Flower Lapbook or craft

This is a flower craft the kids did today. For a lapbook you could make a one page booklet or accordian booklet out of the flowers middle and have them write names of flowers or a sentence about flowers. You could do the same for the sun and write the word sun or sentence.
For an older child, if they are learning another language they could write the words or sentences in that other language inside the booklets. You could also make the flower leaf into a booklet to write "leaf or leaves". (I thought of all this when we were done. ~smile~)

Hope this helps someone.

Tom's Fish

Today the kids made fish out of envelopes. They sealed the envelopes and then cut off one end for the mouth and used that cut off piece for a fin. Now you can open up the fish from the mouth side.
The picture below is of Tom's fish. He glued them inside a file folder and used popcorn kernels and beans for the sand. He used the colored foam with the sticky backs for the seaweed.
Here is an idea for you. If you make these fish and put it together like a lapbook, you could put a booklet in each "mouth" (maybe shaped like another fish).
Hope this helps!!

Tom has worked on his space lapbook but we have been getting ready for my son's wedding and trying to get things done around the house. The lapbook probably will not be up for at least 2 weeks.
I think I need a little break. :)

Visitors

I've been amazed at all the visitors this blog has had. Alot of these visitors have been from around my area and some have been literally only 10-15 minutes away!

Tom is still working on the Space Lapbook. He has been working on a few mini reports for this.
Katie and Ana have not started their world map lapbook yet. Mom's fault!

Keep visiting!
~smile~

Space Lapbook

Tom now wants to do a space lapbook.

Websites:

http://www.3pounds.com/study_guides/artyastro/pdf/teacher_guide.pdf

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/

http://news.cnet.com/Timeline-Key-milestones-in-space-exploration/2009-11397_3-6210843.html?tag=mncol

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110163/famous_space_explorers.htm

http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/education/publications/curatorcolorbook.pdf

http://phys.kent.edu/~manley/astronomers.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/23830/education.htm

http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Galileo_Galilei.htm

http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/space/revisiting_the_moon/

Books:

The How and Why Wonder Book of Famous Scientists (1964) by Jean Bethell

(Nicholas Copernicus)

Tower of London Lapbook Finished

This is Tom's lapbook. We will be doing the cover tomorrow.

Below, Tom wanted to write something about the Judgement of God and The Judgement of a king. This was from his own head. ~smile~

Below is the timeline which is very long.

Below is part of the timeline.

Above, The Raven, Gate and Lion are 3D

Other post of mine about this lapbook: http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/tower-of-london-lapbook.html

Almost finished Tower of London

We started putting the Tower of London lapbook together today. What a pain! He made a pop-up Tower of London but the glue would not stick. No matter what glue or rubber cement we used it wouldn't work. We ended up using velcro! So, we will be working on this tomorrow.
Have a great day. ~smile~

World Lapbook

I am getting things together for Katie and Ana to do a world lapbook.

WEBSITES

http://www.edupics.com/

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps.htm

Booklets

I'm trying to figure out how to get pdf files on here so I can share the booklets. Can anyone tell me how to do this????

Tower of London Lapbook

BOOKS

Tower of London: England's Ghostly Castle by Gail Blasser Riley

The Tower of London by Leonard Everett Fisher

James I and the Gunpowder Plot: A LadyBird 'Adventure from History' Book

by L. Du Garde Peach (1967)

Also reading: England (Revised Edition) Enchantment of the World

by Jean F. Blashfield (Not much about the Tower of London but it is worth knowing about England)

Websites:

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/879/myths_of_the_raven.html

http://www.castles.me.uk/the-tower-of-london.htm

http://www.britainexpress.com/London/Tower-of-London-Timeline.htm

http://www.trooping-the-colour.co.uk/keys/index.htm

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/boleyn.html

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/primary.html

Booklets made (so far):

What happened at Traitor's Gate?

Guy Fawkes

Sir Walter Raleigh

Queen Anne Boleyn

Arabella Stuart

Princes in the Tower with Richard III

Yeomen Warders

The Jewel House

The Tower of London Vocabulary

Map of England: Where is the Tower of London?

The Tower Menagerie

Tower Timeline

Myths and Legends of the Ravens