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Spring Units

Strawberries

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." --William Butler

Strawberries are the very first spring fruit, and since our field trip group is going strawberry picking this month, we needed a lapbook. We hope you enjoy it too. There are three choices for a lapbook or notebook cover. We have two for an older child and one Strawberry Short Cake for little girls OR a big girl who LOVES Strawberry Short Cake..ROFL :o)

Too, here are some fun links:

Strawberryville

Strawberry Fun Facts

Cover 1 Strawberry Shortcake Cover

Cover 2

This is the layout for the lapbook. This is just one way. Feel free to use the whole thing, or part of it. Too, the layout was designed for a letter size file folder or cardstock made letter size.

LAPBOOK LAYOUT

Seeds flip book and petal fact book.

Strawberry Color or Strawberry with place for Photo

Please Note: We tweaked this part of the lapbook for you. When we make our lapbooks, we make them for our co-op. So the big strawberry at the bottom of our lapbook was for a photo of us in the strawberry field. Instead of using that at the bottom of your lapbook, you can substitute coloring this strawberry. Too, some of our members wrote out recipes and added that.

Here is a Cherokee tale from the public domain on the orgian of strawberries that we enjoyed reading.

ORIGIN OF STRAWBERRIES

When the world was new, there was one man and one woman. They were happy; then they quarreled. At last the woman left the man and began to walk away toward the Sunland, the Eastland. The man followed. He felt sorry, but the woman walked straight on. She did not look back.

Then Sun, the great Apportioner, was sorry for the man. He said,

“Are you still angry with your wife?”

The man said, “No.”

Sun said, “Would you like to have her come back to you?”

“Yes,” said the man.

So Sun made a great patch of huckleberries which he placed in front of the woman’s trail. She passed them without paying any attention to them. Then Sun made a clump of blackberry bushes and put those in front of her trail. The woman walked on. Then Sun created beautiful service-berry bushes which stood beside the trail. Still the woman walked on.

So Sun made other fruits and berries. But the woman did not look at them.

Then Sun created a patch of beautiful ripe strawberries. They were the first strawberries. When the woman saw those, she stopped to gather a few. As she gathered them, she turned her face toward the west. Then she remembered the man. She turned to the Sunland but could not go on. She could not go any further.

Then the woman picked some of the strawberries and started back on her trail, away from the Sunland. So her husband met her, and they went back together.

We left both of the strawberries here so you can make the choice, use the photo, color or something else of your design.

Pocket with food pictures

Strawberry Life Cycle Strawberry Triva Book

Strawberry Notebook Pages

Strawberry Facts Strawberry Facts B&W

Strawberry Border Strawberry Foods

Look at this field of bluebonnets that we have to pass on the way to pick strawberries. The blue bonnets and indian paintbrushes (I think you can see one lone one in the second picture in the midst of these bluebonnets) bloom in April each year and just blanket the ground in purple..

Pictures of our field trip to the Strawberry Fields

Honestly, we are not sure if we could possibly eat all that we picked..lol

The kids and moms couldn't decide which row to be pick on.They all looked good. But you could tell we "did our job" because so many of them are picked.

Turdus Migratorius

commonly known as the North American Robin

When you think of spring with all the beautiful colors, buzzing honey bees and sounds of birds—one sound familiar to you if you live in North America is the cheery song of the American Robin, sometimes called the North American Robin.

Also known as “robin red breast”, the American Robin is one of the most recognized birds in North America. However, it’s breast is actually a warm orange-reddish color which is immediately noticeable. Why then is it called “robin red breast”? It has been noted that early English colonist named this thrush after the robin red breast of their native homeland, England .

One of the more unique facts about the American Robin is it’s ability to live in just about any type of habitat from mountain forests to wilderness in Alaska.

Note to parent : This lapbook was designed with middle to high school level students in mind as an introduction to the Turdus Migratorius—but can easily be adapted for the younger student. Options have been added beside each minit book where needed to aid in teaching a younger child. In addition, links have been placed throughout the pages for your convenience and easy of learning.

Note to student: This lapbook can easily be done on your own. It was created to give you an introduction to the Turdus Migratorius. Either before or sometime during your preparation of this information, do not forget to go here to listen to the American Robin’s beautiful voice.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/id

A cover has been made for your lapbook or notebook page. However, if you prefer, you can sketch your own bird to use as a cover.

Go here to learn how to sketch a robin: (And I’m sure you have heard this over and over, be sure your parent knows you are on the internet.)

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a0374cc6914d2a14c9cc

The link above is to Teacher Tube and uses your computer drawing program to draw and paint your own robin. It is a very easy picture of a robin, so a younger child could follow the instructions too.

Lapbook layout (letter size )

Download whole lapbook here and three notebook pages.

This download includes the following mini books...two more notebook pages have been added at the end of the page. Click on the live link at the bottom to download the rest of the notebook pages.

Happy Spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cover

Vocabulary - Older Vocabulary - younger

Vocabulary Words older http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Turdus_migratorius.html

(Tip click on the magnifying glass on the above site to read the definitions)

Label the Turdus Migratorius

Life Cycle Cards and Pocket Study of Flight mini book

Study of Flight. Go here to learn about the mechanics of flying: (Younger: Draw the wings outspread ready for flight)

http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Animals/intermediate/birds-01.html

Geographic Range Map label Identification cards

What's on the Habitat Predators

the Menu?

layer book

Notebook Pages

Download here

Take a look at these beautiful pics taken by Ray at EverAfterImages in Austin. They are just breath taken and the ones on his site are so sharp and beautiful... I could hardly even bring myself to resize them to fit here on the site to share with you. Thank you Ray! Too, keep in mind all pics on our site we ask permission for and when you right click and take pics w/out permission, this takes away person's livelihood. So enjoy here and as we get permission, we pass that on to you.

I hope they are not too big on your screen, again we just couldn't bring ourselves to make them any smaller...They are all taken here in Texas.