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I am so grateful to Mary Chris for finally making Lapbooks click for me. We are all into it. Michael is really visual, so I've taken an AP Biology course outline I found online, scrounging up books we have at home and having him read and lapbook through the whole outline. The graphic organizers are perfect for memory-intensive courses.
With everyone else, we're doing literature-based units as a family. We just finished up China and, at Kim's suggestion, made a family lapbook instead of individual ones. It's stuffed with narrations and illustrations. Paddy made a travel brouchure; there are maps and flags; and even a red envelope with tangrams. The kids are tickled pink and we have something tangible to show Mike when he returns.
Over the weekend, I finished plans for a rainforest unit and did all the cutting and folding. While I was at it, I put together a kit, with all the folds and lesson directions and a reading list for a friend with a new baby. I think this may become my standard new baby gift for homeschool moms. What could be better than two weeks (or more) worth of lessons and projects in a bag? Imagine if someone on a list were expecting and five people each volunteered to make an extra lapbook when they did one with their kids and then donated it to the family with the new baby. It would be like maternity leave in the mail!
Tim--where to upoad plans and pictures?
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click on the "edit" button under your message above.
on the next page, you will see the normal editing box with your post inside it. between your comments and the Font/Size/Colour dropdowns, you will see the formatting buttons (bold, italic, etc.). the last 3 buttons in that row are:- Add Image - creates img tags inside your post for an image that is already hosted on the web somewhere
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I think your gift idea is a lovely one, Elizabeth.
Even without the lesson plans, just the folds and paper would be a good idea, imo.
I know that when I first heard of lapbpooks, when I had several babies and toddlers, I did not get into them right away.
Then, one day, when my youngest was around 15 months, I sat down with my Dinah Zike book, while Anthony was sleeping in the afternoon, and started making folds and homemade books. Soon, the younger boys, the middle graders and the high schoolers were interested.
Just having the books made or ready to be made inspired my children to start making, writing , drawing or researching their own topic of interest.
Lapbooks can be inspiring starters for self education .
I would have loved to receive such a gift! 
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It was great to look at your lapbook yesterday Elizabeth. It is wonderful.
I have struggled with how to put in narrations into a lapbook. I would never have thought of making them smaller and putting them into their own fold. I really am not very computer literate 
Leonie, I like your idea of just having a whole bunch of folds made up, I always lose my little ones while I am doing the folds.
I have also changed the way I am looking at lapbooks. In the past I never would have put in information the children did not write or narrate to me. This time we have a timeline of Chinese history that I basically did myself, I think these lapbook are great resources to go back to and use as tools for further study.
I am looking forward to sharing lapbook ideas in this forum.
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marychris wrote:
I have also changed the way I am looking at lapbooks. In the past I never would have put in information the children did not write or narrate to me. I think these lapbook are great resources to go back to and use as tools for further study.
I am looking forward to sharing lapbook ideas in this forum.
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Mary Chris,
I like that idea of Mom making her own lapbooks. My kids aren't much into arts and crafts but I am, and I agree, there are times I could use that reference tool.
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And Willa, I find that when I get into something, like journaling in my journal or making a lapbook or homemade book for me, then some of my children will follow my trail.
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Hmm, Leonie, I'm hoping to do better about that this term... give my children time to follow my example.
They don't consistently imitate me, my boys in particular.
I meant to ask you sometime for advice about that, but I don't know if it goes on this part of the board.
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I am enjoying our baby beginnings with lapbooks too. We've done two so far: Ginberbread Baby and Reindeer. We are working on Very Last First Time right now and won't lapbook it, but soon I plan to row Salamander Room and lapbook it with the stuff we started at teh Fall Retreat.
I don't have any lapbooking "how to" books. Dinah Zikes and something from Tobin's Lab seem to be most popular... What do you think would be the most helpful book for a newbie, especially where folds are concerned. I'm not too creative when it comes to inventing my own folds.
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Janette,
I really like Debbie Dubuys book The Ultimate Lapbook Handbook (or something like that) you can order it from Tobin's Lab.
Dinah Zike's Big Book of Books is also very good. I have seen Zike's how to video and I have friends who have found it very helpful. I do not know how it compares with Tobin's Lab video.
I am also interested in the new CD-Rom that Tobins Lab offers it looks like it has a ton of lapbook examples.
HTH!
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The videos have all been very helpful to me, because I'm extremely visual. I have TONS of lapbook websites that show different lapbooks. If anyone wants any of those, I'd be happy to post them for reference. Being so visual, the pictures really help me.
I LOVE lapbooking, but we also LOVE notebooking as well! We use both, and love both!
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TracyQ wrote:
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Tracy, would you post those sites? That would be a great resource.
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Sure, Elizabeth! I'd be very happy to! I will get them together, and post them all later on this evening after we have dinner, and I go out with my sister and mommy. 
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Worked on this this morning. It's easy to copy and paste to make a Word Document to save if you want it. I hope it helps everyone! Tracy Q.
