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This topic has 10 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 4 months ago by Carla.

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August 9, 2012 at 11:58 pm
bethanna
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Always researching curriculum, aren’t we? 🙂 I am looking for activities to add to history, maybe next year. I was looking at some sites with lapbooks, but have no experience with any. Do they fit in with CM education?
August 10, 2012 at 12:13 am
missceegee
Participant
I have a CM friend whose family really enjoys them. We tried one once and my kids and I HATED it! All that cutting and folding and gluing seemed like busywork for us. We enjoy notebooking more, but don’t do it all of the time. I think it’s more important to determine if the lap booking is enjoyed by your kids. It is a type of written narration.
For activities, we’ve enjoyed the hands and hearts history kits.
August 10, 2012 at 1:45 am
pangit
Participant
We are going to try lapbooking this year to go along with our history in SCM module 3. I’m getting a lapbook from A Journey Through Learning. I hope it goes well. My girls, 8 and 6, enjoy cutting, pasting and putting things together.
I wanted to get the kit from Hands and Hearts, too. But it just isn’t fitting our budget this year. It looks great and I know my girls would absolutely love it!!
August 10, 2012 at 12:13 pm
jeaninpa
Participant
We used one of the lapbooks from A Journey Through Learning last year and it was a big success. I had resisted trying it because I thought it sounded like busywork. All my children, ages 7-13 liked it. I liked the way it incorporated listening, written narration and LA skills. It was a good way for the olders to help the youngers and they could get creative with it and make it more ‘theirs’ or just follow instructions. We set aside one morning a week to work on it — for about six weeks.
I think Knowledge Box Central also has some good deals on lapbooks right now. I’d check at CurrClick as well.
August 10, 2012 at 3:58 pm
chocodog
Participant
I liked the Lapbook idea but like missceegee said the cutting and pasting and putting it exactly where it was suppose to go made them not like it. They liked it more when they could just take a file folder and fold it to meet in the center. Then they put the pictures where they wanted and wrote things like a journal where they wanted. It seemed to be a lot more fun for them. We did one for the Wright Brothers. We took it off of another mothers website. She did the work of getting all of the pics. It was much easier. I would suggest making it as simple as you can get and going from there. I loved the ideas at “Homeschool in the Woods” but we need to make them a little less busy for the kids. I did like the idea that they had it all together though. I just have to break it down in 1 file folder at a time. 🙂 Good Luck it can be a wonderful thing if you just let them do it their way. Just provide the glue, scissors and paper.
Blessings on your endeavor!
August 10, 2012 at 4:00 pm
pslively
Participant
Have you seen the Time Travelers series from Homeschool in the Woods? They are wonderful. They all include a lapbook, but really they are so much more. We have done several of them and they’ve all been good. I just pick and choose the activities rather than trying to do everything.
August 10, 2012 at 4:23 pm
sheraz
Participant
We pick and choose activities out of the ideas and let the girls create their own layout by using card stock that I hole-punched and put in a 3-ring binder (instead of file folders to control the clutter).
Here are some resources for lapbooks:
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Lapbooks_at_HSS.php (free ones)
http://www.currclick.com/index.php?keywords=lapbooks+&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=&sdate_from=&sdate_to=&stime_from=&stime_to=
http://notebookingpages.com/archives/2330 (she had some templates to use to create your own lapbooks for any subject)
If you use lapbooking as a narration tool, it can be CM in nature. But there is a lot of busy stuff too. I have to admit we only did a few lapbooks before we moved on to the much less time-consuming (and still creative) notebooking – which is basically a drawn or written narration, although you can add more. That works better for us.
August 11, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Marcee
Member
My kids hate them for the same reason as missceegee’s. It really depends on your children-mine saw it more as busy work. If you have a child that likes open ended projects and doesn’t mind the cutting, pasting etc. then it might be a good fit. I have a Wiggly Willy and Perfect Paula (Cathy Duffy’s terms) and lapbooks are not a good fit for them.
August 11, 2012 at 4:07 pm
amandajhilburn
Participant
I am going to start module 3 soon and will use this to make lapbooks about Rome:http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ancient_rome.php
I’ve found that if you do a little at a time it is not so tedious. 🙂 We will make one minit book a week and then have a full lap book after about 18 weeks of school.

January 27, 2016 at 2:40 pm
bethanna
Participant
I am looking at lapbooks again. 🙂 We have done/are working on a couple free ones I found, but I’d really like to try something from Homeschool in the Woods. Back when I first posted this, I think I looked at the ones missceegee & pangit mentions from Hands and Hearts, but I can’t find anything like that on their website now. Does anyone know if the site has changed? Or do they just not offer the history kits anymore?
January 27, 2016 at 11:26 pm
Carla
Participant
We lapbook on occasion but never with a kit. I bought this book:http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Lap-Book-Handbook/dp/B000SIADFQ years ago and have only ever done our own thing. We enjoy it but it is a project to us and so we usually just do 1 special topic a year this way.