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Sep. 12, 2008

Our First Lapbook - part 2 - Autumn 2007

Posted in Creekwood Academy

Like I mentioned in the previous post my son had therapists working with him to help with his multiple developmental delays. Because they came to our home at the time, they kindly included his sister in their art & craft projects. I included more detail in the things we did for my daughter's lapbook, but some of the elements will look familiar if you saw the previous post on my son's lapbook. My daughter was also 3.5 years old, but has no developmental delays - in fact she can't seem to learn things fast enough. She wants to know & do everything now! I hope you enjoy looking at her first lapbook. We certainly had fun making it.

DD's lapbook is two-sided (two folders attached back to back). The first side (shown in this post) is in an autumn theme with a few Thanksgiving elements. The second side (to be shown in a future post) illustrates on a basic level what she was learning about the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. More about that later, but now, part one of DD's Thaksgiving lapbook.

First is the cover page. Again, I traced the leaf shape on her pumpkin fingerpainting and cut it out. DD helped mount it on colored paper for stability and traced the words for the title. Then she put glitter glue for added interest (what can I say - she's a girly-girl who loves sparkles!).

Inside are some fall theme pictures DD colored to practice staying in the lines and following directions. The Turkey picture in the center is a "color by letter". She had to look for the letters and match the correct color. It was a bit of a challenge for her, but she loved it when she could see the picture completed. She also did a very good job of staying in the lines. The picture underneath it on the left was a similar idea. I wanted her to practice following directions and to color the fruits & vegetables in the colors God made them in nature. I outlined each item with marker and she filled them in with crayon. Beside that is the Bible verse we were working on.

On the bottom right hand side is a little "turkey math". The colored turkeys were in a separate strip. She colored them then cut them out and glued them on the page in the correct order. It was a little easy for her (she's been counting for a while now), but she liked the turkeys and the cutting & gluing practice. At the top of each of the side flaps are mini books I found online. Below are a few pictures of what's inside each mini book.

The first one on the left says, "I Am Thankful For..."

The second one on the right says, "The Colors I Eat on Thanksgiving Day".

In the center, under the color-by-letter picture was some writing practice with the letter "T", and under that was a page with leaf matching.

With the right flap closed you can see her "pumpkins from seed to harvest" sequence.

DD traced the numbers and cut out the shapes and glued them on for the covers of our little flip books. We used the colors one would see during the life-cycle of a pumpkin. Inside are illustrations of the different stages of a pumpkin.