We love lapbooks. What a great way to learn.

We used Sonlight this year for the boys(Chesney listened in) and also for Chaya but we did not start until December so we will be continuing  next school year.  Anyway when the boys finished with ancient Egypt they did a lapbook on Mummies.  We may do one on pyramids over the summer.

Chaya in her study with Sonlight finished up with learning about Ancient Rome and then did a lapbook.

For the boys and Chesney we been using  Winter Promise "Animal and their Habitats".  We also did not start at the first of the school year so we have next year to finish. We learned about the African Savanah and are ready to start the rainforest but we did lapbooks first. We are also going to do one on gorillas.

Can't we tell who is the class clown in our house??

Chaya also finished a study on Amelia Earhart, very interesting lady.

Chesney has done a lapbook just for her. It was a counting/numbers book from 0 to 100.

We will be lapbooking all summer long with a list of things the kids want to learn about such as dance(who would have guessed!) snakes, alligators, frogs, Prince Caspian, pirates oh the things we can learn about!  We will be starting our botany study next week, going slowly throughout the summer and we will be notebooking/lapbooking using Live and Learn's  Learn and Fold. I am excited about using this. It in new to us, but looks so cool.

I will try to post lapbook pictures as we finish them though teh summer but mom has big plans for herself which means I am cutting back on blog/computer time. My personal goal this summer is to get our Disneyland trip scrapbooked and to move 2 children to different bedroom, which means painting 3 rooms. So everyone have a great summer and I will check in as I can.

(Everything pictures above was from In The Hands Of a Child or from Homeschool share web site.)

We just completed our first lapbooks and I can tell you they will not be our last! We loved them.  We did them on polar animals, igloos and penguins. I just checked out eveything I could find at the library and we read and read and read some more. What a great way to learn.  The kids did not get the idea at first but once all the things were done that were going into the books and I laid a book out on the floor so they could see what I was talking about they got very excited about doing one. They did the same items for their lapbooks but they got to plan where they would place them inside the book. Some of the books we used .

Cade plans his book.

Chesney is "Queen Messy Desk" at our house! I tell her everyday to clean off her desk, you can see how well she listens! Oh well as long as she can do her work, right?

Chase deep in thought as he puts his book  together.

Chesney proudly displays her book.

We enjoyed doing our first books so much that Chesney will be starting a lapbook on counting and Chaya will be doing one on Amelia Earhart.  (Chaya did not do a polar animal book) Chase, Cade and Chesney will be doing one for science based on a book called "Crawdad Creek"   I think we may be hooked!!!