We have had mixed reactions to lapbooking over the years. I tried them many years ago when Bessie was small. She did not enjoy them. We set them aside. We have revisited them the last few years. Bessie enjoys them now that she is in highschool...go figure. She is doing one right now on the election process. There are some great lapbooks out there for older students.
Gabe enjoys the mini-books, the coloring and the pasting, but not the cutting or much writing. His writing is improving by leaps and bounds this year and he is now more willing to work on the writing. I don't mind doing the cutting (a hold over from paper dolls or maybe my love of scrapbooking).
Now, the Littles, they love everything about lapbooks. I finally have my group of eager lapbookers!
It is often hard to know what themes to do with them, as their ability levels are all over the place. We pick something they like and work with the books to find ones that they are able to do but will also challenge them a bit.
They enjoyed working this one. It started out being for Dan, then Hannah joined us and finally Rachel wanted to participate, so we have a mix of who did what. Some of the mini-books they all did, some we worked on as a group. Lapbooks are helping them learn some of the basic things they have been missing in a fun and creative way.
I enjoying using lapbooks as a teaching method and will be using them often with the Littles.
Cover from Eric Carle's book
Inside
Inside with flap up for extra work
There were some extra activity sheets that we did and I will probably make a pocket for the back to keep these in. Right now they are just tucked inside.
They did a great job and they were very proud of their accomplishment and so was I.
7 comments:
That's so cute! Glad the littles are enjoying it.
Great Job! We love lapbooking here. I have The Grouchy Lady Bug on my list. Kaden loves lady bugs.
Awesome. I really should get some going with J. There is a Thomas the Tank Engine one out there that I know he'd love. They all look very proud of their work.
What great smiles on the Littles.
You're giving them one of the greatest gifts of all - a love of reading. I'll have to ask my oldest daughter if she knows about the lapbooks.
That is so cute! I haven't tried lapbooking yet and keep thinking I will. I love seeing how creative they can be.
This is a darling lapbook. I'm so thankful you and Lisa showed me the way to homeschool share. I'm really enjoying the things I find there.
Arielle even enjoyed it this time. I was going to order the TOG lapbook this unit as the kids are enjoying them but they really don't like those....so I think we'll continue chosing one or two subjects we want to tackle and doing them on our own.
HOWEVER - I'm going to have to figure out how to assemble the folders.....I tried to glue three together and it was NOT PRETTY. LOL
Great job Littles! That came out so cute.
De'Etta if you happen to be reading the replies to Debbies comments, LOL, When I have to glue two or more of the file folders together here is what I do.
Put white squeeze glue on the flaps which will be going together then smooth the glue out, (with a popsicle stick or something) not just leave it in lines and squiggles. Then press the sides together and hold it for a couple minutes or even put books on it. I had to make 25 "two folder lapbooks" for my class last month. Glueing them all together nearly did me in but flattening and then pressing the glue really worked well.
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