Making our China Lapbooks

In Theme Studies we are learning all about China.  As a tool to help us organize our knowledge, we are making lapbooks.  In these lapbooks we will keep all the information we learn.

Today we began making our actual book using 1.5 file folders.  Each student received a regular sized file folder and opened it like a book.

Next they had to fold one side into meet the middle line.

Then they did the same with the other side.

The last step was to add an additional piece more the middle section.  Each student received another half of a file folder and needed to line it up with the top of the middle.  They then received packing tape to use to tape their sheet on so that it would fold up and down.  

This is what the finished lapbook looks like.

Next students began working on their cover pages.

We will be continuing to learn all about China over the next couple of weeks, and by the end of our study, our lapbooks will be full.  Next on the agenda is the geography of China.