Minibook for Burgess Animal book - Mountain Beaver

We are starting the Animal Burgess book now.
I  wanted to give a heads-up about pictures on shutterfly that someone posted.
The link is http://burgessanimals.shutterfly.com/

I also used the Master Template Minibook download (12 pages) .
The link for that is Minibook master-template-downloadfrom Pratical Pages

I had to open in Open Office so that I could change the sizes whenever I wanted. It took some manipulating but I finally got them so that they weren't on top of each other. If you open in Microsoft Word you shouldn't have a problem and with Adobe download they don't overlap but you can't change the sizes.

I am still new to much of the computer tech and don't think I will ever understand everything.
I pasted a snippet of the minibook for the Mountain Beaver. I couldn't figure out if/how I could attach it as a file.

I edited the picture in Picasso first so that I could type the name on it and didn't think about not being able to see it once I made it smaller after pasting it in Open Office. Like I said, I am still figuring out the computer programs capabilities .

Pray this gets some of your own ideas going.

Burgess Units 5-9 Pictures

Below, we have pictures of:
Unit 5: Sea Cucumber, 3-flap (large) w/cover mini-book
Unit 6: Squid report form and Mussel hotdog mini-book
Unit 7: Shrimp simple stapled mini-book
Unit 8: Worm & Eel notebook pages
Unit 9: Great Blue Heron notebook page, Plover file folder shaped mini-book, & Bittern hotdog mini-book

You can download templates for these mini-books at
Homeschoolshare, although sometimes I just free-hand the book based on what I see because I want it smaller or bigger or just don't want to waste paper.

Sea Cucumber Mini-book

Sea Cucumber (inside)

Squid report form & Mussel mini-book

Shrimp mini-book (cover)

Shrimp mini-book (inside)

Worm report form and Eel Notebook page

Plover mini-book, Great Blue Heron notebook page, & Bittern mini-book

Burgess Seashore Units 6-9

Whew! I am way behind. I won't have any pictures til a later date, but figured I could at least give you the basics for each unit done thus far.

Unit 6

Day 1  Chap 26    Barnacles   Narrate
Day 2  Chap 27    Squid          Narrate
Day 3  Chap 28    Squid          Mini-book
Day 4  Chap 29    Mussels      Mini-book
Day 5  HOD Bigger Unit7 Day 2 Experiment
            We made fossil impressions in clay with play animals. 
            Even the 3.5 yr old did this one. They really enjoyed this 
            simple experiment.

Details:

Day 4  http://library.thinkquest.org/J001418/mussel.html
            http://sites.google.com/site/carlalatkinson/musselpictures

Unit 7

Day 1  Chap 30   Shellfish         Narrate

Day 2  Chap 31   Moss; Dulse    Experiment; HOD Unit 4, Day 5

     How do fish and seaweed float?

We basically filled up a little bowl with water. Then we placed a medicine dropper (our was plastic and we have a bunch we use for art, crafts, painting, etc.) in the bowl, with it partially filled with water. Then we placed it with it filled with much water. Finally, we didn't put any water in it. This was showing how an air sac in seaweed works.

Day 3  Chap 32   Shrimp              Mini-book
Day 4  Chap 33   Big Surf Clam   Narrate
Day 5  Super Science Concoctions pg. 93, 102-103

Unit 8

Day 1  Chap 34  Worms   Notebook-report from
Day 2  Chap 35  Worms   Narrate
Day 3  Chap 36  Worms   Narrate
Day 4  Chap 37  Eels        Notebook
Day 5  Super Science Concoctions pg. 96-98

Unit 9

Day 1  Chap 38  Piping Plover   Mini-book
Day 2  Chap 39  Bittern              Mini-book
Day 3  Chap 40  Night Heron     Notebook (Draw Write Now pg.47)

Day 4  Chap 20 Pa Stickleback  Narrate

Day 5  Super Science Concoctions pg. 99-101

Unit 5 - Burgess Seashore

Day 1 - Chap 21 Jellyfish (Art, snack, youtube)
Day 2 - Chap 22 Sea Anemone (Report form)
Day 3 - Chap 24 & 25 Seahorse (Mini-book)
Day 4 - Chap 23 Sea Cucumber(Mini-book)
Day 5 - Super Science Concoctions (Pgs 85 -87) Mystery Marble

Day 1
SNACK - We made a jellyfish snack with grape jello and sour gummy worms. Make the jello according to package and then put in bowls. After they have jelled in refrigerator for 4 hours, carefully flip on plate (may have to use a butter knife to gentle pry from bowl). Then add some sour gummy worms for the jellyfishes' tentacles. We actually made this twice. Ya think I would have taken a picture at least once. Maybe we can have the snack again :). 
ART -We used markers to color on round coffee filters. Then we sprayed with water and let it dry. (It doesn't take long to dry at all if near a sunny window.) Then we (mom) cut strips of tissue paper and we stapled them around the ends of the coffee filter. My husband cut small squares from a cereal boxes to put underneath the jellyfish so that it would spread out more when we hung from the ceiling. We used a brad to fasten the square and ribbon to the coffee filter. Then we tacked it to the ceiling.
We also viewed some videos on you-tube. We especially liked the one from national geographic site for kids. Jellyfish info and video

Jellyfish

Day 2- Simple Report Form for Sea Anemone 
We got much of our info from this site Sea Anemone .

 

Sea Anemone

 Day 3 - We made a 4-flap mini-book with a cover for the Seahorse out of colored paper. My son drew a picture on white paper and glued it on the front cover.  We wrote 1 question on each of the flaps and then wrote the answer for each question under the flap.

Cover of mini-book

Inside with the questions showing on flaps

Flaps open to reveal the answers to the questions

Unit 4 - Burgess Seashore

Day 1 - Chap 15 Whelk (Shell Match), online, read about whelk
Day 2 - Super Science  Concoctions (Pg 82-84) Liquid Lasagna
Day 3 - Chap 16 Snail (Sandart)
Day 4 - Chap 17 Urchins & Sandollars (Drew picture)
Day 5 - Chap 18 Scallops (Notebook)

Day 1
We found a shell match worksheet and read a little extra online about whelks and other shells.

https://seashellsbymillhill.com/2011/05/22/match-the-seashells-printout-for-kids/

Day 3

Used template of snail from http://www.first-school.ws/t/cpsnail.htm. 
Printed on cardstock and glued each color (3 different colors) of sand after the previous color had dried. This way the colors didn't mix with each other. Cut out the snail after it was all dry. Glue snail on a background paper and draw a scene if you wish.

Day 5

Drew and labeled picture of scallop from September 2011's Ranger Rick magazine 2011, Page 17. 

At the moment, trying to locate the sea urchin drawing. I am also not so good at remember taking pictures during all our science experiments, but the directions in the book are good. 

Snail sand art

Scallop labeled

Scallop