Today we finished up our unit on the hydrosphere in Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space.We’ve been doing folderbook’s to go with each unit.They are like lapbook’s only we don’t refold the folder and three hole punch so it can clip right into their binders.I find for us they stay neater that way.Folded like a lapbook they don’t three hold punch or fit as well.
As you can see, these are very child directed.We use the templete pack from Hands of a Child and they really do it themselves.Most of the books we do look similar to this.This year we’ve got two planned that are “pre-done” the rest are their own creations.I kind of like it that way.It helps them learn to plan.Are they perfect? No, but that’s okay.
We didn’t get all the labs done with this unit.Two of them needed gravel and dirt(wrong time of year for that.)Thought I had some potting soil in the shed…guess not.Oh, well moving forward!
p.s. I just tried to place the link for the templete pack from Hands of a Child but apparently the site's not working right now. I'll try again later. It's at handsofachild.com if you want to try yourself.
What a great idea! We're making mini books to go along with our science right now and I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate them into a notebook and this is the best idea yet.
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We are half way done with unit 3 in Earth and SPace. I was wondering if you are going to do their physic book next year.or not. We are going to do the biology one for 2nd grade.
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