Discussion forum: General discussion

Do any of you do Lapbooks? We just started Lapbooking this past month and I think I have found a true motivator for my kids! They love it! Alaina did a Dinosaur Lapbook and Cole is in the middle of the Civil War Lapbook. Fun! Fun! I thought I would share a few links with FREE Lapbook pages. Angie Robbins

CurrClick – Curriculum in a Click
http://www.currclick.com/index.php
You’re invited to CurrClick’s first annual “Easter Egg Hunt for Parents” running Monday, March 17th (today!) through Sunday, March 23rd. Our wonderful publishers have been arranging for tons of great surprises and our technical crew has been hurriedly preparing and hiding your virtual eggs. There are 41 of these eggs hidden all over CurrClick, all with promotional codes in them worth up to 75% off on select titles. There are even 7 totally free titles … If you can find them. Start hunting now! Have fun and don’t push anyone. (We had to say that. It’s an Easter egg hunt!)

A hint for you…click on the links under Information.
Click on the EGGS.
One of the FREE Lapbooks I found was Ancient Greece.
If you find any other free ones, let me know ;-)

The History of Sports – FREE
http://www.currclick.com/product_info.php?products_id=2587&it=1&affiliate_id=436

Hands of a Child
http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Default.aspx
Sign up for their newsletter and you will be notified of quartly Freebies to download.

Amelia Earhart – Free
http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Quarterly-Freebie-C151.aspx

Knowledge Box Central
http://knowledgeboxcentral.com/index.html
This site you just have to check back to see the Freebies.

Respect American Women – FREE
http://knowledgeboxcentral.com/frse.html

Lapbooking looks like so much fun. I just haven’t gotten to do it. I have 2 lapbooks from “Hands of a Child”.

The only problem I seem to have is actually taking it out and doing the copying, cutting and pasting. I’m sure it would take off once everything is organized.

I have ot admit that I got the prepackaged Lapbooks from Tapestry of Grace for next year. I thought that would be one less thing for me to shelve – I hope it will be a great resource.

Jules

I have participated in co-op classes in which the students made lapbooks, to organize the information they were learning. The finished product is beautiful and worth keeping. I’ve never designed a lapbook myself – it looks daunting. How does one do it?

We are always working on a Lapbook or two or three..well…we are actually working on four. One for each kid and the next one will be on Egypt. I hope to get all the kids in on that one because we have signed up for an International Fair and have to present info on Egypt. So I am thinking of making a rather large Egypt Lapbook.

Doing a Lapbook is very easy. First pick a topic your child is interested in. Like Frogs. Then pick some information you would like your child to cover from that topic. Like, a frogs diet, Classification, Predators, Life Cycle, Habitats, Species and so on. Read books on frogs, watch videos, have frog legs for dinner ;-) Whatever works for your child. You can make your own mini books and have your child label the books and add information or you can buy prepared Lapbook templates from links provided in the previous post, up above. Put everything in your Lapbook. You will need colored File Folders and double sided tape and time to cut, if you have little ones.

My 4 year old is working on the ABC’s and loves it! Here is a link http://www.homeschoolshare.com/alphabet_notebook.php of materials we are using. Other Lapbooks we are working on currently are St. George, Mary, Mother of Jesus, The Rain Forest and Blackbeard. Interesting contrast between Mary and Blackbeard. This just shows how different my children are ;-)

Angie