Russia

Lapbook

·      Cover was a hand drawn work of art.

Russia lapbook front cover drawn by Katie

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Fully opened up lapbook - front

       Inside: flag & info on flag from enchanted learning.

·      Map from EHE answer key

·      Land regions cards – Katie filled in simple questions by looking at the World Book encyclopaedia.

·      Time zones thing – from India lapbook source.

·      “Famous Russians” cards by cutting out and filling in EHE p.110 “Russian Rulers”

·      “Russian Fast Facts: capital, population, language & currency – I made for her to fill in.

·      Recipes from internet: Piroshki (meat pasties) and Letnie Schi (Russian green soup) – both were delicious.

·      Russian ballet minibook – I suggested who should go in; she researched and did one page on each person – brief biography etc. Because she’s interested in ballet.

Art:

·      Drawing inspired by St.Basil’s Cathedral – from here: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2009/11/27/line-and-color-art-lessons-for-kids/

Katie loved working on this project, and the final result was really pleasing. (Laminated it and used as the back vcover of the lapbook.)

·      Saw this, after K had already done the front cover, but thought it looked fun: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/12/12/patterned-matryoshka-dolls/

·      Bought a Russian dolls for Katie to paint from Amazon. She spent hours on it, and the results were very pleasing.  Well worth the money we paid for them.

Russian dolls painted by Katie