Lapbooks and Foldables - Feelings

In this lesson, we talked about different feelings. 

- pocket and slips: the students wrote the comprehension questions and asnwers.

- faces: I dictated the feelings for the students to write the words down and illustrate the faces, giving me the chance to identify which words the students had problems spelling correctly.

Lapbooks and Foldables - Past Activities

My students made a lapbook for this theme, using the following foldables:

- pentagon petals: the students wrote the comprehension questions and answers.

- shutterflap 6 areas: they used each flap to write about where they were, using different time expressions.

Lapbooks and Foldables - Free-time Activities

This lapbook is about free-time activities. It uses the following foldables:

- quilt book (orange and purple): the students write the following verbs on each triangle: love, like, prefer, don't like. Inside each one, they write the activities accordingly.

- venn diagram (white): the students classify the activities according to indoor / outdoor / both.

Lapbooks and Foldables - Sports

Here is the lapbook my group is working on to write about sports.
The foldables are:

- tab (white): the students write about the most popular sports in Brazil and in the U.S.A., as well as about their favorite sports.

- accordion booklet (redand white): the students complete the sentences, identifying the sports depicted in the pictures, and contrast between the use of present and present continuous.

Lapbooks and Foldables - The Weather

This lapbook focuses on the weather vocabulary and what people are doing.
The foldables I use are:

- window booklet (orange): the students write "What's s/he doing?" on the front window, choose a picture cut-out, glue it to the inside of the booklet, and write a sentence describing what the person is doing.

- envelope (green): the students use slips to write comprehension questions and the answers and keep them inside the envelope.

- wheel booklet (yellow): the students write "What's the weather like?" in the outside circle, color and cut-out the weather symbols, glue them to the big window (inner circle), and write the kind of weather in the small window.

Lapboobs and Foldables - Places in Town

This project is about "places in town".

Here are the foldables the students use:

- stand-up city: the students color and cut out the city printouts from www.madebyjoel.com. They then glue the cut-outs to the lapbook. Students present their projects and tell their peers about the different locations of the places. Peers also ask the presenter questions, e.g. Excuse me, where's the hotel? Is there a drugstore near here?

- booklet: the students write and answer the 3 comprehension questions.

- flaps: the students write 7 place words (one on each flap) and 2 items that can be bought/found there.

Lapbooks and Foldables - Food

Another project is about "food".

Here are the foldables for this project:

- layered booklet - the students write their meals planning for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

- tags - the students write what food there is and there isn't on the table as the teacher projects a picture.

- recipe card - the students write a favorite recipe.

- folder pockets - the students write the food words, color the pictures, and classify them according to their colors (brown, red, yellow/orange, and white).

 

 

Lapbooks and Foldables

I started a new project with my students (9-10 year olds) with foldables, using lapbooks according to the topics of our lessons. The students are so engaged and productive. I'll post their projects as our classes progress.
Dinah Zike points out that foldables are interactive graphic organizers that can help students organize, remember, review, and learn many kinds of information.
Lora Drum justifies the importance of foldables as a fun, motivating, hands-on approach to learning, a study guide that helps students organize and retain information, and a type of alternative assessment. She suggests that foldables be used to introduce new vocabulary and topic, before, during, and after a lesson, as well as to promote writing skills. 

Our 1st lapbook project:

The topic is related to "abilities". 

I chose the following foldables: 

- 3/4 booklet (pink) - the students classified 3 different activity types: physical, creative, and practical.

- side pocket (yellow) - the students use this pocket to insert 3 slips, one for each comprehension question.

- flaps (orange) - the students use each flap write about a charity event.

- matchbook (tan) - the students write what they can and can't do.

- KWL grid - the students first write 5 words related to abilities and 3 words they want to learn. Before the class finishes, they write 3 new words they learned.

You can find the templates on: www.homeschoolshare.com

First Day of Class Treat

I gave my students this Angry Bird clip for them to mark the homework assignment. 

I punched 2 large red circles (body), one large white circle (chest), two small white circles (eyes), two very small black circles (eyes), one small yellow heart (beak), one black flower (tail and eyebrows), and one red flower (top feather). Finally, I stamped the word homework and glued it to a large clip.

The students were delighted, asking for the assignment so that they could clip it. Believe me.

My Favorite Zoo Animals

Students make this booklet to create a zoo environment for their favorite wild animals. The animals are put into cages.

Here are the steps for this pop-up book:

1. Fold three pieces of paper in half and cut nine slits down from the fold.

2. Push the cut area through the fold and crease it to form a pop-up section.

3. Make the other pop-up pages and glue their back to another folded sheet with a different color for contrast.

4. Draw three different zoo animals, cut them out, and put them into their respective cages. Write sentences to say why you like those animals, for instance, I like monkeys because they're funny. They have long arms.