Sarah, Plain and Tall: Notebooking

R10 has been studying Sarah, Plain and Tall in Beyond FIAR. When her brother did this unit, he had a great time reading and reporting on all the creatures for his prairie and sea notebooks. E12 loves to do this sort of work. R10 not so much! So, to get her excited about researching all these critters, I gave her free creative reign on her notebooking. It's working! This is from the first chapter, so this is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.

We've done so much with state geography that I didn't really want repeats of the usual fair.

So, using an idea from one of the books she did a map with a window inside which she listed some facts about Maine.

I like what she came up with to tell about the three different kinds of rock

Inside the flaps...how fun is all that? Her pictures match what kind of rock it is too. Enlarge the picture and see a close up for yourself!

For the fish types, she made folded pages in the shape of the fish and then on the inside she shared facts about the particular species.

Ta- DA! Facts on flounder

Two of my favorite lapbooking/notebooking resources

Two more and I also have the Big Book of Social Studies.

She is steadily working on more pages as we continue on through the chapters. It's funny how the same book can be enjoyed for different reasons by two students. She loves the story itself, while E12 really liked all the animal and plant science he got to do. He would never bother with such nuisances as shapes and flaps!