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Sep. 11, 2008

Our First Lapbook - Autumn 2007

Posted in Creekwood Academy

I finally got pictures of our first lapbooks. I made them with my children last autumn. I wanted to find a compact way of displaying the skills my son was learning with his therapists as well as a way to keep some of the little projects he made with them. Then I found out about lapbooks. It seemed the perfect solution.

The ones I did with my son last year are perhaps not your traditional lapbooks, but it worked for us. He had vision therapy (he has low-vision issues), speech therapy, occupational therapy and general developmental therapy. I took the fall pictures his therapists did with him and the skills he was learning (pre-writing, coloring, cutting, gluing, color matching and so forth) and created a lapbook containg those items along the autumn/Thanksgiving theme.

This post will show pictures and descriptions of my son's Thanksgiving lapbook from 2007. I hope our simple ideas will encourage you to try lapbooking with your child.

The front cover says, "We Are Thankful". One of his therapy projects was a large fingerpainting of a pumpkin. It was far too big to keep whole, so I took a maple leaf shaped plate I have and traced the outline on the pumpkin painting. I cut the leaf out and mounted it on colored paper for stability. I found the graphic for "Thankful" online and created the title with it. To reinforce the sensory/texture lesson he was learning with the fingerpainting, I had him spread colored glitter glue on the front of his lapbook (using glitter was his sister's idea - she wanted sparkles on hers!). I also wrote what skills the different elements of his lapbook demonstrate so we will be able to remember years from now what he was learning.

Inside are elements that illustrate the different skills he was working on with his therapists:

I had him color a picture of the Mayflower and practiced saying "boat" (speech therapy progress was a very tricky one to include in the lapbook!). He used a bingo dauber to make the brown dots, and cut pieces from strips of red, orange and yellow paper. Then he practiced gluing the pieces he cut to leaf shapes and matching the colors. I found several pictures of fall produce/food in those same colors and he matched them and glued them nearby.

Attached underneath the boat picture is "T" for turkey and thanksgiving. This was pre-writing practice. He was learning to make vertical & horizontal lines, starting at the green dot and ending at the red dot (top to bottom and left to right). He made these lines without assistance (and that was a big step!).

Next, below that page is a turkey picture for more coloring practice. He also loved making turkey sounds with this one (actually, he liked it best when Mama made turkey sounds!).

The last layer inside his lapbook has a finger rhyme song we practiced for fun and to help him become more aware of his hands and to strengthen his fingers. Below that is a picture of pilgrims - I chose a colored picture so his lapbook would not be mostly white. He did not like to do much coloring and it made his hands tired easily if we did it too long. There are also a few colored metallic turkey decorations on the side. They are actually seasonal confetti that we kept to decorate the lapbooks. The shiny surfaces helped catch DS's eye (vision therapy at work!).

Folding the right flap in shows the Bible verse we were learning. DS tried to say some of the words, but at the time they were too difficult. It was still important to include it, and the picture above it added a little more color. And you can see a little more glitter too.

On the back of his lapbook, I attached a picture he brought home from the church nursery class one week. Considering the neatness of the picture, I think one of the teachers helped him considerably (aka: did it for him!). There are a few light scribbles in the lower right hand corner where DS made his mark. It's a turkey and he loves circles so I included it, even though he did not contribute much to this one - it's still cute.

I hope you enjoyed this little tour of our first lapbook. I'll show my daughter's lapbook in another post.

Nov. 25, 2009 - Thanksgiving and the Mayflower

Posted by Anonymous

Very nice plans for homeschooling!
Happy Turkey Day.

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