations during this month, etc.

I don't know what else we will be doing as of yet, but I'll more than likely let you know (wink).
Also, I'll be posting pictures soon for these, as well as other projects and events, so check back.

Peace.

Finally...

we made it to the Montaclair Library's homeschool meeting today. I've known about it for a couple of years, but have never been able to get there. Our restauarnt is closed this week though, so I jumped on it; so glad we did.

Everyone was so friendly. Even the children seemed nice. My daughter was quite shy initially, but the girls really invited her in, so after awhile she joined and had a great time. My boys were a little different: they mingled a little, but due to shyness decided to stay together rather than totally get out there. That's o-kay though. All things in their own good time. They still liked it, and asked when the next one would be. I sure hope we can make it...
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I know I've been away for quite awhile, but I do plan on posting much more, as well as adding cool,informative links. Check back often.