Theme Pockets, September contains 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.  Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.

The three topics for September and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:

School Days:

• helping hands book
• treasure map of the school
• school tools book
• learner layer book
• Things I Want to Learn memo list
• interview school helpers

Africa:

• the animals, land forms and stories of Africa
• cut and paste a dromedary
• fold and cut an elephant
• savanna/desert/jungle collages and writing
• Anansi stories with a colorful web
• monkey book
• wide-mouthed hippo

Whales:

• whale picture cards
• make a model of baleen
• whales blows book
• whale haiku
• As Big as a Whale Book

Lessons include:

• colorful art projects
• creative writing
• nonfiction writing
• science
• informational reading and writing