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

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Original Edition Anniversary Edition

Answers can be found on pages 91-92

Create scene for b

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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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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

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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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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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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

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Andi told me.

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Andi me dijo.

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¡Váyanse!

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¿Cómo?

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muy lejos

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¿Por qué?

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¡Pesa tanto!

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