Books as a Classroom Activity

You can make a book about a field trip or special event. Use a camera and take pictures throughout the day that show what you saw and did. Later in the week, have the children make a book about the trip on paper or on the computer. This can be an individual or group book.

Before the trip or event, talk about what you might see. Tell the children that they will be making a book of their trip. Throughout the day, have them help you choose what pictures to take that will tell a complete story of the event.

You can use a digital camera and then print out each picture. You can spread out all the pictures and talk about what you did first, next, etc. In other words, help them order the pictures in a sequence. In a group meeting, ask the children to dictate a sentence or two about each picture. Type their words into a word processing program such as MS Word. Later you can insert the correct pictures to make each page. You can ask each child to pick a favourite picture and to tell you what they liked about that part of the trip. So, for each picture you will have something that the group said and then, 'This is Mary Louise's favorite picture. She liked the seeing the dry fish hanging on the racks.'