• Jan. 10, 2008
Civil War Lapbook Intro and Week 1 Directions
**Edited on 4-29-08 **Click this link to see nice, ready made templates for a Civil War Lapbook. http://www.homeschoolshare.com/civil_war_lapbook_templates.php ** Lapbook Directions for Week 1 We will be making the mini books at home between co-ops. I will supply you with templates, pictures, and directions for making your mini books. Remember, this should be fun! If it’s causing stress, take a step back, regroup, and try again another time. Save all of your mini books in a ziplock bag and when the co-op is over, you will turn all the mini books into a lapbook (or several notebook pages- whichever way you want to go). If you decide to go with notebook pages, use white or colored cardstock. Three hole punch it, and glue the mini books directly to the cardstock. It’s a combination of lap booking and note booking. This is probably what I will do. Pick the booklets that are right for your child. You don’t have to do them all. Also, feel free to add on if something else interests you or you have another idea. Keep in mind that photographs go great inside a lapbook. Take pictures of your kids with their projects and find a way to incorporate them into the lapbook. What kid doesn’t like to see a picture of themselves?! The amount of writing, coloring, cutting, gluing your child does is up to you. It is certainly fine for you to help them! I usually cut out and fold most of Taylor’s books unless they are very simple or she really wants to do it herself. Don’t try to do them all in one day. Pick one or two mini books to do at a time. Although I am giving you templates to print for most of these books, you can make a lot of them yourself with out wasting all the unused paper on each page. It’s totally up to you! Save your scraps- they make great mini books. A huge thank you to www.homeschoolshare.com ! Most of the templates I used have come from there. Supplies needed- Mini Books: 1. Map 2.Important People 3. Timeline 4. Bugles 5. Drums 6. Taps 7. Vocabulary **If you have a teen or older child doing a lapbook also, they might want to include some booklets on these topics: Don’t worry, there won’t be this many books for the other weeks! This is a link to the free book download from WOWIO. This is the book that we based our Civil War Co-op off of. The book is called Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself. I will be adding links to the other weeks booklets as I get them done. Here is a link to the Civil War Lapbook Overview . Here is a link to Weeks 2 and 3. Here is a link to Weeks 4 and 5.
Scissors
Colored pencils
Crayons
Markers
Glue stick
Blank index cards (or cut up cardstock)
White paper
Colored paper
Printer
File folders
Stapler
For this you can just save the blank map the kids filled out in class. Cut it out. Fold it in half, then in half again. You will glue one small side to the folder. That way it will unfold when you want to see the map.
There is a template for this. Print it out- preferably on colored paper. Print the Important People page out on regular printer paper. Cut out the pictures and glue one to the front of each little book. On the inside of the little books you can write some info about that person or use the words that are typed on the paper with the pictures.
Side by Side Mini Book
Use the accordion fold template. Cut it out and fold back and forth like an accordion. Use each section to identify an important date in the war. On the top will be the title. This is what you will see when the book is closed. The last section will be glued to the folder. If you need more room, print another page and glue them together at the ends. If it's too much room, cut off the excess.
Accordian Book
Print out the flip book template on colored paper. Each page will be used for a different aspect of bugles-why were they used, who were the buglers, important facts, other jobs, ect)
Flip Book
Print the cylinder shape book on colored paper. Write a different fact on each page. Color cover to look like a drum. Staple together.
Cylinder Shape Book
Print the shutter fold template on color paper. Inside, paste the verses to taps and write in the notes. Write any other relevant info that you wish.
Shutterfold Booklet
This will be an ongoing mini book. For now you can print the pocket template, cut it out, and glue it together. Use the index cards to add vocabulary words as you see fit. Put the word on one side, definition on the other. Maybe the littles can draw a picture. Store the cards in the pocket. Add new words each week.
Vocabulary Pocket
-causes of the war
-Emancipation Proclamation
-Gettysburg Address
-first aid/stretchers
