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Moon Phase Booklet

This was a cute moon phases booklet that a teacher shared with me. She made it at a training and we were looking for the easiest way it could be done with her 80 fourth grade students (once we work it out I will post!).

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Jessica said…
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Lisa said…
I teach 4th grade in SC and have used sooo many of your great ideas this year. I always give you the credit and have pointed many to your blog! Thank you for taking the time to share with others. :)
Wow, this is great! Wish I had coome across this when we were doing moon phases a month or so ago. Going to bookmark it for next year!
Jennifer Cupit said…
Was wondering if you found an easy way to mass produce the books? LOVE the idea!
Eve Heaton said…
Jennifer - Sorry, not yet.I might take a look at it this summer to see how that might be done easily.

Eve
Unknown said…
I did it! I was thinking about it all summer, and finally put my brain to it.
I think what I am going to do, is trace my book onto tag board for a pattern. I am going to make a pattern for each table (so about 5 patterns for 20 students). I am then going to have each student trace each page onto a big piece of black paper (if the patterns don't fit, the students will have more paper. After everyone is done tracing and cutting, we will put them together as a whole class. Then the students can glue the words in separately. This is the only way that I have come up with mass producing it.
Anonymous said…
I am actually going to be making these with a 4th grade class on Friday. I am cutting all of the circles now and stapling the books together. It is not bad once you get it going. Thanks for the idea.

Charity

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