Here is our first "lapbook", based on a read-aloud in the Sonlight curriculum. What an adventure this book has been! Tim enjoyed creating this lapbook almost as much as I did. The first picture is the "cover." There are so many resources available for making lapbooks it’s amazing and a bit overwhelming. My only advice is to choose a topic, or a book that your child is passionate about. The topic could be a hobby or a long-time favorite book. Or it could be a subject (frogs, a favorite biblical character or Saint, Christmas, Easter, sports, etc.). The possibilities are endless!
When opening up the lapbook, here’s what you see:
Left side is comprised of the big discovery in the book and the foods that are typical of the Island of Capri. Then there are geography maps we printed off the internet (notice I made him draw his own map of the Island for the cover, too.). Then we made "pockets" of vocabulary cards and the characters in the story. Finally on the right is a narration of the story by Tim, although I did write it out for him after much debate.
We could have done a lot more, added more folds, more information, etc. But for a first time lapbook, I think this is plenty.
Tim’s next lapbook will be about "Minnesota Northerns"
(or "snakes" according to Grandpa). He just caught his second northern
out of the river. This kid definitely has fishing fever. The other
morning we had to leave early for a trip to the Children’s Museum with
some friends. I went to wake up Tim and he groggily told me about his
dream about finding the ultimate tackle box for sale, and the various
lures it contained. (????) I guess I have too much estrogen in me to have a dream about a tackle box, but it certainly made his morning brighter just remembering it!
Well done you will become addicted to lapbooking I know we have, love your blog.
Nicky
Saw your post on Yahoo Lapbooking.
This lapbook is fantastic — especially for your FIRST! We loved this SL book too! It was so funny and suspenseful. (I’m switching to Winter Promise for American History though.)
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You did great for a first lapbook..Congrats