Theme Pockets - July

We all know kids love to stuff their pockets with neat things. Now, with our new How to Make Books with Pockets Series, they'll have a book they created themselves, with plenty of pockets to stuff with all sorts of neat "discoveries."

Each volume contains complete instructions and materials to make three different books with pockets, based on a topic pertinent to the month, and utilizing items and information you have readily available.

The three topics for July and examples of the activities that go in the pockets:

America, the Beautiful: glittering fireworks displayed with cinquain verse, "Things Weren't Always Like This" minibook, "Coming to America" shape book, Statue of Liberty cut paper project, a special "America, the Beautiful" songbook

Space: Planets flip book; comets, asteroids, and meteors minibook on a ring, sponge-painted sun, rocket mitt puppet, astronaut in space art project, rocket shape book

Transportation: transportation riddles, wheeled vehicles report, sailboat shape poems, submarine shape book, make and test fly a paper airplane

Lessons include colorful art projects, creative writing, nonfiction writing, science, informational reading and writing, and literature. You get reproducibles galore -- minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included. All 96 pages perforated for easy removal. Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.