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Sep. 13, 2008

Our First Lapbook - part 3 - Autumn 2007

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Okay - here is the reverse side of my DD's Thanksgiving lapbook (for the other side, see my previous post). On the front cover is a picture she colored of the Mayflower.

My DD's favorite colors are pink and purple, so autumn or not, she wanted to use those colors in her Thanksgiving lapbook (like I said before, she's a girly-girl). She traced the words for the title, though I wrote "Mayflower" on the ship, she chose the purple pen - she can't write that small yet.

Opening up both flaps you see the Pilgrim theme and a little bit about the First Thanksgiving and the Mayflower journey.

On the left hand side is a little map of the Mayflower crossing and a list of foods they may have had at the First Thanksgiving celebration. We compared that list with the foods we like to eat at our Thanksgiving meal. On the right hand side is a little page of Pilgrim & Indian math. DD cut the numbers out of a strip and after adding up the people in each equation, glued the correct number beside it. All the cutting and gluing on this side was done by my DD. I helped with layout though.

In the center are several pages about the pilgrims and their life in the new world (simplified for a 3.5 year old of course). On top is a rhyming story called "Pilgrim, Pilgrim".

Next is a coloring picture of what their village might have looked like. I'm not sure why she wanted everyone to have green hats, but there it is.

Last is a matching activity page about how the Indians taught the Pilgrims to use fish to fertilize the corn. She colored the fish pictures and cut them off a strip below the picture of corn. Then she had to match the quantity of fish in each picture with the numeral beneath each corn stalk and glue them on.

If you close the right flap you can see she decorated this side with leaf stickers and confetti. The big leaves were cut out of a page of clip art. The verse was at my place at my MOPS Thanksgiving meeting. DD loved the satiny ribbon, even if it was brown. We talked about how the leaves change color in the autumn and fall off the trees. This was the only way I could encourage DD to include some actual fall colors on this side of her lapbook. The girl loves pink and purple!

This concludes the posts about our first lapbooks created in autumn 2007. Since we made these a year ago, it was a challenge to find exact links for all the printables we used. I only used free sources. Since this was our first lapbook, I did not want to buy anything in case my children did not click with this project, not to mention that the things I wanted to include for DS's lapbook would probably not fit with a conventional kit. Mostly I did a google search for "thanksgiving" "mayflower" and "pilgrims" to find the pictures, graphics and examples of other lapbooks in this theme. Specific pages came from the following sites:

Thanksgiving lapbook idea from Little Blots
Writing practice sheets & coloring pages
"Pilgrim, Pilgrim" story booklet
Mini-books "I Am Thankful" & "Thanksgiving Colors" by Barbara Pratt from Pratts Educational Resources (sorry couldn't find the link again)
Mayflower journey map
"Fertilize the Corn" activity page

We had a lot of fun learning together and creating these lapbooks. I hope you enjoyed them and that perhaps they gave you some ideas to use with your children.

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