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Hi, all......
I am planning my wee fella's first rowing experience..........pretty much mine, too.
I have searched the archives for ideas........but could not find any.....
What have you done with this story?
Also......I expect we may do our first lapbook, too.
What would you put in a PING lapbook?
Of course, books are awaiting me at the library, already. 
I think I may include my other kids, too.........so they can learn to organize a lapbook.
Thanks!
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Chari,
What fun! Here are some Ping Ideas, including lapbooks pix.
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Chari, we notebooked Ping in a semi-lapbookish style using many of Elizabeth's ideas.
Some lapbook ideas at fiarcircle and Ami's site,homeschoolshare. Both of those sites have other great FIAR lapbook samples too. I'm so glad I stumbled across them! (Just in time for this coming year!)
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Chari,
Maybe this is too late to add to this thread, but I just found it and after looking through the fantastic info. on the sites above, I thought I'd throw my little bit o' stuff in too. 
We didn't do a lapbook but did a small "Scrapbook for Ping" instead, using bright yellow construc. paper and yarn to hold it together. (It was pretty basic but just right for us!)
Pg. 1 We used the diagram of a Pekin duck from Enchanted learning (greatly enlarged) to color and then cut out the description, affixing it to the same scrapbook page. At the bottom: (copywork for my 5yo) "Ping is a duck."
Pg.2 Ping's Family Tree (Math): We cut out a green tree canopy, (similar to the one we made for our family tree a few months ago) and put duck stickers down for each family member, writing 1 father, 1 mother, 1 Ping (below them and in between 3 brothers, 2 sisters). On the opposite page we practiced grouping by 10s and 1s with lines of 11 aunts, 7 uncles, 42 cousins. Copywork: "Ping has a big family!"
Pg.3 (Art) Watercolor painting inside of Mom's outline of wise-eyed boat. Copywork: "Ping lives on a boat."
Pg. 4 (Science) We looked up (online) what a duck's diet would include and printed out, cut and pasted real photos of what ducks eat, along with diet description. Narration/ Copywork:"Ping eats insects and frogs."
Kind-of a short scrapbook, but with little brothers involved and following rabbit trails, it fit us. When we rowed Ping, we sort of took Ping down an "All About Birds" rabbit trail for my little guys last year (then 5, 4 and 2). We followed FIAR and then just jumped off...
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Wow, Kristine, this is great! Thanks so much for sharing this! WE are just gettting ready to row Ping again next week!
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Yes, Kristine! Thanks! And, Elizabeth and Janette, too!
You were most definitely NOT too late, Kristine.....you were just in time!
We ROWED last month, just Ping.......and, thanks to our library, we had a great time. Now, I am going to go figure out tonight what to row next.......I am sure there will be a new thread for whatever it is.......unless I find it somewheres 'round here!
and, a public thank you to Robynn in Lancaster (lavendarfields) for lending all of the books I do not have already!
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I love the story of Ping because it is an amazing view of old China. In contrast, Jan Brett's Daisy Comes Home is a parallel view of new China. Perhaps the most poignant parallel is the "housing" arrangement. Where Ping lived with his family, Daisy lives in a coop with several unrelated hens.
To follow up and to extend the study to older kids, we read Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Homesick, China Homecoming, and listened to The Teaching Company's From Yao to Mao.
But Ping is still a favorite.
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MacBeth,
When you say "older kids", what ages were you referring to? I know this may sound crazy, but so often, I have thought of including my two oldest (ages 13 and 11) in our FIAR adventures - but then I get cold feet, thinking they are "too old". I still can't help but to think there is so much that the older ones could get out of FIAR enriched with extra titles like the ones you mentioned.
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Tea, my older two are high school aged, but I was thinking more of my "tweens," 10 and 12, for comparative Ping and Daisy (I did the same several years ago with the older two)...I don't really do FIAR, but we do some concentrated units, like China, and I must do them on several levels for everyone to be on the same page, so to speak.
I also believe firmly that picture books can be used for all levels, supplemented by real books, historical fiction, biographies and maps...at least, that's how I enjoy making ours a Real Learning home.
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I always include my older two in our FIAR studies too. We rowed Ping the spring before last, and my then 9 and 11 yos read the chapter books MacBeth mentioned. We have yet to use any of The Teaching Company's tapes, but I'd really like to incorporate them into our plan soon.
Tea, if you dig around on MacBeth's site, the FIAR site, and use the 4Real booklist, it's often easy to find science, geography or history connections for the older kids. I don't think you can do it and only spend a week rowing a book, though. We can't, anyway!
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Tea, I always include the older kids, too.....even the oldest, 15 and 17 must sit in for the read alouds that are new to them.........I want them to love picture books always! When we did Ping.........we did a mini-unit on China..........and most of it was for the 9-13, than for the 5yo ....he just played along....
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The Cafeteria Closed blog has a lovely photo of Chinese boats that would look great in a lapbook on Ping. See it here.
(You might want to ask permission before printing it out. I do not know the author's policy on such things).
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