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Fall Unit

Lapbook

We love this time of the year! Here in Texas as least we have some leaves that change colors not to mention how wonderful spices and sweet potatoe pie smell! Look for our family recipe for sweet potato pie in the recipe section. We like it better than pumpkin pie.

We enjoyed doing this lapbook. Your child's thumb can be used for finger stamping leaves on the front cover and throughout the book. After he finishes finger stamping, outline the leaf or add some lines inside.

We have found by using scrapbook quality stamp pads, the ink is more vivid and last longer than regular finger paint

I used cardstock too instead of file folders. It seems that you get more color choices with cardstock.

Original Cover

Cover 1 Cover 2

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Pumpkin Book Cover

Pumpkin Life Cycle - Inside of book

Photosynthesis Wheel

Fall Months Book

This Farmer in the Dell Book is a little time consuming but after you get finished you can use it over and over again. I added a few more characters to help the younger children in our co-op work on memory skills and comprehension. This picture helps you to see the end product for the next three mini books. The hay page goes glued to the very back of your page and the pockets are folded and glued onto the hay. After you color your characters you can even put contact paper around them to preserve them.

My son colored these with scrapbook quality fine markers. He added in with Prisma map colors which are higher quality than regular map colors. The colors are more vivid with the markers. I guess we all like brighter colors :o)

Note: If you have an older child, this year look down further for "Know your leaves" mini book that fits in the same place as this Farmer in the Dell book

Farmer in the Dell Cover

Farmer in the Dell Inside Back

Farmer in the Dell - inside (pockets) (9.07.09Pdf fixed to add other two pockets.. Thanks Kelli)

Know your leaves 4 tab mini book

You can add in some science so your child gets familiar with the words hibernate and migrate. Sort the animals that hibernate or migrate to prepare for the winter months.

Migrate or Hibernate Book Cover

Migrate or Hibernate Inside of book

Note: If you have an older child this year, see the "Why do leaves change colors?" mini book to replace this one.

We did art by mixing the primary colors to see the secondary colors they made. It is so much more fun if they can mix the colors and then use their finger print to answer the questions. If not, I added the colors on a strip so they can cut and paste the answer to the question. Some kids just might not feel like getting messy today. lol

Leaf Book Cover

Leaf Book - Inside

Why do leaves change colors?

Fall would not be complete without studying about the busy little squirrels.

This is a picture of a Red Squirrel my sons liked.

Cut out the squirrel on the next two mini books and stick him inside this tree so he is ready for winter.

Squirrel Book Cover Squirrel Book - Inside

With all the variety in squash, I know the recipes can be endless at this time of the year. I guess that goes for apples too. But something we did not know is that promegranate is a fruit that is in season too during the fall. For us here in the U.S. the season starts around September or so and lasts for a few months into winter. So I added the promegrante to our bag full of fresh fruits and veggies.

Paper Bag Cover Paper Bag - Inside

Note: Also for a little older child, you can substitute this book for the paper bag or squirrel book.

What do we get from trees?

Outside mini book Inside view of how pockets fold.

Fact cards to be cut,memorized and placed in correct pockets.

Download all pages for tree book here.

Fall Poetry Copywork

Where do we put ours? A lot of times we place them on the back since they won't be cut through like they would be if you placed them on the front of the file folder. Then use clear packing tape to cover the whole page. You will have a nice well preserved spot of your child's work. Also you can place it on the side flap but folding the paper in half, glue only the part that will stick the page. Too, you can staple a ziploc to the inside of your lapbook and keep your work in there. Be sure to staple only the part that is attached to your lapook and not on the ridge where you need to open/close the bag.

We usually make our own copywork so that our child can draw his or her picture on it and so that they also see the original form without the dotted lines. Sometimes the dots and lines can be distracting. In addition, it is good for them to learn to go back and forth between the top and bottom to help train their eyes. So the blank box at the top is provided so they can draw a picture to illustrate their work or color/design if they want.