Sorry about my absence, folks. It’s been a
whirlwind of a week here with history, literacy month, field trips, and upcoming
parent-teacher conferences. I don’t have a whole lot of time to post this, but
I really wanted to share these super awesome lapbooks that we started last week
for our unit on ancient civilizations. I got the idea here, and adapted it a
bit to meet the needs of my own classroom.
What I love about lapbooks and foldables is that
they are fun and engaging for even the most hesitant of learners. I find that
when you leave it up to them to be the researcher, you’ll be pleasantly surprised
at what stuff they come up with. Plus, these projects make for the perfect
lesson on summarization and being concise with language because there’s not a
lot of writing space available. This forces them to ask themselves essential
questions like Is this information relevant? and Is this information important?
In my class, we divided up the research into
categories- new vocabulary, daily life, religion, mummies, pyramids, geography,
Nile, hieroglyphics, and jobs. Then, we all took a category and went to work
researching and collecting data in our theme notebooks. Once we were done
researching, we came together as a class and shared our findings, being sure to
sift out the “meaty” bits that we’d copy into our lapbooks. We aren’t quite
finished with them yet, but they are really coming together nicely and I wanted
to share this small victoryJ
I hope you’re all enjoying your week. Check out the pictures below!
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