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Jordan, Jessie and I tried something new for Science this year -- lapbooking! We kept on with our favorite Science curriculum - Apologia - but added in lapbooking with some friends for a new twist. This year our focus has been on Botany using the fabulous Exploring Creation with Botany written by Jeannie Fulbright.
Since I am a lapbooking newbie we went with a complete lapbooking kit which we ordered from Live and Learn Press. It is specially made and sold at Live and Learn to coordinate with our botany book and they did a great job making it as easy as possible.
On Thursday afternoons we have two additional children come over and we complete our lapbooks for the week together. I have created a little game as a review which we play this way.... Each (pre-made) mini-book has questions for the children to answer in order to complete it. We take turns going around the table and each child has a chance to "play" or "pass" on answering the question. If he gets it correct he gets one skittle candy but if he gets it wrong he has to give one candy back. If he chose to pass he doesn't lose any candy and the question goes to the next child at the table. Usually we make up about 5 mini books each week and each little book has between 1 - 6 questions inside. It makes for a great review of what we studied that week and, of course, you keep all the booklets in a binder so you can look back at them
whenever you wish.
The pictures above show pages inserted in Jesse's binder with completed mini-books.
After we have finished our lapbooking we often complete other projects/activites given at the end of the chapter. Above is a photo of the leaves Jesse found and pressed into his binder.
Saxon Geometry
Streams of Civilization II
Apologia Chemistry
Progeny Press Lit
Wordly Wise 11
Spanish 2
AG - Teaching the Essay
Book of Proverbs/Health
Easy Grammar Ultimate
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Old Testament
Lord of the Rings
"Jordan" 8th Grade
Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra
Around NY in 80 days
Apologia General Science
CLE Lang. Arts 8
WWI & II Unit Study
Bible
Typing
Health
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The Great War
"Jesse" 4th Grade
Saxon Math 5/4
CLE Language Arts 4
Around NY in 80 Days
Science Around the Year
Health
CLP Our World History
Reading Comp. Book
Art with co-op
Roller Typing
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Prince Caspian
"Joshua" Age Four
StarFall On-line
Playdough
Learn to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Using Scissors
Listening skills
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