Lapbooks

I’ve been so excited to dive right in with lapbooking now that I have a kindergartener once again.  I used to use lapbooks for different holidays (President Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc) when my older children were young.   It’s been a few years, but I’ve started again!!!  This week, we put together a lapbook based on my daughters favorite book, “Harry the Dirty Dog” by Gene Zion.  I listed our lesson plans and a link to gather your own template for different learning activities.  I put...Read Full Story

Lapbooking and Homeschooling Free Lapbooks House for a Hermit Crab Lapbook from Homeschool Share Pictured on the left is Turtle's red Train lapbook and on the right is my These are the perfect way to nature journal, build a homeschool curriculum, Printable lapbooks; Free Homeschooling LapBooks I just found these from a Homeschool group I'm on, so I'm not sure how long Light and Color Lapbook A lapbook is a record of what your child has learned in scrapbook form. Printables are from free...Read Full Story

The tropical rainforest is a fascinating topic for a homeschool unit study! Just the botany and zoology alone could take weeks to cover. There are also the history of the rainforest, the indigenous peoples of the rainforest, and the economy of the rainforest. You can cater this topic to your youngest of students by focusing on the fascinating creatures such as toucans and leopards or raise the challenge by requiring older students to explore the political issues surrounding the use and misuse...Read Full Story

We all have one! We use it every moment of every day-- your incredible human body! What a personal and relevant topic of study for any child! For the younger students, your study may focus primarily on anatomy, so you will explore the body's organs and body's systems. For older students you may extend the study into physiology and add in the functioning of the human body, including its systems, tissues, and cells. Browse the ideas and links here to plan your human body lapbook, notebook, or...Read Full Story

Lapbooking can be done by any learner-- from preschoolers to adults. With this educational method, you make mini-books covering details that you've studied. After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in a large folder. The finished product is called a lapbook because it's large and covers your lap. The completed lapbook will serve as a review tool as your children refer to it over and over again. And if you have to keep a homeschool portfolio to...Read Full Story