Resurrection Eggs Lapbook

This is a cute little lap book for Easter. It centers around Resurrection Eggs. I downloaded it off of this site:http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/jaminacema/500883/ . This lady has great lap books!

Happy Easter!

Astronomy Lapbook

Well, we just finished Exploring Creation with Astronomy by Jeannie Fulbright and this is the culmination of our work. I downloaded this lapbook from the Yahoo Group Notebooking2Learn. It is a wonderful lapbook created by Jessica (the moderator of the group). After each chapter in the book, we completed the corresponding mini books. It was a great review of the chapter for the kids.

In case you are interested, here are some great science web sites:

http://www.earthsunmoon.co.uk/

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Science_Interactives_for_MO_GLEs/

http://www.jeanniefulbright.com/notebookpages.html

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/games/levelfive/KC_Solar_System.html

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Space/Moon/Phases_of_the_Moon/moon_phases_4656.html

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Space/Solar_System/planets_3775.html

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Space/Solar_System/

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Space/Space_Exploration/

I hope you enjoy!

Art/Famous Artists Lapbook

Well, this is another idea that I had in the middle of the night when I could not sleep! I hope it is a good one.

There are always so many things that I want to do with the kids but cannot find time for- art is one of them. Theoretically, I was going to do this with the kids over the summer, but the list of things to do over the summer seems to be growing fast! We will see how it works out. Anyway, I used these books that I picked up from the used book store titled Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists. Our library has corresponding DVDs to go with them.

The first section I made a color wheel, light, major artistic movements, and little matchbooks that each focus on a different mode of art. I used an Usborne art book- Children's Book of Art- for this information and Homeschoolshare for the templates.

In the following sections, I highlight a few of the famous artists that I want to focus on (Monet, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Picasso, and Van Gogh). I made little books on the artist, their home country, and famous artwork. I also wanted a place were the kids could try to mimic the artwork itself and where they could do a bit of narration about the art.

Here are a few of the sites that were helpful:

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/artapp/collage.htm -Picasso

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/elemlessons.html- so many great ideas

http://pixilatedschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/learning-about-art-van-gogh.html - Van Gogh

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/occasions/vangogh.htm- Sunflower/Van Gogh

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/artapp/impressionism.htm - Monet

http://ebeth.typepad.com/serendipity/2008/07/a-is-for-art.html - Da Vinci

I think we may add to this once we get started because there is so much out there that we can use, but this is a good skeleton to start with.

Explorers Lapbook

I decided to create this lapbook for my kids to do over the summer. I found this great book at the library called Look it up Explorers, and I used it as the basis for my lapbook. I decided to divide the section into the Americas, Africa/Asia/Australia, and Artic/Antarctic.

For each section I made small matchbooks with different explorers on each one. I made my list of explorers using the book above. My intention is for my kids to read the section on each explorer and write important facts about them in the matchbook. Also, for each section I mad a fold up book with a map of their region inside. My plan is to have the kids track the voyages of each explorer in a different color.

As a second thought (and because I had extra room), I decided to include small books on different related topics. For example, with the Americas section I included books on the Incas and Aztecs, Sacajawea, and Scurvy. For Africa, Asia, and Australia I made small books on The Crusades, The Nile River, Confucianism, Buddhism, Easter Island, and The Great Wall of China. For the Artic/Antarctic I included books on Icebergs, Inuit People, Penguins, and Dog Sleds.

The lapbook is not tremendously in depth but for summer work it will do just fine for us. I hope you enjoy.

