Theme Pockets - December

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 December and examples of the activities that go in the pockets:

December Celebrations: information mini-posters, art and writing projects for Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa; make a luminaria, a menorah, a dreidel shape book, accordion-folded book of Christmas stories, 3-D Christmas tree, seven candles of Kwanzaa book, Kwanzaa placemat

Take It Home: behind this backpack cover are three pockets of fun projects for students to do during the winter vacation-daily journal, simple art projects, a word search, crossword puzzle, dot-to-dot, and more

When It's Winter: animals and people adapt to survive the cold, Who's Hibernating Here?, accordion-fold book, Arctic Animals flip book, monarch migration pull-through project, gray whale migration book, How We Stay Warm shape book

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.