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• Ziploc bags are great for storing mini-books.
• Let you child do their own books.  It's their efforts that will help them remember, not yours.
  
• Don't ask the child to redo his/her work if it is "messy."  It discourages the child from doing more if they think they're going to have to redo future work.  (Ouch...I made my 12yos redo one booklet because he wrote something on it in the wrong direction...I've since apologized to him.  )
  
• Choose a topic for a mini-book...THEN choose a type of book that fits the number of "bits of info" that corresponds to what your child comes up with
  • For example, you're child wants to do a mini-book on the number of days in a month.  First, they divide the months into groups, 30-day months, 31-day months, and 28/29-day months.  That's 3 groups.  You might choose a 3-flap Q&A booklet.  Then they remember a poem that you say to teach them the number of days in a month.  They would write each of the stanzas on a flap ("Thirty days hath...").  Under the flap they would write the names of all the months that have that many days. 
    
  • You don't have to cover all the information available...just the information important for your child to know...or the information that they remember...even if it is not ALL the information.
• Some other booklets and the "amount" of info they hold
  
  • 2 bits of info ~ shutter fold, 2-flap Q& A,
  • 3 bits of info ~ tri-fold, 3-flap Q & A
    
  • 4 bits of info ~ quilt/envelope template, square petal booklet,
    
  • Single subjects/bits of info ~ matchbooks
  • Multi-flap booklets (shutter, tri-fold, Q& A, etc.) can be adapted for as much information as needed.
  • Shape booklets that are stapled may be used for as many bits of information as needed (although you may not want to make it many Bits of info since you'll have to cut out the intricate shape many times)
  • Petal booklets - correspond bits of info to number of petals.
  • etc...
• Pockets are useful for items that cannot easily be attached OR booklets or sets of cards (memory work) that you want to remove on a regular basis for review.
  
• When the subject is "done" according to the kids, open your ziploc and start arranging your booklets into a lapbook, being sure to create extensions as necessary.
• E xtensions...
  • Attaching a second file folder to the first
  • Cutting a file folder in half and using one or both of the pieces to create "flaps" attached at the top and bottom of interior of your folder.
  • Adding pieces of cardstock attached to your file folder with heavy/durable tape.
  • I saw a lapbook at the workshop that was a normal "book"-style (opened on the right side rather than a "shutter-fold".  Extensions were added to both the "front" and "back"  of the inside pages that folded down(vertical) and out (horizontal) from each section that folded down.  It was a beautiful book that I kept going back to and "ogleing."  If she'd have let me take it home, I would have in a heartbeat. 

• Homeschool Helper
• Homeschool Share
• Mirkwood Templates
• Homeschool Treasure Trove Yahoo Group
  • (The group where I store files I have created...I have a number of blank templates that I have created)

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