Lately there were too many activities and festivals around us,
so I decided to do something simpler for our geography unit,
The Indian Subcontinent.
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Instead of a lapbook with all the minibooks in it,
I made an altered book with notebooking in it.
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It was once a picture book XP read when she was a toddler,
I chose it because of its hardcover
and was excellent to make into an altered book.
I wrapped it with coloured paper,
cut out and pasted some pages.
This is how it looks from the side.
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The cover of the altered book.
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Pages on flags.
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On the left is the map,
below it and on the right are some notes about the land.
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Map, the base.
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Map on rivers, seas and monsoon winds.
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Map on cities and islands.
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Map showing the different landscapes.
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Map, the countries.
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Every time when we came across a place,
for example Sundarbans (shown below)
XP is expected to write down the important point
and mark the place on the map.
. We did this throughout the whole unit,it was very easy and time saving.
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On the left is the time-difference between Malaysia and India,
below it is the general facts of India.
On the right is the Caste System in India,
XP wrote down some famous people (who we read and knew)
according to their Caste.
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On the left are the general facts of The Indian Subcontinent countries.
On the right are either new vocabs XP learned or some Indian languages.
We also wrote down the vocabs along the way,
most of them were from the readers.
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Yes!! We read a lot of biographies, here are 3 of them.
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Biography of Gandhi.
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Biography of the Buddha.
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Biography of Mother Teresa.
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We didn't cook anything for this unit
since it's very easy to find Indian food here in Malaysia
(actually we eat Indian food for breakfast almost every morning).
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One main reason I made this an altered book
was because I wanted to put spices into it,
and to do this I need a strong and thick book.
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The spices are packed in 9 small plastic bags
and put on the last page of this book.
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They are stuck to the book with magnets.
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This is the front where you can see the spice clearly.
.And this is the back with the name of the spice.
The plastic bags are resealable, so XP can open them anytime to smell them.
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There are coriandar, clover, cumin, cardamom, mustard,
black pepper & white pepper, cinnamon, aniseed and star anise.
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Here are 2 more pictures of them.
