Ancient Civilizations - DONE!

We have finally completed the Giant Lapbook that we began last spring when we started studying the ancient civilizations! We have a had a LOT of fun completed this, but we are also BOTH rather glad that it is over! All graphics and cuts that were used were from the History Pockets series created by Evan-Moor. While we did not do every part from the books we did do a TON of them! KM is very proud of what she has produced!

We will be taking a break from our History Time Line for a little bit to do a 5 week unit study on Inventors! I will keep you posted and be sure to share links for any useful sites!

Nearly Done - Prehistoric Study

We have just about finished our prehistoric study...

KM is very proud of the lapbook that we created from various sources...

The bottom pocket holds this Pangaea puzzle which shows how the continents shifted.

This bar graph is on the back.

We have a HUGE map that I printed out from Owl & Mouse -
I love that you can print them in all different sizes, this one is 4x4.
We covered it with clear contact paper so that we can stick things to it
and use dry erase markers on it.

KM researched where the different fossils had been found and then posted them.

We got lots of printables from Learning Pages - their site is mostly designed for Pre-k to 3rd grade but you can tweak a lot of the cut-outs and murals to fit older age groups or to use with multi-age/level kids ~ which is what we did hear.

KM told SC a story as they placed the different species on the different areas of mural.

We will be ending this area next week with a special trip to the Museum of Science to spend the day going through their evolution outline. We are also going to spend a good deal of time that day studying the tamerians! I will let you know how it all works out!

Final Summer Project - Bee Lapbook

As her final project for our summer session KM decided to complete a lapbook on Bees!

Our Olympic Lapbook

The Olympics have ended and we had a great time watching it, learning about it and creating a lapbook to remember it!

We used bits and pieces from several different free sites for this one!

We created a game board and pieces to go along with a trivia game we found.

KM took a lot of care with choosing which pieces she wanted to use for this one.

Her favorite part of the whole 2008 Olympics though had to be those cute little mascots!!!

I think we are starting to get the hang of this lapbooking thing!

Hooray for Lapbooks!

I came across this lapbooking thing a few months ago and we had decided to try it out over the summer. I really really like the idea of it! KM thought that this was going to be a great alternative to doing reports - which of course she detests!
I had downloaded a few totally piece together ones from currclick.com and Homeschoolshare.com as I thought we would try these out first to get the hang of it. However KM decided that since she had studied the pre-revolutionary American period up to the Declaration of Independence she wanted to try making one for the 4th of July. We found one on the revolution, then took some coloring pages and clipart from other places and here is what we came up with:

Not too bad for our first shot!!! She was amazed at how many of the answers she knew off the top of her head. I guess this whole immersive learning thing is working and lapbooking will absolutely be a big part of our summer!!!

Hope everyone has a Fun, Happy & Safe 4th of July!!!