Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Whale Lapbook
The last lapbook we did took us several weeks. We didn't work on it constantly or we could have finished sooner. Whales was a subject that Cameron choose.
Cover:
Cameron like the blue paper with circles. It came out of one his presents that he got for his birthday and said that it would go great in his Whale lapbook. LOL
Back cover:
It has
- "Books We Read About Whales" (I checked out every last book the library had about whales, or so it seemed.)
- "Words to Know" a vocabulary list of words pertaining to whales.
- Baleen Whale "parts" that we got from Enchanted learning (Thanks Grandma!)
This is a double lapbook which means we took two file folders and glued them together for extra space.
On the inside flap:
We took a week to read through the book of Jonah and do this mini lesson. We got the printouts from Homeschool Helper. There were enough printouts here that we could have done an entire lapbook on just Jonah.
When you open the Jonah flap:
Along the right side are whale behavoirs. He drew a picture of each, wrote what it was on the inside flap and we also glued a short description of each behavoir.
In the middle is "Whale sizes" a neat little booklet that we put together. I cut out a bunch of paper blocks. They were equivelant to 5 feet.
Under that is our "Verses" game. Did you know that a whale is not a fish? Here is a game to help us understand the difference between the two and some characteristics that they share:
I got this from Enchanted Learning as well. It was a worksheet that you were supposed to take the list of characteristics and write them in proper spot. Instead, I glued that paper to heavier card stock, cut them out, made a ittle matchbook, and voila, instant game.
To the left of Whale Sizes and Verses we find our "Extreme Whales"
We cut out little circles and folded them into triangles. Each lip has the "question" and on the inside, Cameron write the answer. We had things like, the biggest animal God ever made: Blue whale, the longest tooth: narwhal, deepest diver: sperm.
When you open up extreme whales, you find the whales that we studied a little more closely.
He colored each whale and the map of where they can be found in the ocean. We got the pictures of the whales as well as the map from Enchanted Learning (thanks again Grandma!)
The coloring on the map to the right is very faint and is only areound the coast areas in the artic.
Beside our nine whales, we learned that there are two different types of whales. Toothed whales and baleen whales. Baleen whales do not have teeth but baleen that they use to strain their food. All the baleen whales are BIG and eat very small food.
He wrote the different names of the whales on the "teeth" or "baleen"
Here, also, is a video of our lapbook.
Comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - Awesome!!!
Posted by kympossible
Fantastic lapbook!!! Thanks for sharing all the pictures. Cameron did a super job.
Blessings,
Kym
Saturday, May 24, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by hugs4Him
That is really wonderful!! I'd love to try that with mine someday.
Saturday, May 24, 2008 - Hi C! From M
Posted by michael3
Hi C! Mummy and I just watched your video of your mummy talking about your whale lapbook. That was so cool! I really liked it! I liked everything the best! I asked mummy when can we make one! Have a great summer. Love your pen pal. M
Sunday, May 25, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Heather S.
That is terrific!! I am planning on attempting the Wordless Book lapbook this week. In fact, after I get off of the computer I'm going to go start a sample one. Since I've never done one, I feel the need to try it on my own first so I can be prepared! LOL
Tell Cameron I am very impressed with his work on the Whale Lapbook and all of the information he put in it!!
Sunday, June 1, 2008 - Whale Lapbook
Posted by Autumn
Hi,
I was surfing the internet tonight looking for items to complete our 10yo's whale lapbook and I found your site with your whale lapbook. I want to thank you so much for posting all that you did, it will so help me to help our 10yo finish his. You guys did a wonderful job and again Thanks for sharing.
Hugs,
Sheila
