Lapbooks
This is our Animal Classification Project
We enjoyed putting together all the pockets, folders, and fanned accordian animals to make this a project that I will keep in my Godzilla Boy drawer. We completed this lapbook in September 2006. You wouldn’t believe how many facts he can rattle off now. Makes a homeschooling Mom proud!
Agecroft Hall and Wilton House
After a very long (six hour) field trip, we spent the next two days putting this project together. I like working on these notebook projects because it breaks the idea down into little pieces that are much easier to remember and, by far, more interesting. We took our field trip to these two houses in September, but didn’t finish the lapbook until October 2006.
I’m going to send the pictures to the museums, because I think they will like how they inspired our creativity.
I’m not sure why the pictures look so bad. I didn’t do anything different than I’ve done before. But maybe you can get the gist of it.
This History and Customs of Christmas
We began this lapbook late in November, after doing our Thanksgiving Unit. We finished it the 3rd week in December 2006. We did lots of activities that I show in more detail here. The lapbook is our paper documentation of this unit.
Weather
In January 2007, I was recovering from surgery, so we didn’t do any curriculum. We did this lapbook, that I got from Hands of a Child. I didn’t want to have to make too many plans, but I do think I would have expanded on the experiments a little more if I was feeling better. I think we’ll do another one next year.
This was a daily log of the sunrise and sunset during the Winter Solstice.
Steve Irwin
We were really sad in September when GB’s favorite animal guy was killed in a tragic accident involving a Stingray. So this was another lapbook from Hands of a Child that we did during my recovery. We thought this was a great lapbook and GB was really happy to see all the similarities between Steve Irwin, at age 8, and himself. For me, this unit was really sad. I don’t think kids have long-lasting sadness over death because they don’t realise the permanent nature of it. But the whole time we were doing this I kept feeling sad over the loss of such a compassionate man. I’m so glad we have this lasting memorial to him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In February, 2007, we did this mini-lapbook on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In public school, children learn just the nice-nice things about his life. He was an inspiring speaker and I admire him greatly, but I wanted to make sure that GB had a realistic image of him. So we delved, briefly, into some of the problems that MLK had, also. It’ll probably come back to bite me in the butt at some point later in our lives, but that’s what we did.
This was a timeline for his life.
