One of my homeschool friends recently asked about lapbooking and I realized that I was behind on blogging
some of the stuff we've been doing in school. We don't go full out on lapbooking, with fancy folding & all, but do a simpler folder. For astronomy I've been cutting the folders down and hole punching them so that they can fit in David's astronomy notebook.
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I like having all of the information neatly presented without a lot of little papers floating around. And David likes seeing his work combined into one place at the end of each chapter.
Handwriting practice, which is greatly needed, is a lot more fun when combined with a project than it is when we're working in the handwriting workbook! (which is more like torture)
I use the review questions at the end of the chapters for the questions that he answers.
This will also be a keepsake, because we used his actual footprint to make the flap book above.
When something in the chapter has been especially interesting to him, we make sure that gets into the folder. It doesn't show up to well on the red, but he drew a volcano (above) to represent Olympus Mons on Mars - the largest volcano in the solar system!
David gets tickled every time he sees that picture of the asteroid that looks like a dog bone!!
We also do folders (instead of pockets) for his ancient history. In hindsight, I wish I had cut them down & hole punched them also.
So that's a quick summary of our modified lapbooking that we've been doing this year!
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