"F" is for Ferdinand Lapbook

Bode enjoyed reading The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf for the letter F. Being that Bode is typically like the other bulls in the story, being a rough and tumble kind of boy with his two big brothers, it was nice for him to read the gentler side of life.

Lapbook Activity Resources:

Homeschool Share: The Story of Ferdinand lapbook templates

Homeschool Creations: Cut and paste, Do-a-dot

Enchanted Learning: Circle the F words, I can color F words

Beginning Reading: Circle F and f

Confessions of a Homeschooler: Handwriting Worksheet, F patterns

I forgot to take pictures of Bode while we worked on the lapbook, but here's the finished product.

 

Finished Lapbook:

 

"D" is for Duckling

Last week, Bode and I read Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey for our preschool time. Bode loved the book and the ducklings. We spent three days working on the activities because our other days were busy. But these activities could have easily been spread over four to five days.

Lapbook Resources:
Enchanted Learning: Circle 10 words, Matching words, I can color
Homeschool Creations: Cut and paste, Upper and lower case tracing, "D" is for duck
Homeschool Share: Words that begin with "D"
Beginning Reading: Circle the "D"s
Kiz Club: Duck lifecycle
Homeschool Share: Duckling lapbook pages

Bode during his activities:

Finished Product:

"C" is for Carrot

This week Bode and I read The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss and learned about the letter "C". We spent four days on it - reading the book each day and doing a few activities each day. Each day we probably spent about 20 minutes (more or less) reading and on these lapbook pages, which was perfect for Bode. Bode also planted cantaloupe seeds (we didn't have any carrot seeds), watering and checking the seeds each day (no growth yet).

The resources I used are from:

Homeschool Share - Carrot seed lapbook pages
Homeschool Creations - Tracing cards and Cut & Paste sheet
Enchanted Learning - Picture page, word match, and coloring page

Here's Bode, hard at work:

And the Finished Product:

"B" for Blueberry

Bode's letter of the week was "B" and our book was Blueberries for Sal. The idea of "rowing" this book came from Five in a Row. I still don't have the official Before Five in Row book, but I'm enjoying lapbooking with Bode just the same. There are a lot of great online resources.

Day 1:

I read the book aloud, which Bode was really into. It's a very cute book. Our first activity was to talk about the Favorite Foods of a Black Bear (activity from Homeschool Share). Bode cut out the food pictures and pasted them. Then Bode matched "B" words and their pictures and colored a letter "B" coloring page (worksheets from Enchanted Learning). Bode also traced his name, which of course starts with a "B". Then we made blue pancakes for lunch (with chocolate chips, of course).

Day 2:

We read the book together, and this time Cole sat in with us. Bode cut out pictures of things that start with "B" then pasted them onto a Bb page (activity from Homeschool Creations ). These cutting activities are great practice for him. He also played Blueberry Match, by matching upper and lower case letters on blueberry cards (activity from Homeschool Share ). Bode also did the I Can Color B Words worksheet (from Enchanted Learning), where he had to follow directions and color each B word picture with the appropriate color.

Day 3:

Today we simply went blueberry picking. Bode got to be Little Sal.

Day 4:

Bode finished up his "B" projects. We discussed why bears hibernate (from Homeschool Share ). Bode did Blueberry Math and cut and pasted Are You My Mother matches (from Homeschool Share ). He traced his upper and lower case Bb letters (from Homeschool Creations ). He also made a Rainbow Bb by tracing with the colors of the rainbow.

Finished Product: