FIAR Co-op - The Story About Ping, Part 2

For our second week of Ping, we worked on mini books to put inside our FIAR notebooks. This was perfect for the 7 and 8 year olds, a wee bit much for the 5 and 6 year olds, and way too much for the 3 year old (but he got all my examples that I'd done ahead of time, so he didn't really have to do much!).

Before this however, we read the story together again and the children took turns once more re-telling the story using picture cards in sequence.


In the future I will plan to not do quite so much coloring and cutting in one day. But all in all, it was fun and the children did enjoy seeing their mini books take shape! We colored in the country of China on a small world map, to see where in the world China was located, since that is where the story of Ping takes place.


We also colored a small flag of China, and labeled the Yangtze River on a map of China.


For our snack we ate rice.......with chopsticks!!






Before going outside to play (and pretend to be Ping!), we finished our morning inside with one more hands on activity, and that was making a food wheel to show the types of things Ping ate. The book mentioned several.



We glued the 3 small books on the front of a sheet of cardstock, and the food wheel on the back. The older children had fun right away flipping open their mini books and admiring their handiwork!


All of the Ping mini books were printed off of this website. Other ideas for Ping activities came from either the FIAR teacher's book, or other websites that came up when I googled Ping.