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/2009/10/mini-egyptian-pharoah-mask-craft.html 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!

World Lapbook Continued

I'm starting to put together the World Lapbook booklets and ideas for Katie and Ana.

http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-lapbook.html

I'm adding:

Abeka Children of the World Social Studies Visuals
http://www.abeka.com/

http://www.makingfriends.com/

Girls from Around the World Sticker Paper Dolls: With Over 300 Reusable Sticker Costumes (Paperback) http://www.amazon.com/

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

Volcano Lapbook To Be Posted

Tom has 3 more booklets to do and he is finished! Everything else is already glued in. He is really do nice work. He really dislikes to write but this he enjoys. I'm starting to make him do short little reports in his lapbooks. I do believe there was only one in this volcano lapbook. Oh, he also dislikes art, alot. So I'm trying to get him to use alot of color when he is gluing the booklets in. He did a black background with red, yellow, and orange behind the booklets. I'll try to post everything tonight or by the latest tomorrow. NOW POSTED

***Beginning Volcano Posts with books, websites, etc.*** http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/volcano-lapbook.html

Below, Meant to say A strip of paper slipped under the timeline booklet so that the booklet will not come undone and fall all over the place.

USA LAPBOOKS FINISHED

We used www.enchantedlearning.com for the booklets. You can use the pages or do a membership for $20.00 and you get more. I minimized the pages on my printer. For the "hinge" lapbook :
http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/hinge-on-back-of-usa-lapbook.html
http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/united-states-lapbook.html
AND how to store in a binder:
http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2008/12/storing-lapbooks-in-binder.html

Volcano Lapbook

Tom has started a volcano lapbook. We are using some booklets from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ and making our own.
He is still working on Wars of the Roses.
It's nice homeschooling because you can take a break from one thing and do another without worrying about being graded!!

BOOKS

Volcanoes by Neil Morris

Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Dr. Eldridge M. Moores

VOLCANO VIDEOS

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/videogallery/videogallery.html

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/volcanoes/volcano-eruptions.html

VOLCANO CLIPART

http://www.best-of-web.com/search_term_pages/erupting_volcano.html

http://www.free-clipart-pictures.net/mountain_clipart.html

VOLCANO INFORMATION ON THE WEB

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197833.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/pompeii.html

http://www.livescience.com/environment/volcano_overview.html

AZTEC LAPBOOK FINISHED!

TOM DID ALOT OF WORK FOR THIS LAPBOOK. WE COULD KEEP ON GOING BUT I THINK WE WON'T. WE CAN ADD MORE AT ANOTHER TIME. THERE IS SO MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT THE AZTECS.

ABOVE, THE CLOTHING BOOKLET OPENS "THE OTHER WAY"; IT'S FLIPPED THE WRONG WAY. ;0)

BOOKS WE USED:

1. HOW TO BE AN AZTEC WARRIOR BY FIONA MACDONALD

2. YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO BE AN AZTEC SACRIFICE BY FIONA MACDONALD

3. CLOTHES AND CRAFTS IN AZTEC TIMES BY IMOGENE DAWSON

4. MONTEZUMA AND THE FALL OF THE AZTECS BY ERIC A. KIMMEL

5. THE AZTECS BY ROBERT NICHOLSON

6. THE AZTEC EMPIRE BY SHEILA WYBORNY

7. THE AZTECS BY DONNA SHEPHERD

8. EXPLORING THE WORLD OF THE AZTECS BY ELAINE LANDAU

9. THE AZTEC INDIANS BY VICTORIA SHERROW

10. THE CRAFTS AND CULTURES OF THE AZTECS BY JOANN JOVINELLY

IN ONE OF THESE BOOKS, I THINK IT WAS 'CLOTHES AND CRAFTS', SHOWS YOU HOW TO MAKE A JAGUAR MASK. WE WILL BE DOING THIS SOON.

THE REPORT PAGES ARE FROM www.holdthatthought.com I have many of the cd's.