My dd has started a lapbook on the moon---the one from the site you recommended Jen (THANKYOU!)! She's having fun with it. There's still more to do, but I'll try to post pictures here also, when she's done!
We are starting some simple lapbooks. For now I'm just doing them to help with his reading comprehension. He reads a story, then goes back through and for EACH PAGE draws a picture of what happened. (Like, main idea...?) Then puts together a lap book in order. I *have been* having him do that backwards. Read the story, then go back through and write a sentence to tell main idea. THEN draw a picture, then do the lapbook... but we haven't been getting to the lapbook that way and the writing a sentence part is like pulling teeth. I just want to make sure he understands main ideas... and as far as I can tell drawing a picture isn't any less of learning it, right? So we havne't technically done one yet, but we are. LOL I'm a scrapbooker anyway, and we're already doing scrapbook pages for our Bible lessons.
DaLynn, After my son's bad experience in 1st grade with reading, he wouldn't read a word because he was so frustrated! I read most everything for him for awhile, then near the beginning of a Robinson Crusoe Reader (from Christian Liberty Academy), it had an assignment to draw a picture of what he thought RC's boat looked like. My ds loved that idea! The next day he asked to read some more so he could draw another picture. I was amazed, and THRILLED, because that was what caught his interest again! So I still have the pictures he dres. Some of them have the explanation on them, some don't. But they were a life-saver for my son!
AussieMom -the way we make a double lapbook- I am going to try really hard to explain it... take 1 manila folder and open it flat, fold both sides in to the middle so they meet take another manila folder and cut off the tab so that it is straight all the way across the top. glue the 2nd folder to right flap of the first with the opening facing to the right OR you can glue the 2nd folder in the middle of the 1st. When you close your folder you should have a folder the size of a normal manila folder - it should be folded with the 2nd folder to the inside. The pop up book is 2 sheets of paper(ours are about 5 1/2 x 4 inches). Take both sheets of paper and fold them in half. Take one and cut two 1 inch cuts in the folded side of the paper about 1 inch apart. Fold the cut fold in so it will " pop-up" when you open it. Glue the other paper to the "outside" to cover up the slit. Be careful not to put glue on the slit because it will prevent it from popping up. Draw and cut out a picture and glue onto the bottom half of you inside fold. When you open it the picture should pop up.(Gosh I hope you got that one! Whew!) They get really creative with this one. My son's had a rabbit popping up out of real grass. The Bound Book is great too and easy. 2 sheets of paper. Fold both in half. 1st sheet cut a slit in the middle of the fold(along the fold) leaving 1 inch on both ends. 2nd sheet cut the opposite with the cut slits on the ends of the fold. Fold the one with the cuts on the ends THROUGH the one with the slit in the middle. UNFOLD while in the middle of the slit. They should fit together. We like to do this one with different colored paper.
Hey Sabrina, I don't habe much time right now 0 have t go to work soon, but over the next few days I will sit infornt of these instructions and see if I can do it, lol. I will let you know...
Well, what a huge amount of typos yesterday Now, I may be being dense, but I just can't get how to do this double lapbook:roll: i have read the instructions you posted, and looked at diagrams on the net....and i still can't do it, lol. So I have folded up the first folder as usual - do I fold the second one in the same way, or leave it with it's normal folds (how it comes?)
Yes, the second folder stays the same except for cutting off the tab. BUT the first folder does not stay the same. It should look like the old fold is at the back middle and now has two folds and opens in the middle.
Samantha is working on a Primates Lapbook and is having tons of fun with it. We still have a bit of work left on it - we're just having fun and taking it slow. Hers has all kind of "flip" pages. So far she has done a page of vocab words, a page of "monkey sayings" and drawings, and a monkey poem she just wrote yesterday. She has one more primate to research and then we will type it up and add all five pages of research plus art work. We're loving this and very well may do science this way next year and forget a curriculum.
When we studied monkeys and the rainforest, our big new word was "PREHENSILE" (Ok, maybe the spelling sin't right!) The neat thing was that we read "Rascal" about two months later, and it was used in the story. AND WE KNEW WHAT IT MEANT!!!
ROFLMBO Absolutely you can! And we're about to start a mini-unit on each of the 50 states too. I hadn't thought about lapbooks, but that is SO PERFECT for what we're going to do. hehehe I'm thinking history is a good subject for lapbooks....
Here are some links for lapbooking resources. They are fun to do. http://www.handsofachild.com/2/ http://www.knowledgeboxcentral.com/ http://www.classicaleducation4me.com/lapbooking.html
I just heard her speak. She's cute and really funny. If they are near a homeschooling conference near anyone--they are worth stopping in to see.
