Big Bag of Tricks

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Big Bag of Tricks
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Presenters

• Sarah JacksonInstructional SpecialistSarah429_at_ho
  me.com
• Linda PrichardInstructional SpecialistPrichardl_at_
  mail.rcs.k12.tn.us

• Shelia BrattonMiddle Schools CoordinatorBrattons
  _at_mail.rcs.k12.tn.us
• Elizabeth ChurchInstructional SpecialistChurche_at_
  mail.rcs.k12.tn.us

Rutherford County Schools 2240 Southpark
Blvd. Murfreesboro, TN 37128 615-893-5812
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Ziploc Books

• Seal at Open end
• Leaf collection
• Other collections
• Things you dont want removed or handled

• Seal at Closed end
• Photo album with captions.
• Manipulatives for math problems, patterns, etc.
• Samples and instructions.

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Envelope Books
What is black white and red all over?

• Staple ends together
• Make student versions of The Jolly Postman.
• Create vocabulary lists for over used words.
• Leave flaps open to create a book of houses.

• Make riddle books
• Make question/answer books (questions outside,
  answers inside)
• Adjective books -- descriptions outside, pictures
  inside.

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Paper Bag Books
libro
book

• Seal at Open end
• Use flap at bottom to cover
• Photos/Pictures
• Letters
• Math answers
• English translation for Foreign language words

• Seal at Closed end
• Leave bag open to put inside
• Feelie objects
• Pictures with peek-a-boo flaps
• Manipulatives for math problems

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Other Baggie Books
March

• Manila Envelopes
• Use Book rings to put several together on the
  closed end.
• Great for portfolio collections for each student
  -- 1 envelope per month

• Gift Bag Books
• Cut out the sides and bottoms of a gift bag.
• Staple several sheets of paper inside.
• Carry with the handle for a book to go!

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Tri-a-ramas

• Start with a square piece of paper
• Make 2 taco folds so that a X is on the
  square
• Cut along one leg of the X to the center.
• Push the two legs together to form a pyramid.

• Use as a pyramid to illustrate things in sets of
  three -- water cycle, states of matter,
  beginning, middle, end
• Hang and dangle additional information or
  decoration from each side

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More Tri-a-ramas

• Turn the pyramid on its side and use as a
  diorama.
• Put four tri-a-ramas together to make a scene
  with 4 rooms.
• Glue the bottoms of two 4-tri-a-rama scenes
  together to make a 8 room diamond shaped
  tri-a-rama

• Use the quad tri-a-rama to illustrate scenes
  from a book
• Show a sequence of events
• Show 4 different books written by the same
  author.
• Create a biography or autobiography.

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Matchbook Books

• Fold a sheet of paper using a hamburger fold but
  have one side about one side about 1 longer.
• Fold up the 1 tab like a matchbook.
• Cut in half to make the book.
• Staple paper inside.

• Use as a board to display book reports or book
  reviews -- decorate outside to match book title
  -- put report inside
• Use for riddles or math problems.
• State or country study
• Shaped for subjects
• Hang on string for a field trip journal

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Quilt Books

• Start with a square piece of paper
• Fold it like a taco twice so the creases form a
  square.
• Refold like a taco and cut along the crease in
  the middle starting at the long, fold side. Stop
  about 1 from the tip.
• Refold and cut along the other crease in the same
  way.
• The cuts will form a X on the square

• Line the edges of the square with glue and place
  on a slightly larger square of construction paper
• Use for a word web
• Biography
• Who, What, When, Where
• Questions and answers
• Forms of poetry
• First, Second, Third, and Last

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Step Books (or Layered Books)

• Use 2 or more sheets of paper (different colors
  are best).
• Stack them and then move the individual pages
  apart about 1/2 - 1 (looks like stair steps)
• Fold so the steps continue and staple at the
  top.

• Use flaps down to
• Do a book report or study
• Present a Research project.
• Show fraction relations to whole
• Use for pre-writing management
• Show beginning, middle end.

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More Step Books

• Use flaps up to
• Cut individual flaps to shapes to study land
  forms or layers of the rainforest.
• Demonstrate the layers of the earth or atmosphere.

• Use flaps to the side to
• Show place value and decimals
• As a time line

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Burrito Book

• Cut away a narrow (about 1/8th) section of the
  fold in between the marks. You should have 1 of
  fold remaining on each edge.
• Open these to see a window cut in the middle of
  the papers.
• Roll up the first single sheet of paper into a
  long burrito fold and insert in the window.
• Let unroll and the slits should fit.
• Fold to make a book!

