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My daughter and I have completed our 1st lapbook!  It was so fun!  She just turned 5 and has recently developed a interest in money, or  more specifically collecting money for the poor.  So I decided to exploit her interest and teach her a little about money.

Cover


To make her lapbook we used 3 folders.  One was trifolded and the other 2 were left half folded.  We placed the trifold folder on the right side flap of one of the folders and then glued the 3rd folder to the back of the trifold folder.  On the 1st folder we took a piece of cardstock and sewed 3 ziplock bags onto it making a little booklet.  Inside I got some worksheets about money from this website http://heartlandbank.com/discovery/activity.html We placed 2 worksheets in each ziploc bag (back to back) to make a total of 6 pages.  On the trifold folder we did a little worksheet on matching coins to there amounts.  We also put an actual coin next to each drawing of a coin and a dollar bill at the bottom. 

On the flaps we put poems and song I found online about money.  Here are the ones we used:

What I'v Got
5 pennies make a nickle
2 nickles make a dime
2 dimes and a nickel make a quarter everytime.
4 quarters make a dollar
and that is quite a lot.
And a dollar in my pocket
Is exactly what I'v got!

Piggy Bank (For this one my daughter drew a piggy bank to go with it.)
Don't Ask Dad...He never has any.
Grandma's purse has a nickel and a penny,
Mom has a 5, but the car needs gas.
Here's a dirty quarter I found in the grass!
Checked all our pockets...nothing but gum.
Piggy bank, piggy bank, here I come!

What's It Worth
Penny, penny
Easily spent,
Copper brown
And worth one cent.

Nickel, nickel
Thick and fat.
You're worth 5 cents
I know that!

Dime, dime
Little and thin,
I remember
You're worth ten.

Quarter, quarter
Big and bold,
You're worth twenty-five
I am told!

In the back folder we put copies of a 1, 5, 10 and 20 dollar bill.

It was sooooo much fun to make together and I know we will go back to this lapbook again and again to refresh her memory about money.

Inside flap #1


Ziploc Bag Book


Inside of trifold folder


Final folder with copies of bills


The coloring sheets we found for this project came from a really great site.  It is a search engine for coloring sheets.  It goes through 6992 coloring sheets to find what you are looking for.  All you do is put in a key word like "money".  It's awesome!  Here is the link:

Ivy's Coloring Page Search Engine

Well, that is our 1st attempt at lapbooking.  I don't know if we did it "right", but we sure had fun!