Winter Lapbook

Our winter exploration has indeed turned into a lapbook, simple though it may be.

You'll have to look at the next two photos laying down. I shot them landscape, blogger turned them. Weird!

What's up next for this royal household? Kwanzaa exploration and a search for my funny. It seems to be missing. If you've seen it, please contact me. I am offering a reward for any clues leading to the recovery of my sense of humor.

Winter

The Lizard King is safely in Afghanistan. Princess and I are getting back into our routine. The house is a wreck, but I'm slowly getting things in order.

We have spent the last few days reading winter stories, doing winter worksheets, projects and learning a bit, too.

We made a real crystal snowflake using these instructions.

We read the Ukranian Folktale, The Mitten in this little book we found on the Enchanted Learning website.

We colored a mitten and animals found on the website, too so that we could act out the story ourselves.

I turned our Math-U-See workbook into Winter math with some snowflake stamps. We really like Math-U-See. The math worksheets I found online were simply math problems with snowflakes on the page. This just seemed more fun.

We've done crossword puzzles, played Tic-Tac-Snow, found our way through a maze, a picture hunt, we read The Snowy Day and this activity to go with it. We read Winter Waits and It's Winter. And who doesn't love to color a winter picture?!

We are turning this exploration into a lapbook. I'll be sure to share the photos once we're done.

Happy Winter everyone!

I'm Hooked on Lapbooking

I found some really cool lapbook resources that I wanted to share.

Homeschool Share has TONS of templates and lapbooks topics already designed. This is where I found materials and lots of information for our butterfly lapbook. They also have a huge variety of blank pockets and books that you can print and design yourself. Oh, and they are free! Very cool!

You can also find information and templates at Homeschool Helper. Homeschool Helper offers lapbook folding instructions as well. These are free, too!

For other materials, I simply Googled what I was looking for.

We did another lapbook today. For this one I Googled "money lapbook" and found this and Googled around and found some other things.

Another really cool find...Enchanted Learning. I've been pondering joining this since we started homeschooling. You can get lots of stuff from them for free, but if you become a member for only $20 for a whole year, you have access to even more and banner free printing. Here I found several of the booklets we used in our lapbooks.

Here is our money lapbook.

Later, we continued reading the 'Bugs & Insects' book we got at Costco. The second chapter is about spiders. Princess really enjoys placing the stickers.

Can you guess what our next lapbook subject will be? ;)

Butterflies

I have mentioned that we're homeschoolers, right? Yes, it has been a while since I've posted anything that we've learned. That is probably because we spent a month not doing any official school work. Not that we didn't learn anything, I mean really, how can one not learn?

Anyway, we spent the last week of so learning about butterflies. We found four awesome science books at Costco. We started with "Bugs & Insects".

The books are well written and interactive, using stickers to answer questions at various points in the book. Princess loved this.

When we started this book, I had no intention of doing anything more than reading, placing stickers and discussing what we read.

A while back, I heard the word lapbooking. I had no idea what it was. A friend showed me her lapbook, but I never did anything.

When I started reading Sherry's Living and Learning blog I began to get more curious about lapbooking. She has created some pretty awesome lapbooks with her son. One day she mentioned that there are tons of resources available on the internet. That was enough to get me hooked. I love Googling! I was ready for us to create our very first lapbook.

I decided that butterflies would be a great topic and began scouring the internet for resources. I found a ton of them! Here is what Princess and I created.

I hope you enjoyed our first lapbook. We are looking forward to making A LOT more. Isn't this the perfect way to summarize what we've learned? They make wonderful keepsakes, too.