• Fold 1 sheet of paper in half like a hamburger.
• Open it and cut along the crease line about 1 on
  both sides of the crease.
• Take 3-5 different sheets of paper and fold them
  all at once like a hamburger. Crease well.
• Leave these closed. Mark about 1 from the edge
  along each side of the fold line.

Book
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Burrito Book Ideas

• Use burrito books for
• Math, science or reader response journals.
• Autograph books.
• Books with samples of forms of poetry.
• Student authored books.

• Notch the edges to make tabs and use as
• A dictionary for misspelled words.
• A list of sentence patterns.

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Mini Book

• Fold a sheet of paper in half 3 times using a
  hamburger fold each time.
• Unfold to the first fold and cut along the crease
  in the middle from the folded edge to the middle
  of the paper. ?

• Open the paper and refold in a hot dog fold.
• Hold the 2 ends and push toward the center. The
  cut part will separate.
• Push together and fold over into a small book.

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More Mini Books

• Slip a mini-book inside the middle of another
  mini book and then put a rubber band around the
  spine or staple or punch 2 holes and run a string
  through the holes. This makes a book with more
  pages.

• Use as an ABC book
• Reader response journal
• Field trip journal
• Novel study
• Cut into forms for shape books dont cut too
  much of the fold!

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Flip Books

• Fold a piece of paper with a hot dog fold.
• Cut 2 or more slits on the front piece to the
  fold line.
• Uses
• Venn Diagram
• Sequencing

• Who, What, When, Where, Why
• Write math facts
• Make a riddle book
• Show a timeline
• Senses Book
• KWL
• Cause Effect
• Beginning, Middle, End
• Cut in shapes for houses

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Sentence Strips

• Stack sentence strips and fold in the middle.
• Staple on the end and use as a book.
• OR use without folding for long sentences.
• OR tape strips together on the long sides for
  colorful, easy posters.

• Uses
• Poetry
• Phone Number poetry
• Class books
• Patterns to finish
• Counting books
• ABC books

Halloween Count
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Pop-up Books

• Fold paper like a hamburger.
• Cut pairs of slits on the fold side.
• Open and push the tabs to the inside. Crease.
• Make the original fold and crease.

• Use for greeting cards
• Use for book reports
• State and history reports
• Unit wrap ups
• People in my family
• ABC books
• Graphs

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Tri-fold Books

• Fold a piece of paper in half like a hamburger.
• Then fold up one side to the fold.
• You may cut it into shapes or leave as a
  rectangle.

• Science study of cells open to label parts
• State or country study
• Acrostic poem with face on outside
• Show what is under the ground
• Poetry and writing displays

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Stepping Stones

• Cut a variety of colors of construction paper
  into large stepping stone shapes.
• Write a book study question on each stone.
• Scatter the stones around the classroom.
• Have students choose a stone to stand on and
  answer that question about the book being read.

• Or write numbers on the stones.
• Students stand on a number and then answer the
  multiplication or addition problem to the number
  the teacher calls.
• Book topics author, illustrator, beginning,
  middle, end, voice, genre, characters, setting,
  etc.

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Bottles

• Serenity Bottles.
• Add about 2 teaspoons of corn syrup to a clean,
  dry, clear, plastic bottle.
• Add some glitter.
• Use as a time out bottle. They must color the
  whole bottle green before they may leave time
  out.

• Visual Discrimination.
• Cut head shot pictures of your class and put in
  the bottle. They pick out them selves.
• Put items in a bottle of items of a similar color
  for them to pick out.

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More Bottles

• Place magnetic and non-magnetic items in a bottle
  with confetti or paper strips. Tie a magnet to a
  string on the bottle. Children search for the
  magnetic items.
• Do a science experiment with dishwashing liquid.
  They check for amount of bubbles for each brand.

• Add confetti shapes to the serenity bottle for a
  visual discrimination or wheres Waldo type
  bottle.
• Place items in a bottle with water and have
  children write about what it is or how the
  different items could be related.

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References

• Alternatives to Worksheets by Karen Bauer
  Rosa Drew. CTP 3322
• The Book Shoppe by Dr. Jean Feldman
• The Bottle Book by Dr. Jean Feldman

• Teachin Cheap by Linda Holliman CTP 2335 ISBN
  1-57471-276-4
• Big Book of Books by Dinah Zike1-800-99-DINAH