Fish

Yesterday was all about fish for the girls. They spent the whole day working on these lapbooks. (We had begun them earlier in the week). These are Hands of a Child lapbooks on the cartoon film "Finding Nemo". Now, you might think that a lapbook based on a film is a total waste of time, but actually the girls have learnt a lot about the sea creatures of the Great Barrier Reef. In between making the mini books they ran away to play - fish games. I could hear them using the vocabulary they had been learning, talking about habitats, prey, having some fish being aware of predators, etc. So, in one way or another their whole day was spent on this topic.
For this lapbook Ia was able to do the reading in the mini books, so I just needed to tell her which bits to cut round, then she could assemble the books by herself. U needed more help of course, but she really improved her cutting out skills during this project, maashAllah.
This morning they did the colouring for the front covers.

Ia's above, U's below.

So, do you think that is all over now, time for a rest?

No. The glue had barely dried on the covers when I was being asked what the next lapbook could be about. In search of inspiration we popped out to the library, but didn't find a topic there. And NO books on fish of the coral reef, or any other fish. Hmm.

So back home I followed Umm Adam's tip about visiting Currclick, and they chose something on tigers, which they got started on right away.