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May 21, 2008

Memorial Day Minibooks

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My sons spent a few days last week working with their papa, so my nine year old daughter was looking for some ways to make money too. I told her if she did the research and came up with the ideas for the minibooks, I would help her design some lapbooks to sell. We just finished one on Memorial Day which you can purchase at my Lulu storefront  or at Currclick. Here is a picture of the completed lapbook which she cut out and assembled:

 

 

She is planning to use her profits to save for a digital camera or a sewing machine.

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May 21, 2008

Ideas For Teaching Sewing

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Sewing is a skill that I really want my daughters to learn. My mom did teach me some hand sewing, but never got around to teaching me to use the sewing machine.  So, we had to look for someone (besides me) to teach our girls.

Yesturday my oldest daughter had her first sewing lesson with my husband's aunt, who is an accomplished seamstress.  She  started out by teaching a few hand sewing basics.

 

 She even made some "homework" for my daughter to do. I thought this was such a neat idea. The first is a single turn hem which my daughter has already finished. She sewed it with black thread so her aunt could check it. The second is six different styles of buttons my daughter had to sew on. The third is a double turn hem, which still needs to be completed.

 

sewing homework

 

My daughter is also working on the sewing lapbook I put together. If you are interested, you can find the information and free printables here.

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January 30, 2008

Nippon~ the source of the sun.

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OK, I admit it. I get a little lazy this time of year. We are supposed to be studying Japan this week, but I didn't really feel like doing much on Monday. So, I handed the kids a pile of books and told them, "Read these, design some minibooks, and make a lapbook using the information you read."  I was really impressed with what they came up with. (I did the actual design work on the computer, but they chose the titles, type of book, colors, and graphics.) I'm in the process of refining and adding in some other things and I will eventually offer it for sale. I told them I will use the profits to buy more fun school stuff. LOL!  If you are studying Japan, you might also want to check out my Japan Unit Study page.

 

 

 

My 9 1/2 year old made this one. She designed the Japanese arts, haiku, geta, kimono,  and musical instruments books. It was also her idea to add the oragami project to the lapbook.

 

 

 

My almost 12 year old made this one. He still needs to add an oragami project to the blank space. He designed four of the minibooks- Japanese sports, inventions, food, and characters.

 

My almost 11 year old made this one. He was content to let his siblings design his minibooks for him. The "animals of Japan" was the only one he designed.  He still needs to make his cover.

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January 9, 2008

Little Laplinks: Penguins

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The newest Little Laplinks theme is Penguins, which works out great since we just started a penguins lapbook anyway. My two little girls LOVE penguins! We are using Scholastic's Easy Make and Learn Projects: Penguins. It has some wonderful printables! It's not free, but I think it was worth the money I spent on it. I also made a few extras to add to it. They are posted in the files section of the Lilliput Station Yahoo Group. I also posted several penguin links on my blog last April, and here are a few new ones to add to them:

 

We will post photos when we complete our lapbooks.

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November 13, 2007

Free Lapbooks

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Since my free notebooking pages post was so popular, I decided to do one for lapbooks as well. I think there are a lot of people who would like to try lapbooking, but aren't willing to spend alot of money on something they aren't sure is going to work for them. Or they'd like to try lapbooking, but just aren't sure how to do it. Freebies are a great solution to both of these problems.

 

Hands of A Child has a new lapbook freebie every quarter. Right now, they are offering an Art Appreciation lapbook. The HomeschoolEstore also offers free lapbooks occasionally. Right now (through November 18th) you can get the Hands of A Child What Is Snow? lapbook for free.

 

Live and Learn Press has an Apple Learn 'N Folder and an All About Me folder. If you join their Yahoo Group, they offer several more freebies including a Mothers Day, a Fathers Day, a St. Patrics Day, a Fourth of July, and a Thanksgiving folder.

 

Homeschool Helper Online has some very nice free lapbooks and templates. They have too many to list here. We are currently using their Orchestra lapbook for our composer studies.

