We just finished a wonderful lapbooking unit on horses!  Back when Eli was only a month old, we did our very first lapbook on snow.  Although it was fun and a great learning experience, I didn't put much effort or planning into it.  This time, I took time to plan and  - wow, what a great unit it's been.  The kids have learned SO MUCH and have a beautiful keepsake of their work to remind them of our time spent.

I used the lapbooking unit from Hands of a Child and added some of my own assignments as well, especially for Mahayla.  Her added work included a circle story about a horse, a horse report, taking/saving/printing pictures of horses, a checklist of horse care skills learned, a log of horse books read and songs learned, a map of horses around the world, drawing horses, a visit to a tack shop and horse farm, completing a crossword of breeds, and creating a horse comic strip.  Caleb did some of these things, too.  There were some of the activities we didn't do from the Hands of a Child unit  because I preferred to have the kids learn a few of the things in different ways.  The lapbook books can get a little tedious, so I spiced things up a bit. 

Here are the covers.  Mahayla's is a picture she drew.  Caleb's is a dot-to-dot he colored.

Here are the back covers - a world map.

Here is Caleb's - two folders put together.  In the first. I'm holding up a story he narrated that we stapled at the top.  In the second, I'm holding up a Draw Write Now horse picture he drew.

Here is Mahayla's.  Hers is three folders put together.  The second picture shows an animal report and a drawing stapled at the top.  There are lapbook activities underneath.  The fourth picture is the third back of a folder.