Insect Lapbook (3 manila file folders, brad, paper, glue, packing tape)

• Take two folders and place one file folder inside the other
• Take the 3^rd and cut it so the bottom expanding sections act as an attachment and place on the outside of the first 2 (so short side is on front of book and the full page is an extra page at the end of the book).  Save the leftover piece to make a lift-up page later.
• Open and staple in the middle, close book and glue/tape the front flap to the front of the file book
• Open last page of book (should be extra page) and staple in http://www.nickjr.com/home/member_specials/printables/printable_packs/memb_miss_riddle_book.jhtml
• Close book so back is up, cover staple ends with packing tape

Cover: Color by Number (Dover Sample) http://www.doverpublications.com/sampler4/  

Site allows you to sign-up for samples – you can use anything for your cover.

Inside Left Page

• Insect Body Lift a Flap Book: http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/aqua/apis/biocontrol/html/insect_b.html inside uses text cut and pasted from this site
• Characteristic of Insects booklet: pg 4 of http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks/printables/insects_lapbook_templates.pdf  we just wrote stuff inside like exoskeleton, usually at least one pare of wings, and an easy matching chart that he could do: 3 -- body parts, 2 -- antennae, 6 -- jointed legs
  
• Life Cycle book www.kidfish.bc.ca/images/insect_life_cycle.jpg  followed by www.EnchantedLearning.com Life Cycle pages for Darkling Beetle and Mosquito then www.kidfish.bc.ca/images/damselfly_life_cycle.jpg  followed by printed graphics to make 2 pages from these sites http://www.vtaide.com/png/cockroach.htm and http://www.earthsbirthday.org/PDF/LifeCycle.pdf you’ll need to cut and paste then write some info. to make a full page (we shrunk the image of the adult Praying Mantis to be the nymph and then said in the label it was brown with no wings and under the adult said it was green with wings.

 Inside Right Page

• http://www.kizclub.com/craft/insectsbook.pdf
• Exoskeleton book: we copied a picture from the encyclopedia that showed a grasshopper and it’s old exoskeleton then described the picture on the inside and pasted the definition from http://dictionary.reference.com
• http://www.kizclub.com/craft/insectsbox.pdf  I printed the bugs only on cardstock than colored and cut them out – gave DS a bug net and threw the bugs in the air until he caught them then “mounted” them to his lapbook (winter alternative to outdoor bug hunt)
  

Page 3: Ant

Made a pocket with http://www.enchantedlearning.com/agifs/Antlifecycle_bw.GIF for

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/ant/sequencing/seqcards.GIF

Info. Sheet: http://daniellesplace.com/Images2/antnumbers.gif

Mini Books and Assembly Instructions:

http://daniellesplace.com/Images15/CountingAntsBook.gif

http://daniellesplace.com/Images15/CountingAntsBook2.gif

http://daniellesplace.com/html/PrintingInstructions.html#assembly

http://daniellesplace.com/Images15/AntIttyBittyBook.gif

http://daniellesplace.com/Images15/AntIttyBittyBook2.gif

Page 4 and Lift-up Page: Ladybug and Eric Carle’s The Grouchy Ladybug

Eric Carle’s The Grouchy Ladybug layer book

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/documents/grouchy_ladybug/layer_book.pdf

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/documents/grouchy_ladybug/pictures_clocks.pdf

Life cycle lift-book/pocket

http://www.geocities.com/sseagraves/ladybuglifecycleworksheet.pdf as lifting flap

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/ladybug/sequencing/ in pocket under flap

Match a Ladybug pocket: Numerals to Dot Patterns on Ladybug Cards (My creation printed on red paper)

Lift up page (leftover from the page added to the back of the book):

Ladybug Clock on top, add brad before pasting Ladybug Lore on bottom of lift-up page so it covers the brad. I printed the clock twice: once on cardstock for the hands and once on red colored paper for the clock part.  http://www.vickiblackwell.com/ladybugclock.pdf

http://www.geocities.com/sseagraves/ladybuglore.htm

Bee

http://www.first-school.ws/t/craft/bee_b.htm color, cut, and glue bee (glue directly to folder)

http://www.coloringcastle.com/pdfs/bumblebees/beehive02.pdf  print on yellow paper for cover

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/insects/printable/43165.html 2 page of bee book

http://www.learningpage.com/pages/memberpdfs/kindergarten/gksci05/gkisci16.pdf 3rd page

Draw three flowers of various size to take up one piece of paper, write one number in each center then child can glue the appropriate number of bees on each flower.  Bees from http://www.daniellesplace.com/images/beepinatapat_copy.gif 4th page http://www.learningpage.com/pages/memberpdfs/monthly_sets/spring_fun/creepyapril/lpsf7cc_02.pdf  5^th page

Worm

Labeled external diagram of worm http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca/16cm05/16labman05/lb6pg2_files/EarthwormAnatomy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca/16cm05/16labman05/lb6pg2.htm&h=600&w=538&sz=132&tbnid=ryTadFqpJbYLTM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dearthworm%26um%3D1&start=2&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2

coloring page http://www.first-school.ws/t/cp_animals/earth-worm.htm

Spider

http://www.nellieedge.com/pdf/muffet.pdf in pocket/bag with Itsy Bitsy Spider Pieces

http://www.kizclub.com/rhymes/spider.pdf Itsy Bitsy Spider Pieces in pocket under Miss Spider’s Riddles

http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/spiders/images/aboutspiders.gif  info.

http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/spiders/ws3.htm

Are Spiders Insects? booklet: pg 4 of http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks/printables/insects_lapbook_templates.pdf we just wrote stuff inside with matching that he could do