"Very Last First Time" Lapbook

Aly has been using the Five in a Row curriculum this year. We read a book for 5 days (in a row) and do a variety of activities each day. One of the cool things we have added in this year is lapbooking. We take a big sheet of construction paper and make a booklet. We add the activities that we do for the week into the lapbook. We've done quite a few lapbooks already (and have quite a few waiting to be put together). This is the first I've gotten around to taking a picture of. One of the great things about homeschooling is learning right along with the kids. I learned some very cool things during this particular Five in a Row book. This lapbook is based on the book Very Last First Time. In the book a young Inuit girl goes with her mother to collect mussells for the first time on the sea floor under the ice. The book takes place in the Nunavut Territory of Canada. There is a specific area where once the bay is frozen over, the Inuit cut holes in the ice and when the tide is out, they drop down and walk on the sea floor under the ice to collect mussells. Awesome! I checked this out online and it is true. There are very, very few places where this is possible. Unfortunately, the site I found did not have pictures. So while reading this book, we studied first time experiences, the Inuit people and culture, tundra biomes, temperature, and tide pools. We spent two weeks on this book because there was just so much to read about. Here's the lapbook Aly made...

Front cover with mussells & a starfish.

The inside

We had so many little booklets that we had to add some underneath the bigger papers. Aly remembered what the Canadian flag looked like and told her Daddy when she saw it on Sportscenter :)

Aly's drawing of a polar bear with the Northern Lights. She used the Draw Write Now book for this.