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Amanda
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Posted: April 21 2009 at 9:50am \| IP Logged

Hi,

I am feeling really dense, but I can't figure out how to introduce lapbooks to my dd, age 5. (I have an older child, but never did lapbooks with him.) I have a feeling this will be one of those questions that seems so basic that people don't know where to start in their responses, but here goes anyway...

I thought we'd start with Mike Mulligan, because she loves that book. I have Vol. 1 of FIAR and have mentioned a few things from it casually as we're reading. So, would the next step be to say, "Let's make a little book with the new words you've learned from this book--look, I have some cool pictures we can paste in it"? Then I would do the same thing with another subtopic, and another, and eventually start pasting them into a lapbook?

Or should I show her a completed lapbook online and ask if she wants to make something like that? I think that could go either way--she might be inspired, or she might be overwhelmed.

Please ask me to clarify if I'm not making sense!

Thanks!

CandaceC
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Posted: April 21 2009 at 12:25pm \| IP Logged

Hi there,

I personally don't like coming up with the components myself...I love the ones that Homeschool Share does...and they are free.

Here is the lapbook for Mike Mulligan...

Mike Mulligan lapbook & resources

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Amanda
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Posted: April 21 2009 at 12:49pm \| IP Logged

Thanks! I had printed out some of that stuff, but I still don't know how to introduce it to my dd.

Birdie
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Posted: April 21 2009 at 1:44pm \| IP Logged

Hi Amanda,
My kids don't like premade lapbooks, they seemed to at first of course they are older than your little one at 8, 10 and 11. Anyway, I have had success with mainlesson books, these are just blank sketch books I call mainlesson books, I tell the kids they need to fill up a page about the book we just read together, or the book they read and I show them an example. The example could be a minibook of vocab. words, a drawing of something that relates to the book with labels or a few sentences about a favorite part of the book with a drawing. I personally find that if the kids are told they need to make something to fill the page they have tons of their own ideas on how to do that. I don't know if that helps or not, but that is what I do.

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Posted: April 21 2009 at 3:01pm \| IP Logged

Here's what I did:

1) I showed the littles a completed lapbook on line. (This definitely got their interest going.)

2) I then suggested that we make one and wouldn't that be really fun? (They loved the idea).

3) I got all the supplies out and set everything up so they could pick and choose their own things. (Look here are all the things we need to make our own lap book!!)

4) Then I suggested pasteing in some pictures. (Which ones would they like to paste first? Would they like to color them? Would they like to draw their own?) They glued them in their book.

5) Now how about some of the new words that we learned? Let's make a flap for our new word. Which one do you want to do first? Then they glued that in their book.

6) We just continued talking, choosing and pasteing in the same way until all of my pre-printed material was glued into their books. Then they liked to add a few of their own touches like coloring the front and back, adding their own drawings, writing a note on a flap explaining how they liked the book etc..., and signing their name.

I hope that helps,
Jody

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