Since we have been reading The Magic Tree House books as our read-alouds this year, I try to incorporate some of what we read into unit study, if we have time. We seldom end up doing a lapbook. But, while reading Tigers at Twilight, I decided it might be fun to study tigers and large cats - especially after coming off Andy and the Lion last week, our co-op book. Since homeschoolshare had a lapbook on tigers, we checked books out from the library and went for it! Here is the result:
Inside some of the books:
Above from Nicolas's book. Below from Alex's book:
The boys got a magazine subscription to Ranger Rick from their aunt for Christmas. We got our current issue on Thursday of our tiger week - and the cover story was on tigers! The boys spent the afternoons after studying tigers, playing tigers. They walked around on all fours growling and play fighting like big cats would do.
It was sad to learn how endangered the animals are and seeing how few there are left in the wild. Also, we saw a couple pictures of tigers that are now extinct. How sad!
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