Dawn K Homeschool

I love all of her "lenses," but I had to mention this one: http://www.squidoo.com/lapbooking The boys and I are working on two lapbooks this year: explorers and mammals. I'll post pictures of their finished products! We are using this for our marsupials: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Marsupial_Lapbook.php

To bring closure to our amphibian unit, I had the boys make these frog lapbooks! You can get the free patterns and instructions from: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Frog_Lapbook.php Another free frog lapbook can be found here: http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks/frogs.htm Ben's Lapbook Nathan's Lapbook

I just adore lapbooks ! I attended a lapbooking workshop hosted by Tammy of Tobin's Lab ( http://www.tobinslab.com/ ) at a HEAV conference a few years ago. It was a blast! The concept is a natural extension of scrapbooking , so perhaps that's why I am so drawn to it. If you ever have an opportunity to take a class led by her, do it! I still have the lapbook we made in her class. They offer many resources for lapbooking including Tammy's own creations and also the ever-so-popular Dinah Zike's resources. I confess, I have not made lapbooks with the boys yet, but I plan to do a couple this year. I think it will work perfectly with the invertebrate study we are doing. I may, alternatively, buy one of those large cardboard project displays that the craft store sells and we can each contribute to that. It's the same concept, though it will look more like a science fair display. We could create a separate lapbook for each group of invertebrates we study and affix th...