Lapbooks

Jessica and I have been so busy lately, and we have not worked on our lapbook at all for a couple of weeks. I feel terrible, and worry i am letting her down. But life has been so crazy here!

We are doing Little House in the Big Woods now.





I got it at Hands of a Child











http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/A-Little-House-in-the-Woods-Ebook-P749.aspx















When we get finished with this, we are going to do Marco Polo -



http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Marco-Polo-P79.aspx







Then she will go off to summer camp in July, and in August we are going to work on a set made by Hands of a child, but we got it at Curr Click a few weeks ago as a freebie. ( http://www.currclick.com/index.php?affiliate_id=37779 )
I just love it when they have freebies!!!


I have decided to try to interest my 13 (nearly 13 anyhow) year old daughter in lapbooking - but she isn't much for "cutting and gluing" so i may cut out the stuff ahead of time, to save her from getting aggravated. She and her younger sister are so different. Jessie can take the printouts, personalize them, cut them, glue them, and be ready to do more and more - Rebecca will do it, grudgingly - she isn't quite the artsy crafty child as her sister. But i do think she will enjoy it when she gets started.

Ok, late - off to bed, big party in 4 days for my new teenager!

Lapbook Links galore

The past few days I have been collecting links to lapbooking sites that have come across in some of the different email lists I am on. Mostly for my own ease of use, i am going to put them all in a post, so when I am in search of things, I know where to find them :)

I am so terrible at remembering to bookmark pages, and then end up searching through emails for certain links! So - this is more an aid to me, but may be of use to others as well.

On with the links :)

CurrClick- monthly freebies, lots of really cool stuff,

http://www.currclick.com/index.php?affiliate_id=37779

Current freebie download for lapbooking is Hands of a Child's Honeybees e-book project pack!

Check it out here - http://www.currclick.com/product_info.php?products_id=2229&it=1&affiliate_id=37779

Hands of a Child - also has quarterly freebies- and being a Super Member has wonderful benefits!

http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Default.aspx

This Quarters freebie is An Amelia Earhart e-book project Pack

http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Quarterly-Freebie-C151.aspx

Homeschool Helper - Free Lapbooks - Lots and LOTS of ideas and information here

http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks.htm

Homeschool Share - free lapbooks, templates, etc

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Lapbooks_at_HSS.php

Lapbooking on Squidoo

http://www.squidoo.com/lapbooking

Mini Books and more - many links on this page

http://www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/student_folder_websites.html

Templates for Library Pockets and other things to make -

http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/library.htm

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/lapbooking_resources.php

Deer Lapbook

Jessica has been working on her Deer lapbook (from Hands of a child http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Deer-Ebook-P669.aspx )

We got this set to use when we went on spring break vacation to Southwest Texas - Big Bend area, LOTS of deer there! But Jessica got very sick on the first full day we were there, and ended up getting emergency treatment at a little clinic there, for her bronchitis and asthma. Needless to say, working on her lapbook kind of took a back seat. She did do a few activities in it while we were at Sanderson, but she really got to feeling pretty sick.

Well here it is about 6 weeks later, and she is finishing up the Deer lapbook.

It has been fun and a real interesting experience for us, as it was our FIRST lapbook ever to do. I didn't print it here at home, but had hubby print it at work, so it was all printed on white paper. With our next one we will be working on (Probably Little House in the Big Woods ) I will print at home, using colored paper for the elements.

She chose the layout herself, having stuck things on as she was doing it, then realizing she might ought to do all the mini books first, then attach - a lesson learned that we will remember for the ones we do in the future.

But she is proud of her lapbook - even though it took an awfully long time to complete (factor in she broke her leg a week after coming home from Spring Break vacation, so she has been kind of out of pocket with work lately!) But we aren't allowed to call lapbooking "schoolwork" :) Jessie has claimed it is too much fun tht it can't be school !!

Let me know what you think! And I really wish I had printed it at home on color paper, but I was low on ink... (am low again, but payday is Friday so will stock up before printing Little house pages!)