I’ve been so excited to dive right in with lapbooking now that I have a kindergartener once again. I used to use lapbooks for different holidays (President Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc) when my older children were young. It’s been a few years, but I’ve started again!!! This week, we put together a lapbook based on my daughters favorite book, “Harry the Dirty Dog” by Gene Zion. I listed our lesson plans and a link to gather your own template for different learning activities. I put together this short video of the lapbook we finished, if you need a visual. Follow this link if you can not view video on this website.
Our Lesson Plan:
Language Arts – We had the story read to my daughter by Betty White (http://www.storylineonline.net/harry/fullscreen_xl.html). This is a fun site where celebrities read stories to kids. After the video of the oral reading, we sat and re-read the story together. Pointing at each word and looking at the pictures, we were able to talk about the different words used to describe certain actions:
- Dashed
- Soundly
- Furiously
- Chute
We practiced writing our words that we learned and used our memories to recall details to the story (How did Harry get so dirty?) We used two different cut out activities and included them in our lapbook.
Social Studies: We learned the difference between pets and wild animals. We learned how to take care of them and the needs of people and pets. We looked through the story at all the different animals and picked out which ones would make good pets and those that would probably not make good pets (why?) We used a cut out for human needs and animal needs for our lapbook.
We also talked about making smart choices. We used “Harry” as an example for making a bad choice, then a good one (running away and then returning). We talked about how bad choices have consequences and how important it is to follow rules for safety. We used a cut out to show how Harry got so dirty in our lapbook.
Math: We counted outloud all the animals shown in the book. Then, we cut out a bunch of copied “Harry’s” and added them up. Using a counting book, we pasted the dogs and wrote down the total number.
There are many more activities that you could choose for your own lapbook. It’s completely up to you as to how you want it to look. My daughter loves to color with markers, so for Art I had her color with all her favorite colors the inside cover of the lapbook.
Here is another link that you can use to find templates for the cut out activities to include in your lapbooks: http://lapbooklessons.com/LapbookTemplates.html
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