When the tress started changing colors we did a study on leaves and trees with some friends.  I know it has taken me a while to load!!   I did use some of the ideas from Homeschool Share http://www.homeschoolshare.com/leaf_man.php. 

For the cover we crushed crayons and melted it between wax paper.  Then we traced leaves and cut the wax paper into shapes of leaves.  They were suppose to have a sample of an entire, toothed, and lobed leaf.

The next pictures is just a picture of their folder open.

On the left hand side we put our book for the leaf margins.  This book is the one open below.  We have a picture of a leaf with the parts labeled.  The bottom part with the flap up is a picture of the process of photosynthesis and a pressed leaf.  When we open the bottom flap you will see the paper they made.  Once they made the paper and it dried they cut it into the shape of a tree and wrote Psalm 1:3 on it.  The other side of the flap holds a matching game.  The pictures are of leaves that are named.  For example:  Eastern Cottonwood, Elm leaf, Elderberry,  Aspen, etc.

The next set of pictures will be from the right side of their folded.  On this side they have a tree trunk labeled, Voc words, Different types of trees:  Deciduous, Evergreen, Conifer, a tree obersvation log, and the poem The Road Not Taken. 

The last picture is the back cover.  They drew the trunk using their hand and arm.  The leaves are their hands.

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