Iroquois lapbook notebook

Tom did the http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ Iroquois lapbook booklets. We put them into notebooking instead of file folders. I seem to like this better. The indian in the first picture is
3-D.

Shark Lapbook / Notebook

Today Katie started to put together her shark lapbook/notebook. She loves it. :)
The lapbook booklets are from www.homeschoolshare.com (shark),
www.kidszone.ws , and I believe dltk-kids.com
(These are the first pages)

CHANGES

I have pretty much decided to have Tom do lap/notebooking. (So far our homeschool year feels like a bust). He will do the booklets but we will put them on notebook pages. He's getting older and I think he is bored with the folders. This is ok. He is excited to do this. He's going to decorate the pages and maybe write more info on them.

He has done alot of chemistry booklets. Some from homeschoolshare.com and some I have been making. He has also started the Iroquois booklets from homeschoolshare.com . This is getting him ready for The French and Indian Wars. I will have to make some Algonquian indian booklets and French and British booklets.

I'm excited for this because I myself just love history. I actually learned about 'The Beaver Wars' last night while reading. We were never taught about this. We still have alot to learn.

We were also thinking about taking his Henry VIII lapbook (which is quite large and not even finished being put together), cut the booklets off the file folders and make the lap/notebooking pages.

Wow, I've been gone for awhile!

I have not been on here for so long! I have had other things going on and interruptions. Tom has done mostly Latin, Math, Spanish, PE, and Reading for the past few months. He really hasn't had any writing done sooooo.......now he has started a Chemistry lapbook. We are using some of the booklets found from the Chemistry lapbook at www.homeschoolshare.com . I'm also making more using the book, 'The World of Chemistry' by John Hudson Tiner. Tom has answered most of the questions in the book and has now started the booklets.

In the past few months, I hope this lapbook blog has helped someone in some way.
~smile~

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!