To help me make this book I used the homeschoolshare site because they have a wide variety of lapbook templates and Google Images. Sorry all of my pictures are sideways!:)

Getting ready for Spring/Botany ideas

This is a great site that will send you sunflower seeds so that you can plant them and hopefully attract bees.
http://www.greatsunflower.org/en

This site has ideas on lessons for Biomes and Ecosystems.
http://www.mbgnet.net/

Wildlflower Coloring Book
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/uma/urban/

Nature Center Lesson Plans
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/nclessons.html

Botany videos
http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Plants/

Nature Detectives
http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/club/

For Kids Naturely
http://www.naturely.com/

Great Freebies for St. Patrick's Day

1. Shamrocks and Shillelaghs includes background information on St. Patrick, shamrocks, shillelaghs, the Blarney Stone, familiar Irish songs, as well as pages of materials that can be used in your studies.
http://www.currclick.com/product_info.php?products_id=28616&it=1&filters=0_0&free=1&affiliate_id=40128%20&affiliate_id=49363


2. There is a biography of Patrick that is rich and engaging, rare illustrations for study and learning, a recipe for real Irish soda bread and an essay you and your children won't want to miss, entitled, "The Real St. Patrick".
What's inside:
The Real St. Patrick: An essay by Charles Mack
St. Patrick, A biography from Our Island Saints
Picture Study: Three In One
Picture Study: St. Patrick Expels the Snakes
Mapwork: Map of Ireland
Recipe: Irish Soda Bread
Copywork: St. Patrick's Breastplate
http://www.currclick.com/product_info.php?products_id=28526&it=1&filters=0_0&free=1&affiliate_id=40128%20&affiliate_id=49363

Walt Disney World Lapbook

Our family is going on vacation to the "happiest place on earth": so me, being me, wanted to squeeze every bit of possible learning out of the trip. I decided to do a lapbook that focused on Walt Disney the person and Disney World the place. I used my old favorite: homeschoolhelper for the templates and I just surfed the web to see what information was out there.

I found this great little site with all kids of printable coloring pages and other gems:http://disney-stationary.com/coloring-book/Disneyland-DisneyWorld.php. I used things from this site to make our cover and the books (on the different parks) on the last page of the lapbook.

I used some of the information that I found on the sites listed below as a basis for my books. I made a book for each of the following topics: the life of Walt Disney, Disney Timeline, Quotes from Walt Disney, The World's Fair and Walt Disney, Animation, the History of Walt Disney World, the different parks in Disney World, and Disney Facts.

http://ezinearticles.com/?History-of-Disney-World---How-Walt-Disney-World-Came-About&id=1126162

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney

http://www.norsknettskole.no/fag/ressurser/itstud/fuv/gunnargrodal/bio.htm
http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/quotes/quotes01.html

http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/timeline/index.html
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/mickeymouse.htm
http://www.mickey-mouse.com/themouse.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation
http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Secrets.html

I also had the kids make a flip book from this these sites so that they could see how animation works ( at least before computers!).

http://familycrafts.about.com/library/projects/blflipface.htm

http://pbskids.org/sagwa/color/flipbook/index.html

On the next section of the lapbook I have a book on Disney Technology and one on Disney Movie making.

technology- http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/10/69297

movie making-http://fromscripttodvd.com/disney_animated_features.htm

http://movies.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Disney_Movie_Scripts

Also in this section I have a Disney Cast Member ID badge that I found and printed and then cut and pasted my child's name onto it:http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l206/Liljeepz/dexter/banner2a1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1889468%26referrerid%3D93883&usg=__JDBy7JFX3j7znxpqscbJVK0kYr0=&h=197&w=800&sz=135&hl=en&start=7&sig2=ytkts4XmQYcdpTnI1JFuGg&tbnid=R-hVUPeIUp62rM:&tbnh=35&tbnw=143&ei=u1iLSfadF5XlmQfR76Q0&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddisney%2Bworld%2Bcast%2Bmember%2Bname%2Btag%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX

Finally, the last section is where we have books on each of the four parks at Disney World: Animal Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Magic Kingdom. My idea is that after we get all of our pictures developed, the kids will put their favorite memories in the corresponding books.

It was a lot of fun putting it together and I hope that it will be helpful for others. I also found some great printable coloring pages with Mickey and the gang that would be fun to color in the car on the way there:http://coloringpages.nick-magic.com/mickeymouse.html.