 

Homeschool Share also has a nice and growing selection of free lapbooks.

 

Lapbook Lessons  has some very nice printable lapbooks including one for Little House In the Big Woods. Or check out some of the free resources from Valerie's Little Laplinks meme. Don't forget to visit Lilliput Station Adventures to download the free resources I've created for these lapbooks.

 

The Homeschooling On A Budget Google group also has a great selection of free lapbooks. (Membership in the group is required.)

 

Sonia of Homeschool Treasure Trove just posted a Clocks and Calendars lapbook. (Membership in the group is required.)

 

The Virginia government has been nice enough to provide some nice printables for a US History or Virginia History lapbook.

 

Just Some Stuff has posted a free Twas The Night Before Christmas Lapbook she made with both black & white and color templates.

 

This is not a complete lapbook, but Peakmore Academy  does have some nice foldables to include in a lapbook.  Currently she only has history minibooks, but she told me she has some science ones coming soon.

 

And finally, check out Jimmie's Lapbook Lens on Squidoo. She has lots of links to free templates as well as excellent info on how to get started lapbooking.

 

If you know of any free lapbooks I have missed, please leave me a comment and include the link. Thanks!

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November 5, 2007

Little Laplinks: Pilgrims

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It's November so it's time for a new Little Laplinks theme. This month it's Pilgrims.  Here are some links I've collected. We don't plan to make this one since we just finished up a Thanksgiving lapbook (see pictures at end of post). But here are some ideas for the rest of you:

 

Evan Moor has some very nice samples which would work well in a Pilgrim lapbook:

I found out about these freebies through Audrey's Thanksgiving Links. She has lots of goodies!  Definately worth a look!

 

The Teaching Learning Company also has some very nice freebies. I've listed a couple of them, but check out their site because there is lots more:

 

Homeschool Helper Online has several Pilgrim related lapbook templates.  Robert Sabuda  has a cute turkey pop-up you can make and Unit Studies By Gwen has a nice Thanksgiving minibookLearningPage.com also has some Thanksgiving printables including a colors of Fall minibook.  

 

I've also made a few things. You can find them at Lilliput Station Adventures. Have fun!

 

And here is my oldest (9 year old) daughter's lapbook. A lot of these templates came from the Live and Learn Press Thanksgiving Lapbook:

 

 

 

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October 21, 2007

The Best Lapbooks Ever

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Yesturday my three middle children didn't have anything to do during the toddlers' naptime, so I gave them some paper and file folders and printed off some of the pages in the Hand's of A Child Templates Pack so they could  make lapbooks. This is what they came up with:

My six year old son made a squirrel lapbook which really has no practical purpose, but he had fun anyway. I love how he turned the squirrels into flaps with other squirrels hidden underneath. He's a bit squirrel crazy. When my husband took his older brothers squirrel hunting, I teased him about having to eat his little friends. He said, "So. I like watching squirrels and I would like to eat them too." Yuck. That is totally his father's genes.

 

 

This was my seven year old son's creation. I don't think he ever decided on a theme, but I like it anyway:

 

My nine year old daughter made an art lapbook. :

 

 Don't you love her list of things you need for a picture?

Grass to make the picture look green.

Flowers to make the picture colorful.

Sky to make the picture look finished.

A person or animal to add action to the picture.

How many masterpieces do you think would meet her criteria? LOL!

 

In case you're wondering, she LOVES to paint. 

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October 5, 2007

Little Laplinks: Pumpkins

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Valerie from Christian Preschool Printables  has started a monthly  “Little Laplinks” meme for collecting free resources to make early elementry lapbooks. This month's theme is PUMPKINS! If you would like to participate, you can read about it on her blog.

 

Let's get started! First, how about some math?