LAPBOOKING RESOURCES
Examples of lapbooks, portfolders, shutterbooks, flapbooks from many hsers:
http://www.geocities.com/mamabrown_1122/lapbooks.htm
http://www.heartstringsandhomethings.com/BibleLapbooks.html
http://www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/portfolders.html
http://www.geocities.com/highland_heritage/earthlapbook.htm
http://www.waldsfe.org/Resources/flapbooks.htm
http://www.ilovejesus.com/school/handmaiden/lapbooks.shtml
http://www.waldsfe.org/Snap%20Shots/brazil_flapbooks.htm
http://www.unitstudies.com/books/index.cfm
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/a_bzn_mom/my_photos
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mamapow1/my_photos
WEBSITES WITH LAPBOOKING INFORMATION:
http://www.tobinslab.com/downloads.htm (has downloads for a lapbooking how to. click on page 1, then page 2)
http://www.geocities.com/gibsevengang/lapbooks.html
http://www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/student_folder_websites.ht ml
http://www.geocities.com/highland_heritage/shutterbooks.htm
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/photogallery/a/classgaller y.htm (photos of lapbooking family's publishing center, as talked about in Dinah Zike's books)
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8mnnp/dinahzike.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8mnnp/dividethedata.pdf ( Divide the Data resource in3 sheets, color coded in PDF) Incredible resource!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/7380/schoollinks.htm l#lapbook
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I have just recently started lapbooking and I really like it. I thought it would help my son Ryan who is autistic and very visual. My problem is he can't think of ways to present info creatively so I have to do that. We are working on one for the Northeast and one for the solar system. He likes what has been done so far and I think he is retaining the info a little better. I guess my question is how much of the planning do you do and how much involvement do the children have in the appearance and presentation of the info? I am ordering the Tobins Lab book someone mentioned so maybe that will help me. Tracy, that was a great list you posted, I am promising myself some time tonight after the kids are in bed to look at all those sites.
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MEBarrett wrote:
I guess my question is how much of the planning do you do and how much involvement do the children have in the appearance and presentation of the info?
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I'm glad the sites helped. I put them in my favorites, then update when I can, so I can give them out when people want them.
As far as the how much planning WE do and THEY do, it depends on ability of the student.
In younger years, you would plan more out, and even help them with their minit books, etc., but then it changes as they get older more and more. It's almost like a shift so that by the time they're in high school, they are using it to show what they learn in a really great and visual way!
Lapbooking is great especially for hands on and visual learners.
Also, lapbooking isn't supposed to be an ADD on to curriculum, it's in place of it, or a different WAY to show what they're learning, to replace more workbook sheets and text type of learning.
Hope this helps. :)
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Thank you for so many links!
I have done various kinds of books over the years with my kids, but these lap books are fabulous! We're working on one for Pecos Bill right now. :)
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I just want to add that we are loving lapbooks! My daughter made two in two days. This is my eight year old for whom reading isn't all the way clicking yet. She's made huge strides this year, but is still not fluent. Anyway, we made a Pecos Bill lapbook yesterday and today she made one almost completely on her own for the myth Atalanta and the Golden Apples. She had on head phones listening to Jim Weiss (shout out to Lissa! Thank you for the recommendation - we love these CDs). She sat quietly for an hour painstakingly trying to write out the story as she paused the play button. She invented lots of the spelling and asked for help from me when stuck. She wrote an entire page in writing she can read to herself. She was ecstatic!
The panels include pictures from the internet, a map of Greece, her own artwork and some "find the golden apple" panels.
My 13 year old is getting ready to start a lapbook for one of his US History topics from our co-op. I'm thrilled to do something fresh. Needed that boost.
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I think that lapbooks are finally clicking for me. Last night I woke up around 3:00 am ( well, this morning) and couldn't go back to sleep. I received a revelation! 
I have done two lapbooks but they didn't feel right to me. It is like looking at something that you know has great potential but not being able to unlock that potential. I think I figure out what was keeping me from unlocking the potential.
First, I was approaching it "piece meal". I was going from the particular to the whole. Instead I should look a the global picture of the topic and decide what information I want to present. Reading one of the websites that Tracy posted helped me with that, I think. I should ask the question what do I want to learn, or what do I want my children to learn, or what do they want to learn? Then with that information I can decide what to include in the lapbook and what kind of folds would better accomodate that information.
Second, I think I was too focused in following someone else's plan and approaching those plans as a list to check off rather than a guideline to follow. The plans correspond to someone else's way of thinking and are presented as such. If I couldn't think of the topic the same way or were not familiar with the topic, some of the items on the "checklist" didn't make sense to me.
So, when I do the rain forest unit ( I wonder why rainforest is some times spelled as one word and sometimes as two) I am going to :
1- Look at what we know about it and what we want to know
2- Gather information using Elizabeth's plans and our library
3- Sort through the material and see which ones better help me to get the information I want.
4- Think about folds> This is going to be the hardest part since I feel that the creative part of my brain is just waking up.
5. Have some folds ready for the kids to see and use as a model
6. Decide how to accomodate the mini books on the folder
Now that I have that process decided I have some practical questions:
what kind of paper do you all use?
do you use legal size or letter size folders?
do you use any kind of software to help you with the creative part of the lapbooks?
Thanks Elizabeth and all for letting me think through this,
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We've done two lapbooks -- one using Gingerbread Baby and the other on reindeer. My biggest problem was trying to figure out how to get everything to fit on our regular sized manilla folder. I kept shrinking and cropping, modifying the layout to make it all fit...
It didn't dawn on me until I uploaded pictures of Marybeth Foss' Gingerbread Baby lapbook (currently in the Gingerbread Baby Plans thread) that it doesn't have to all fit in the folder. Her lapbook has basically a whole extra page attached to it that folds up, giving her an extra page to work with. I wish that I'd seen this before we did our own lapbook -- I think it really opens up more possibilities and eliminates the "space" constraints, whether you use legal sized or regular sized folders.
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Janette:
I had that revelation when I looked through all of the sites posted by Tracy (I think) earlier in the thread. I was in the middle of a solar system lapbook with Ryan and worried about being able to include all the material. When I saw some examples of lapbooks with that extra page, and also the idea od folding another folder in the same was and gluing them together at one flap made it so much easier. Now we have plenty of room. Take a few minutes and go through that list and look at as many examples as you can. It made so much more sense to me after I did.
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