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A Journey Through Learning
www.ajourneythroughlearning.com
Long Ride Home, Dangerous Decision,
Family Secret, San Francisco Smugglers,
Trouble with Treasure, Price of Truth
Six Learning Lapbooks
with study guides
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Circle C Adventures Books 1-6
Andrea Carter and the
Long Ride Home
Circle C Adventures
Book 1
Chapters 1-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Horse Care
Chapters 4-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andi’s Problems
New Friends
Chapters 7-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1800s Livery Stable
Chapters 10-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Respect
Chapters 13-15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Morse & the Telegraph
Chapters16-17 (18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Five Story Elements
Lapbook Activities for Both Editions
On page 5 you will find the cover sheet for
the outside of the first folder. It looks like this
small image to the left. The cover sheet is
cut out and glued to the outside of the
lapbook. This sheet also goes along with the
Dangerous Decision lapbook that will be
glued to the Long Ride Home lapbook
(creating a two-folder finished lapbook).
Directions for the student: Cut out and
glue the cover sheet on page 5 to the
outside of your folder (after it has been
folded). Draw a corral fence around the
horse, with Andi sitting on the top railing. Add
other ranch details then color the picture.
Lapbook cover sheet for two lapbooks (Books 1 & 2)
Directions for folding the file folders appear on the next page.
Welcome to the Circle C Ranch!
Create scene for b
ook 2.School Days
Original Edition Anniversary Edition
Answers can be found on pages 91-92
Create scene for b
ook 1.
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1800s Livery Stables
A livery stable in the 1800s was a building in town where horses, wagons, buggies, and carriages were available for hire. People could also pay a daily, weekly, or monthly fee to have someone board (take care of) their own horses. Some liveries were near the hotels or boarding houses travelers visited so they could have easy access to their horses and buggies.
But the livery stable was much more than a “hotel for horses” or a place to keep your carriage safe while staying in town. In addition to providing transportation and boarding services, the livery was a good source of tack (horse equipment like saddles and bridles), hay, grain, coal, and wood. The livery owner often bought, sold, or traded horses as well. Liveries usually did not smell very good and sometimes were dark and dirty. Because of the stench, noise, and pests (like fleas and mice) that surrounded the livery, towns tried to control their locations and activities.
Depending on who owned the livery, it could often be the scene of gambling and cockfighting. Many people did not think highly of livery stables and those who ran them.
1- Long Ride Home: Chapters 7-9
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Folder Read “1800s Livery Stables”
Color the horse your favorite horse color. Cut around the livery
stable on the dotted line and glue the entire piece into your
lapbook. As Andi was looking through the livery stable for Taffy,
she found many items that are needed to ride and care for a
horse. Reread page 58 (original) or 67 (anniversary). Cut out
the supplies on the next page. Glue them onto the horse in the
correct location. Draw hay on the floor of the barn.
1- Long Ride Home: Chapters 7-9
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A bridle is used to help you control
your horse. Do not cut out this picture.
Instead, study it and then draw a bridle
and reins on the horse in the livery
stable.
Here are some of the items Andi found in the livery stable.
Follow the instructions for each item and glue onto the horse and livery stable in
your lapbook. When you are finished, you may draw other items (like a harness)
hanging from the nails.
Sometimes people hang a
horseshoe over the door of their
barn or livery for “good luck.”
Saddle Blanket: this goes
on the horse first, under
the saddle
Cut out the rope and either hang
it on the saddle horn or on the
barn wall.
Feed: this goes in a corner
of the barn
Saddle: put this on the
horse after the saddle
blanket
Saddle bags go behind
the saddle or in a corner
of the livery
Barrel: this goes in the left hand
corner of the livery. It might be
filled with tobacco or grain.
1- Long Ride Home: Chapters 7-9
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Folder
Cut out the booklet and fold in half. Glue into lap book. After
reading the information, write two new things you learned
about the California kingsnake that you did not know before.
The snake Cory gives Andi (and slips into her desk) is a California kingsnake. California
kingsnakes can be found in many western states, even on some of the highest mountain
ranges. It is a constrictor-type snake, which means it squeezes its prey to death before
eating it. California kingsnakes are gentle, non-venomous, and make good pets. They are
easy to tame and care for, and they are attractive. California kingsnakes can be bred to
produce many different colors and patterns. Young snakes prefer smaller spaces, and a
cage about the length of the snake is the best choice, either in glass, plastic, or wood. They
can be moved to a larger enclosure as they grow older. When they grow, they shed their
skin like other snakes, sometimes four or six times a year.
Kingsnakes eat almost anything—small rodents, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and other
snakes. For this reason, a pet California kingsnake should be kept alone. Two snakes in the
same cage will try to eat each other. Kingsnakes will even hunt, kill, and eat rattlesnakes,
but not on a regular basis. They have some immunity to the rattlesnake’s venom.
When disturbed, California kingsnakes often coil up in their bodies to hide their heads. They
hiss and sometimes rattle their tails. If they do this in dry vegetation, it sounds like a
rattlesnake’s rattle. Although they are considered harmless to humans, California
kingsnakes will bite if handled too much.
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2- Dangerous Decision: Chapters 4-6
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Folder Andi has a box where she keeps all of her treasures.
Directions: Cut out the treasure box pieces and stack with cover
piece on top. Staple as indicated and glue into lapbook.
On the first page of the booklet, list the items that you keep (or
would keep) in your treasure box.
Read Matthew 6:19-21. Copy verse 21 where indicated.