Counting Pumpkin

Scarecrow Counts The Pumpkins Emerging reader

Scarecrow Counts The Pumpkins Emerging Reader 2

Find the Missing Number

File Folder Game: Pumpkin Patch Matching game teaches pattern recognition.

Number Match-Up Puzzle Color black & white and color.

Six Piece Puzzle Develops reasoning skills.

Pumpkin Patch Subtracting (This is from the Enchanted learning site, so you have to be a member to print it off. If you're not a member, you can still look at it & make your own.)

How Many Seeds In A Pumpkin Book This book isn't free, but it looks so cute that I may go ahead and get it.

 

Then some science:

Pumpkin Science

Describe A Pumpkin Using The Five Senses and write your descriptions in this Pumpkin Shape Book.

Pumpkin Poem/Coloring Page

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Sequencing Activity

 

Next some language arts:

Pumpkin Sight Words One, Two, Three, Four

Pumpkin Patch Alphabet Flashcards

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater puppet

Homeschool Share Pumpkin Jack Unit With Printables & Activities

 

Now on to art:

Make A Pumpkin Seed Mosaic

Pumpkin Crayon Rubbings 

Pumpkin Hand Prints (to decorate the cover of your lapbook)

You need yellow construction paper, orange and green washable paint, paint brushes, and green marker.

Place the paper on a table in front of the child.  Have him or her make a fist with one hand.  Paint the top of the fist (fingers and knuckles) orange.  Press the fist onto the sheet of paper to resemble a pumpkin.  Repeat until the paper has as many pumpkins prints as desired.  Next, make a green fingerprint at the top of each pumpkin for a stem.  When the paint is dry, use a green marker to add vines to the picture. 

 

And after all that hard work, you can enjoy a snack:

Pumpkin Poop

Pumkin Seed Snack

Yummy Pumpkin Treats

 

Finally, here a few Pumpkin Units With Printables:

Teaching Heart

K-2 Printables

Making Learning Fun

Pumpkin Nook A great site with lots of info!

And don't forget to visit Lilliput Station Adventures  for free pumpkin lapbook templates made especially for this project (What spices are in pumpkin pie? How many words can you make from the phrase "pumpkin patch"? Five Little Pumpkins Minibook. Color Mixing Poem. Plus a pumpkin harvest coloring page. ), plus explaination and links for the lapbook we put together .

Pictures of our finished lapbook:

 

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August 30, 2007

Lapbook Pictures

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One of the members of the Lilliput Station Yahoo Group   just completed The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interactive Notebook with two of her sons. Here is a review and some photos she sent:

 

My two boys have completed this lapbook and I just wanted to let everyone know how it went. My six year old had a blast. My nine year old, who happens to be autistic, had a pretty good time too. I wish the numbers  went past five, but that would be the only thing that I wish.  I love the opposite cards that were added (available in the Lilliput Station group files).  So very cute!!!  The cutting was great for skills that are still developing.  The difference between the hungry caterpillar and the brown and furry I thought was a great idea.  To have both adds variety.  All in all it was really great fun. We worked on it off and on  all day.  They so wanted to finish it.   Great job !!!!!!!  ~Dacia C. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really like how they personalized this and  added to it. Great job guys!

You can see another review and more pictures here: Our Family Adventure. And here are a few blog posts and a picture from someone who did the pages for an interactive notebook: Foundations Academy.

 

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August 25, 2007

Please buy my product! ;o)

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After years of making free notebooking pages, I've finally decided to make something to sell. This is a preschool interactive notebook (folderbook, lapbook, etc.) that I made to use with my three year old. If you are interested, please click on the link under the picture. It is $6.25  Thanks! Melissa

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interactive Notebook

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May 31, 2007

Encouragement Lapbook

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Last week my husband asked me to make a "large" card for the children to decorate to cheer up a friend who was having some medical  difficulties (that turned out to be nothing after all). The problem was, his truck was in the shop so he was using my vehicle and the only "large" cardboard I had in the house was file folders. OK, I thought, we'll make her a lapbook.

