Dear Parents,

           By now you should know that your child will be making a leaf collection for science class. Hopefully, they may have already started pressing leaves!

Press leaves between absorbent papers. Use a telephone book or stacks of newspaper with a weight on top. Within a week, the leaves will be dry and stiff. Waxing is not necessary and ruins the iron.

 All mounting and identification will be done in school (if the collecting and pressing is done on time.) If students do not have their leaves in school on identification days, they can work after school.

           Each student will receive mounting paper, yarn, and a folder to keep everything together.

SPECIFICATIONS

MUST HAVE 10 CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED LEAVES

One leaf to a page

Mount with glue or clear tape..

Neatly PRINT label in bottom right corner

Label includes: name of tree, location of tree

Make a table of contents

Number all leaf pages in top right hand corner name on bottom right of cover

*extra leaves count as one point extra credit

ORDER

cover page

table of contents

numbered leaf pages

GRADING:

5 points - neatly decorated cover

5 points - table of contents (group maples, pines, etc.)

90 points - ten correctly, identified leaves:

6 points - correct identification

1 point - location given

2 points - neatly pressed, mounted, and labeled

                  9 points for each of the first ten leaves                

100 points total

Thanks,

Mrs. Donna Turbaczewski

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