Thursday Throwdown: Mini-Books / Currently

Happy August!

(Where is summer going by the way? The school year doesn't go by this quickly!)

I'm linking up with:

for her Throwdown Thursday.




I've used these mini-books many times this summer and almost blogged about them-before I saw Erin's reminder :)

The kids love these books, and they are really easy to make. I first saw them at a workshop 6 or 7 years ago as a (very) young teacher. I've also seen them recently floating around.

First, start with a piece of paper.

 Fold it in half.

Turn 90 degrees and fold in half again

Turn 90 degrees and fold in half again

(Basically, you're folding it into 8 pieces :)

Open paper up so it is only folded in half (back to step number 2-but now with fold lines!)

You are going to cut that vertical line down to the fold

Open paper up and fold it so the cut line is on top

Now, you're going to push the two sides together so the paper lies flat

Now you just have to fold the pages down into book form!

Success!

Now you can have your kids create anything! It's an 8 page book (including front and back covers). I've had kids create mini-animal encyclopedias, a 'list' of favorite books, summarizing a longer book, etc.

I've most recently used them to have kids pick their favorite animal pairs from a book we read and draw and write about them.

I had them draw a picture and write at least one fact about why or how the animals were friends.

They were seriously into it!  I've never seen them so quiet. :)


August Currently:

Smiles and Sunshine,
Kaitlyn