I used a single file folder and added a cardstock extention in the middle. On the front, I used stickers to write "Laura's Encouragement Book" and added a verse (Isaiah 49:13) and some stickers for  decoration. Then I went through all my files of HOAC lapbooks and blank templates to see what might be appropriate.

 

Since I am writing about this, I'm sure you can tell I am please with the outcome. The children said it was the best lapbook they've ever  done- it was certainly the most fun! Here's what we included:



Bible shape book with encouraging verses; a "gratitude journal" and "answers to prayer" books for her to write in; mini matchbook with a title above them that says "nine people who hope you have a great day" numbered on the outside and our signatures and little pictures inside; Psalm 145:3-5 typed fancy and framed scrapbook style; a "God does great things" booklet; pictures of our silly kids; a flap book with jokes; a wheel with " five things the Telling kids like about you"; a blue ribbon shape book with prizes awarded for her good qualities; a poem we wrote about her, and the back is covered with the kids hand prints and says "We see the fingerprints of God when we look at you!"


Now I must admit, we don't do a whole lot of lapbooking for school - notebooking just seems a lot easier- but we might do more of this  type of thing for grandparents, Christmas gifts, etc.

I just thought someone might be able to get some ideas from this. If nothing else- Remember, if you have any lapbook kits, you never know what those booklets might be good for! So buy more HOAC! LOL           

 

 

 

 

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April 17, 2007

Free Resources to Create a Polar Lapbook or Unit Study

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Here are some links to printables and websites I've been collecting for a polar unit. I'm not sure when I'll get around to doing it, but I thought someone else might be able to use them.

Polar Animal coloring pages

Polar Bear info and activity sheets

Polar Regions of the Earth leveled reader

Arctic Animal Fact Cards & activities K-3 & 4-8

Penguin Fact Cards & activities K-3 & 4-8

Polar Animals Wheel

Animals of the Arctic Tundra activities and spinner

Wild Arctic Fun Guide

Alaska Wilderness League Kids' Page

Arctic ABC

Animals of the Arctic

Activity Pages

Arctic Studies Center

Penguin border notepage

Igloo shapebook

Penguin shapebook or coloring page 

Polar Bear shapebook or coloring page

Seal shapebook or coloring page

Arctic and Antarctica comparison chart

Arctic and Antarctica "Did You Know" boxes

Arctic Facts shapebook

Penguin Song

Polar Regions venn diagram

Activity Guide For Big Enough Anna book

Polar Bear Unit Study

Alaska and the Inuit Theme Page

Iceberg Links

Crafts:

Inuit Activities

Arctic Pals made with Nesquick bottles

Penguin Felt Ornament

Soap(stone) Sculptures

Pipe Cleaner Penguins

Arctic Animal Crafts

Iceberg Experiment (percent above water)

Iceberg Experiment (how salinity affects)

Make a Model Paper Iceberg

Food:

Inuit Recipes (let me know if you try these!)

Cream Cheese Penguins or Hard Boiled Egg Penguins

Penguin Cupcakes or Polar Bear Cupcakes

 

On Top Of An Iceberg

(Sung to: "On Top of Old Smoky")

Original Author Unknown

On top of an iceberg, All covered with snow,

I saw my first, penguin And I wanted to know.

Oh is it a bird,

Or is it a fish?

I looked at his feathers,

And knew which was which.

I said, "Mr. Penguin,

Which species are you?"

He said, "I'm an emperor,

And not a gentoo."

I said, "Mr. Penguin,

What's under you patch?"

He said, "It's an egg,

It's ready to hatch!"

I said, "Mr. Penguin,

Oh, where is your wife?"

"She's out in the ocean,

She'll be back tonight."

Said Mr. Penguin,

"Her name is Jill.

She's out in the ocean,

Feeding on krill."

The next thing I knew,

I heard a small peep.

And I saw a chick,

At the emperor's feet!

 

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