On the last sheet, think of some treasures you can store in
Heaven. Just for fun: On the next two pages you will learn how
to fold a treasure box (and a lid). J
Things I treasure now
My Treasure
Box
Treasures for HeavenMatthew 6:21
3- Family Secret: Chapters 7-9
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San Francisco’s Chinatown
Chinatown
Andi, Jenny, and Lin Mei head for Chinatown hoping to take the little slave to the
mission home. This is new territory for Andi, and Aunt Rebecca already warned her
way back in chapter 4 to stay clear of that part of the city. So, what is Chinatown?
Chinatown is the name for any section of a city that includes a large population of
Chinese people. Andi’s adventures took place in San Francisco’s Chinatown—the
largest population of Chinese outside of Asia. However, in the late 1800s, many
California cities had their own “Chinatowns” as well. Even Fresno had a section of town
where the Chinese lived.
Why did they live separately? For one reason, it was easier to live in a neighborhood
where everyone shared a common culture and language. Another reason was that the
Chinese were not welcome in many cities.
Why did the Chinese come to America in the first place? For gold! When gold was
discovered in 1848, it wasn’t only the Americans who came to California. The Chinese
came by the thousands to the “Golden Mountain” hoping to find gold and return to
China. The Chinese people were not treated as equals by the Americans. They were
abused, cheated, and driven out of many gold claims. When they found out (like
everyone else) that the gold wasn’t as easy to get as they thought, the Chinese set up
other businesses like barbers, cooks, laborers, and laundrymen. They stayed together
in their own Chinatowns so they could keep the traditions of their homeland—China.
In Chinatown, people lived as if they were still in China. If you crossed into that section
of the city it was like stepping into a piece of China—the language, sights, smells, the
Chinese theater, the food . . . everything was Chinese!
4- San Francisco Smugglers: Chapters 13-15
They even had their own schools (but only the
boys went), since the law in California did not
allow Chinese children to attend the public
schools.
As you discovered in the book, Chinatown
kept all of the old traditions—even to the
buying and selling of slaves, even though
slavery was against the law in the United
States.
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Folder
Read “Chinatown”
Cut out both shapes. Stack with the cover sheet on
top. Staple as indicated. Glue into lapbook.
Directions: Inside, write two things you learned
about Chinatown that you did not know before.
Chinatown
4- San Francisco Smugglers: Chapters 13-15
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1800s Logging Camps
The Carter family are part owners of the Sugar Pine logging camp up in the Sierra
Nevada. Mitch has been elected to take a look at their investment and get a feel for the
business. What will he find when he gets there? What were logging camps in the 1880s
like?
The Sierra Nevada range produced some of the finest timber in the nation. But it was
hard (and expensive) to transport the lumber overland by horse teams. The gold rush
years brought on a huge demand for lumber. The small mining camps in the mountains
could get lumber from the Sierras, but growing cities like San Francisco and Sacramento
could get lumber cheaper from Oregon or Washington Territory! Why? Because the
lumber camps in Washington and Oregon were near water. Logs were loaded onto ships
in Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland and easily transported down the coast to San
Francisco. The Sierra logging camps, however, were a long way from natural water
transportation.
Once the timber was cut in the Sierra forests, teams of oxen—sometimes as many as six
to a cart—were used to carry the logs to the sawmill. The trip covered difficult and
dangerous terrain that was steep and rocky. Sometimes the logs were transported to a
major river and floated downstream to the sawmill, which was located on the banks for
easy access to the logs. Later on, logging camps in the southern Sierras got creative.
They built water-filled, V-shaped flumes—sometimes sixty miles long—to transport the
timber from the mountains to the valley. Once the flume was built, this mode of
transportation cut down on time and costs of the slow, ponderous overland travel.
Sawmills were dirty, noisy, unsafe places to live
and work. They were usually built up in
mountainous areas as close to the timber as they
could get or—if possible—near rivers. Being near
the water allowed for the timber to be cut down
and hauled to the mill much quicker. The Sugar
Pine logging camp used a flume to transport the
timber sixty miles to the sawmill in Madera,
California. Later, railroad tracks were laid all the
way up to the forest sawmills to help with
transporting the sawed lumber back down to the
valley.
Most sawmill camps were like a small village.
They housed the loggers and sawyers who
worked there. There was a cookhouse and a
recreational building as well.
5- Trouble with Treasure: Chapters 1-3
They cut huge trees in the 1800s!
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5- Trouble with Treasure: Chapters 1-3
Read: “1800s Logging Camps.” Cut out the booklets and stack
with the cover piece on top. Staple across the top and glue into
lapbook. Directions: Answer the questions.
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1800s Logging Camps
Sierra Timber
Saw
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Where could California cities get
timber cheaper than from the
Sierra logging camps?
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5- Trouble with Treasure: Chapters 16-17Folder
The Shack. Andi, Jenny, and Mitch have been stuck in a dirty, rat-
trap of a cabin for a number of days. So many things have
happened to them since stumbling on the shack that Andi can barely
keep track. Directions: Cut out the booklets and stack with cover
piece on top. Staple and glue into lapbook. Each picture shows a
plot event. Write a sentence or two under each picture explaining
what happened and how Andi (and Jenny) solved the problem.
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How’s Your Spanish? Cut out the booklet. Fold along the dotted line.
Cut out the cover piece and glue it on the outside of the booklet. Rosa
has done a lot of speaking in Spanish so far. Some of the words she said
are listed here. Cut out each Spanish word or phrase and glue it inside
the colored rectangle that matches the English meanings. Now, glue the
booklet into the lapbook where indicated. (Use page numbers as hints.)
Folder 6- Price of Truth: Chapters 11-13
It’s so heavy!
What?
I don’t know anything.
very far
Get going!
nothing
Why?
Andi told me.
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ENo sé nada.
Andi me dijo.
PAGE 53
¡Váyanse!
PAGE 11
¿Cómo?
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muy lejos
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¿Por qué?
PAGE 50
¡Pesa tanto!
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nada
PAGE 11
PAGE 53
How
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