Stacia's First Lapbook

Evidently Stacia has been noticing all the attention and approval Zander is getting from his "Viking Book."

She came out today to show me her "Jungle Book" which she went off to make while we worked on science mini-books. ::snort::

See how nicely she folded it to look like a monkey?

She told us the story (like Zander lectures on Vikings) as she unfolded her book.

She showed Mike when he got home too. He was suitably impressed. I think I may get her another pre-school lapbook to work on...or create one for her as we go along. I know Homeschool Share.Com has lots of free ones....I think I saw one on Monkeys there. Lisa - the country folders there are going to be great! Thanks for checking. I had searched there for "Japan" but not "countries". LOL

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

THURSDAY....THURSDAY

Parish Advisory Counsel

House of Faith

Jared and Jamin went to Baker's Street with friends

Cy called and we ended up going to dinner...he, the four youngers and Mike and I

School - lots of school

I realized that my children enjoy lapbooks this year, a lot. I also realized that the "ocean box" we are supposed to be making in Apologia: Zoology 2 was simply not coming together.... I went searching for other projects to go along with our science. I settled on trying Live and Learn Press. They make some wonderful "Learn N Folders". Lap Book is actually a trade marked name from Tobin's Lab.....but Live and Learn Press' learn n folders are lapbooks. They have many free offers if you sign up with their yahoo group. I've never purchased from them, and they are more money than I'd usually spend....but this is a HUGE set...covers each lesson of our science book. This is a new concept for us....it's a Learn N Folder Notebook...in other words you make the mini-books and then mount them on card stock. Punch the card stock and put them in the kids' science notebook. We pulled it out today and we're impressed. The directions are clear, the art is cute and colorful...and it was a GREAT way to review the lesson we had finished. I do think I'll try to do a booklet a day instead of waiting and doing all the booklets at the end of the lesson.

The older two learned to find the bold print and look for their answer from a text. They copied their own work.


Zander likes to cut and dictate his work to me. He did make an AWESOME photo of the Great Deluge. ::snort::


This girl did not like lapbooking at all last year...but she is enjoys school with us....and discovered she does like scrapbooking. LOL


They each made two pages today - front and back. Here are the front sides. You can see that Zander on the right went for straight ole mini-book on cardstock....The other two made free use of my scrapbooking supplies. I will NOT be transporting stickers and paper....I don't think....so we'd best use them. LOL

I'm very happy with this set. I'll buy from them again for our science next year. It really seems to be the right mixture for us between review and crafty. ::snort::

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

Wednesday Glimpses....

I was thrilled to have my camera back. I dropped it and it quit working. Mike took it to CA and it worked. I got it back....and..... It TAKES photos but you can't see a THING on the screen while you are taking the photo.....it's hard to center when you don't have a view finder or preview screen. ::snort::

Arielle and Nolan finished up the "ornaments" for our Lent Tree.

Stacia, Zander and I went to the BOOK STORE....their favorite....

...the library. I got all the books for children that they had on Japan. I'll have to try the main library and the base library later on.

Zander "bought" me flowers.

Back at home I found this....

It made my day! The note not the 1/2 eaten loaf of bread. ::snort::

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.