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I just received an email from Emmanuel Books promoting their new "Pope Francis Lapbook!" and I must confess, I just don't understand the appeal.
For those of you who use lapbooks, how do you implement them into your curriculum? Are they a primary means of education or do you use them supplementally? What ages do you usually gear them towards?
Do you see this as a "cut and paste" exercise, or do you have your children do the "research" necessary to find the images that go into their books?
What do you do with them once they are finished?
I must confess to being a homeschooling minimalist...
Thanks for your sincere answers and insights into this.
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I'm generally not a fan of lapbooks, but I will admit that during the conclave and election of Pope Francis, we did do the lapbook on Shower of Roses. We didn't do much school that week besides working on our lapbook, making a "Habemus Papam" flag, and researching information for the lapbook.
My oldest was proud of how it came out, and it was in such a nice format that it was really easy to look through, show to family, and display.
What will I do with it now?! Hmmm....I just don't know. LOL
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I've done several and I still don't get the point of them. Perhaps some kids learn this way. Mine just complained about all the cutting and pasting (and so did I). I don't get it either. Sorry I'm not help!
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My girls love them  - we do not do them often, but when we do this is how we do it.
I print off the minibooks, they find the answers (either from internet or books). They fill in the answers, cut out and paste the lapbook.
We are doing one now for the Human Body. We finished Science early, so we added a quick lapbook to the end of the school year. They are having a blast making it.
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I think they are great if your kids enjoy them- fun to make, plus looking back through them is an excellent review.
My dd is OK with them, but ds is not a cut and paste man. They make his blood pressure rise . He's more a read and discuss kind of guy.
I know we would do them more if I had kids who really liked them.
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I think they can be good for wrapping up a unit study, or for review. My son would rather look back over a lapbook than weed through a bunch of old worksheets. The lapbook is prettier and it's easier to see the most important information.
This being said, my boys don't much like cutting and pasting, and I would have trouble storing and retrieving lots of file folders, so I use mini-books as elements in our notebooking. It works better for us to have a binder with cardstock pages.
Since we've just recently started doing this, I do a lot of the designing myself. I take their worksheets and narrations and put them on pages. Or sometimes I cut and paste the mini-books myself and then let the children fill them out. This wouldn't work for me if I didn't enjoy it, or was very busy with other things, but for me it's a fun way of recording what we've done, and making review more accessible.
Another reason I like the lapbooking idea is that like notebooking, it's not dependent on a textbook or even a living book. If we are studying, say, a history book, and want to dwell on, say, Vikings a little more, we can do a notebook/mini-book project on Vikings. Sure, we could just go read a supplementary book on Vikings, and that is what we usually do, but sometimes I look back on a term and can't remember exactly what we read and what we learned.
On the downside, it is time-consuming and not all kids are into that type of thing.
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I have tried to do two different lapbooks with my oldest two, and they were  . It was torture! I always thought there was something wrong with us since it didn't work out.
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I've never done a lapbook, nor do I do notebooking. It probably makes me a bad mother, but I can't do all that prep work of lapbook. I know my limitations.
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Thanks for your thoughtful answers, ladies.
I find that I do very little in terms of "paper" work.
By nature, I am not a paper-producer myself. I am much more of a thinker and sayer.
However, I think part of the reason that I don't "produce" much may be due to a lack of discipline on my part.
One thing that I have always thought important is to examine my own "flaws" so as not to pass them onto my children.
Frankly, I wonder if it is my own laziness that prevents me from offering these types of activities for my own children, and if in not offering them, I am in some way passing onto them a trait in myself that I don't find particularly admirable.
Thoughts?
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I never did any lapbooks until this year with our studies for American History. We did the lapbooks from Homeschool in the Woods. They were beautiful. Some of the activities my boys were not into, but others they really liked. ALL of them thought their finished product was really cool.
As Willa said, it did serve as a review of what we studied. We made our own lapbook for Pope Benedict and were going to do one that Jessica Shower of Roses did for the election, but we got sick! Two of my sons *still* keep asking if we are going to make one for the election of Pope Francis.
So what I learned: some kids really like lapbooks. It did show me that some of my kids have a patient knack for certain crafts. They do make a mess and require lots of cutting and paper. I'm glad we took the plunge and tried it. If the mom is not into it or sick, kids ten and under can't do them by themselves.
I think lapbooks are just one way to tell back what you learned. I don't think they are the be all and end all of narrations. If you want to try them, give it a whirl! If you think the paper cutting would drive you nuts, then stick with oral or written narrations!
Or as Willa suggested, make some mini-books! Or don't!
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So glad you asked about lapbooks. As a newbie, I've been seeing them a lot on blogs and sites. Wondered what ages they were used for. Sort of looks like the kind of posters he had to do in his Montessori 6th grade.
Not sure if DS13 would be interested or not. He's not interested in much as it is! 
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We make them, and have fun doing them. I generally keep them in a 3 ring binder instead of in the strictly file folder lapbook format, so it is more of a notebooking format - more convenient to store. Cant stand those 3 folder with 9 extra flaps jobs!
Early on it was a bunch of prep work for me, but I would just do it when I was sitting waiting at martial arts practice or whatever.
We still use them, I ALWAYS buy them and print off. I don't have the patience to make up my own, and would go way overboard if I tried. Love the Apologia Science combination Notebook/Lapbook things they have now. The kids think they are great! We pick and choose some, no reason to torture ourselves over some crazy origami file someone thought up. I no longer do all the prep work and cutting and pasting, but I help if it is to tedious -
I find they really help mine retain information because they are playing around with it.
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It is only now, our 15th year of hsing that we are using lapbooks fairly consistently. Well actually not lapbooks, we are taking the lapbook components and gluing them onto notebook pages. Working for us.
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TxTrish,
Where did you find the resources for Apologia? I can imagine they would be a good complement.
Thanks.
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Hey, go to the website here Apologia Science website and then the notebooking journals are listed with each book when you click.
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Thanks for the link. I might add a couple of these next year.
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We did the Shower of Roses Habemus Papam lapbook and the kids really enjoyed it (our only one during our first homeschooling year). It took the place of our usual history, language arts, and catechism work over about 3 weeks. The boys liked the change of pace and it was a great way to learn about the history of the popes and the conclave.
I could imagine us doing one a year in the future. I think they'd get tired of the cutting and pasting if we did them all the time, but as a late-winter change of pace, it was perfect.
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