Large Cardboard (display boards) Lapbooks

I'm so disappointed. I went to the $ store to get some more of the display boards. They raised the price to $2.99 and $3.99!!!! I thought it was a dollar store. Ugh! I did get 2 but I'm going to have to search the other stores now. You can do alot with them. I'm going to have to make my own...Maybe get some boxed from a store. We will see.

Body Lapbook

This is from the "My Body" book. The last picture should be the first but I posted them the wrong way.

Bottom board ... this velcros to the top board. This way they can be taken apart and folded up. This does work well and it is more sturdy than butcher paper.

Top display board ... The intestines lift up to slide to other board under. I will be putting velcro on this. The face folds down to see the brain.

We used 2 display boards...found at the dollar store.
We will probably be adding some other things to the board. I have other body craft books to use.

What's Been Going On Here

Tom is still working on Henry the VIII. Which I really think should be called "The Tudor's" Lapbook. He also has been watching movies on John Hus (before King Henry VIII), William, Tyndale, and Martin Luther. This has helped him place the people in the right time area. He has also watched the Drive Thru (American) History Series.

We also started making the explorer booklets which he has cut and glued the little maps, faces, and names on each small booklet. He has read many pirate books. This will be an explorer/pirate lapbook. I will list all the books and websites at another time.

Katie and Ana had stopped working on their world lapbook. (Katie and I were just talking about this and we will get working on this soon)

Katie had been so distracted that I had made the decision (with Ed's ok) to put her on medication. Just want to say that alot of people are against medicaion BUT, she has been on the wheat/gluten/casein free diet, off of many foods, and off of dyes. This helped very much (still doing all of this) but I decided she needed the meds. It has helped tremendously to say the least. She loves math now and can do many pages in a day compared to not even 1/2 page. She is doing phonics...not her favorite subject but still does it. ~smile~ I think it is very boring to her. She can concentrate so much more and do things that she loves..."crafting"!

This week we started "My Body" book. The girls love it. They are almost done coloring all the body parts and we have started putting them together. They are not being glued on paper. I have the large science fair foldable boards (like a very large lapbook) which I will velcro together and their bodies have been traced on them. I will show you a picture later.

Have a great night and I will work on getting the picture on. ~smile~
Margarete

Henry VIII Book

I believe we will be making the H. VIII Lapbook a regular book out of legal sized file folders. We will glue them side by side and use duct tape for the binding. Then we will use scrapbooking paper to decorate the cover and pages. (Hope this works...~smile~)

Taking our Time

So sorry that the Henry VIII lapbook is taking so long. Life gets in the way. Also, we have found so much that it is getting bigger all the time. I was thinking of just putting these into a scrapbook album or notebook, etc. I'm not sure yet.
Tom wants to do explorers and pirates next.
Did you know that some explorers were pirates? Believe it or not, I didn't know. (Where did I go to school??) I have read alot of books and never knew this...boy, do I feel stupid.
Today Tom made some ships knots to get started. Now, if we really wanted to, we could "tie" this into Henry VIII's ship the 'Mary Rose'. And also continue with explorers from H. VIII's time. See, you can build onto any lapbook and make it grow.

Craft

Check out my main blog.... http://trueblessingshomeschool.blogspot.com for the mini egyptian pharoah mask craft. Enjoy!

Henry VIII lapbook booklets (UPDATED)

These two pictures should give you an idea of what Tom has been doing.

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WARS OF THE ROSES AND HENRY VIII LAPBOOK

(THE MORE WE WORK ON THIS, THE BIGGER IT GETS.)

Henry VIII

Catherine of Aragon

Anne Boleyn

Jane Seymour

Anne of Cleves

Katherine Howard

Katherine Parr

Mary I

Elizabeth

Edward VI

Discoverers & Explorers

Tudor Entertainment

Tudor Money System

Tower of London

'Money'

Map of United Kingdom

The Mary Rose

Protestants and Catholics

Early Tudor Costume

Getting Dressed

Tudor Society (might make this like the chart from http://www.historyonthenet.com/)

Lady Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley

Reformation

Martin Luther

Tudor food

A few booklets from Wars of the Roses (+ some):

map of the wars

king booklets:

Henry IV

Henry V

Henry VI

Henry VII

Henry VIII

Richard II

Richard III

Edward III

Edward IV

Edward V

Edward VI

Mary I

Elizabeth I

Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth

Prince Arthur (H. VIII's brother)

Princess Margaret (H. VIII's sister)

Mary (H. VIII's sister)

Martin Luther

I'm hoping we are going to be able to shut this lapbook when the time comes. ~LOL~

http://www.historyonthenet.com/

http://www.royalpaperdolls.com/

http://www.maryrose.org/

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/

www.cidadevirtual.pt/poge/kings/

http://www.warsoftheroses.com/

www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_iv_king.shtml

*** www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/kings_queens.index.shtml ***

www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_8.htm

www.britannia.com/history/ladyjane/guilford.html

www.schoolhistory.uk/lessons/elizabethi/summary.html

www.brims.co.uk/tudors/images/hen8past.mid

Wow, while we read about the kings "I" keep learning more and more.

Tom is remembering alot of this. I would have thought he'd be confused.

Tudor Crafts on our main blog.

Tom's Progress

Other paperdolls for World Lapbook

www.bluebonkers.com
go to the right and click cutouts.

World Lapbook...more

The girls have started their world lapbook. We color in a country, color a "world paper doll", cutout the flag and make a booklet. Katie also writes the name of the country in the booklet. I write Ana's. They also play with their world paper doll stickers. When we are finished with all of that, we will glue in the booklets. Oh, they will also do a map legend which I still have to finish and print out. I'm sure there will be more things added as we go along.

Tom hasn't started his lapbooks yet. It has been a crazy week, already.

Have a great day!