More lapbook info

Here is an idea for an alternative to using regular file folders for your lapbooks.



Here are some lapbooks that a family made. I especially like their "winter vacation lapbook". This would be a great idea for a summer vacation, too. She doesn't give any links for printables, but definately has some good examples.


Jimmie has some great examples of lapbooks, also.



Another site with some great ideas and links to printables.



This is an adorable "ladybug" lapbook with a how-to on Youtube. Make sure to scroll down and check out the other ones also.



Here are some links on how to make those little lapbook mini booklets and a LOT of other links to lapbook related things.



LapbookLessons is a must!




Homeschool Launch has a mixture of everything, not just for lapbooks. This is a site to network and share your resources.

Frog Lapbooks

We have finished our habitat study of "wetlands". The younger kids made these frog lapbooks.
We used several of the printables from Homechool Share. I don't remember where the cover came from-possibly the same site. The green accordian fold is the "tadpole to frog" life cycle cards.

My six year old completed hers with minimal instruction from me. My five year old completed hers with a little more instruction, and even my three year old could do his coloring and pasting with a little help cutting and laying things out from me.

Penguin Lapbooks

The younger kids finished their penguin lapbooks yesterday. Tyler, Timothy, Bethany, Brooke and Tristan are studying the various habitats for the first half of the school year. We are covering Arctic/Antarctica, deserts, oceans, tropical rain forests, North American Temperate Forest/Mountains, swamps/marshes/rivers and grasslands. We're spending two weeks per habitat and they just finished Arctic/Antarctica. The two older boys are making a notebook with cardstock paper dividing each habitat. They are assembling a few small minibooks and cutouts that I'm just having them mount on cardstock and sticking in the notebook, as well as a few report sheets, maps and such. The younger kids are doing one lapbook per habitat, and this one happened to be penguins.

We added on a sheet of cardstock, attached with clear tape, because all the little things wouldn't fit in the folder alone. I got several little booklets from Homeschool Share. It's the study on Mr. Popper's Penguins, but we didn't read that book.

I used a sheet of small penguins to make some math flash cards, made a foldover and stapled pocket for them, and labeled it "Penguins 1 2 3". This was from a "Teacher Created Resources" book I picked up at a yardsale. I made the blue accordian fold bookelt from that also. It was a page with a penguins life throughout the seasons.

We found some penguin info. cards at Seaworld.org. I have gotten a lot of info. from this site for other habitats, also.

I used a shape book template of a penguin from ABCteach. There are other printables on this link that you could even use for older chidlren. I cut out three little construction papers, folded them over, and on the outside listed one question on each about penguins: What do penguins eat? Do penguins fly? Do penguins lay eggs? They pasted these on the penguin template.

The color page I got from Dover books weekly sampler.

We also cut out a black penguin from construction paper and glued cotton balls to his chest, and an orange beak and feet, and wiggly eyes.

We were going to make these cupcakes, but we ended up making brownies instead.

Lapbooks

We have really enjoyed lapbooking this year. I had really only discovered it about a year and a half ago and while planning out my homeschool year last summer, I knew I wanted to incorporate some of these into our studies. Even the younger kids wanted to do their own lapbooks and so I'm planning more to be done this next year as well. I came across some very helpful websites that give free templates, ideas and even pictures of examples. You can buy premade ones if you want, but I found so much on the internet for free, I just decided to put them all together on my own. I got lots of material off of the following links (and also the links on their sites). If I needed more on a particular subject I would go to several sites that I frequent for worksheets or type what I was looking for into the search engine.

These sites have lots of info. on how to get started. No need for me to retype. They've said it well enough!


www.squidoo.com/lapbooking
www.homeschoolshare.com
www.homeschoolhelperonline.com
www.lynns.lapbooklessons.com

Here are some general sites that I always go back to for worksheets and printables.

www.teachervision.com This site requires a membership, but it offers a 7 day free trial.
www.learningpage.com
www.proteacher.net Go into "Directory"
www.enchantedlearning.com
www.abcteach.com
www.busyteachercafe.com
www.homeschoolernetwork.fen.com
www.educationworld.com
www.teachingheart.net
www.learningtreasures.com

If you would prefer to purchase ones already put together, these are the places to get them:

www.knowledgeboxcentral.com
www.currclick.com Don't forget to sign up for their weekly freebies. They are pretty great!
www.handsofachild.com

Mary Cassatt Lapbooks

We finished our Mary Cassatt lapbooks today. The three oldest worked on them together, I just adjusted the writing according to grade level (we had 2nd, 5th and 7th). It was a pre-made kit that I had received as a free gift for something. It came from Hands of a Child. They sell a lot of neat kits for the lapbook-challenged, but I like to just put my own together. (Call me a rebel!) The cover was actually a sample from a coloring book that I got from the Dover weekly sampler.

Our First Lapbooks!

We've just finished our first lapbooks and I'm really pleased with how they've turned out. We've been "notebooking" and other things for years, but this is the first year we've done lapbooks. I got the printouts from here and here. I just bought some colored file folders and some colored card stock. I attached the card stock to the folder with clear packing tape for extra space.
We did a whole little unit on bees and completed all the little diagrams and booklets and things. We made a recipe using honey, a density experiment with honey, oil, water, molasses and chocolate syrup and we are going to make some beeswax candles. We listed some honey scripture, "bee" sayings and uses for honey and wax. We plan to make a trip to a local beekeeper when that trip gets set up.