BFIAR - The Big Green Pocketbook, Part 2

This is the lapbook and activities that we did for 'The Big Green Pocketbook'. We haven't finished all the activities yet, so we shall be adding more into this lapbook as we go along.

We had the day trip to Lamma Island and bought T her own 'pocketbook' to put her 'memories' in. Its been 2 weeks now and she still like this bag and brings it along when we go out on the weekends.






Identified the names of the things that the girl in the story had in her pocketbook. Show T what a real calendar looks like and explained its use. (but I don't think she understood).
Asked her to recall the things the girl had in her bag and let T put it into her 'paper' bag when she recalled them correctly.





Coloured scoops for ice cream and had lots of fun 'eating' them.
1. identify colours
2. count numbers
3. concept of addition and subtraction as we 'ate' the ice cream and 'refilled' the cone
4. proper manner, as we asked daddy and helper if they would like to have some ice cream






Coloured paper cut outs of a box of crayons. Tried to identify colours. T still cannot name colours. Also did these :

1. pairing the same colour
2. hide and find the crayons
3. counting the crayons



We identified some things that were green and painted them. I assisted her using the scissors to cut our the pictures and she pasted them in the book.


We can probably make a little pocket in this and continue to insert pictures of green coloured things as we find them in our daily activities.







Since there was so much green in this book, I got the idea teach T how to make green colour. We squeezed a blob for blue paint and yellow point into a ziplock bag and she squashed it all around and see how it gradually turns green (I think there was too much blue, cos our green turned out very dark)

We also went to the bank on a weekend and she got to see the bank teller counting the coins she saved.

I had the idea of bringing her to the laundrymat and asking the lady there to show her how the rotating clothes hanger works, but I haven't got round to doing that yet.

BFIAR - The Big Green Pocketbook

I think we are almost done with Jesse Bear and had to choose a second book to start. The second book in the manual was The Little Rabbit, but the story itself didn't interest me very much. I must admit that I do find it a little straining to try to be discipline and keep up the BFIAR homeschool work. In order to maintain my motivation, I needed a story that is more fun to read and play along. Therefore, I choose The Big Green Pocketbook. This story is about a little girl's day out with her mummy. T and I go out quite often. This is something that we can relate to and talk about. The girl in the story doesn't have a name, so I named her T. We enjoyed reading the book together and talked alot about her journey, all the places she visited and T was very interactive during our nightly reading sessions. I think I made the right choice to continue with this book as No. 2.

It so happened by coincident that we spotted a really cute handmade handbag in a little back alley shop on Lamma Island. I couldn't resist getting it for her. I hope her liking for this bag will last and it will be one that you can use for months (hopefully years) to come. So here is her own 'pocketbook', she happily carried it for the whole Lamma trip (as you would notice in the photos) and manage to store a few souveniours in her bag (just like the little girl in the story). We let her keep her boat ticket in the bag and I shall keep this ticket to include in her lapbook. We even visited a costume jewelry shop and she walked out with a little beaded ring (girl in story had a keychain).