Our Homeschool Style: Lapbooking

Monday, January 14, 2008

Winter Vacation Book

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We had such a great time on our trip up North. I've lived in South Florida all my life and had only seen snow once and my boys never ha...
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Friday, November 30, 2007

Works in Progress

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While I'd love to post pictures of the lapbooks we've been working on for the past several weeks I have to confess that we have (at ...
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Dragonfly

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This doesn't pertain to our lapbooks, but the boys and I were at the park today and the dragonflies were buzzing around. They are so fas...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Using photos in a lapbook

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I like to use our own photos in our lapbooks, but printing can get expensive. While printing pictures from my SD card using the kiosk at my...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

History of Halloween

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I actually made this lapbook for the boys as a homeschool "gift" from Mommie ; ) It's kind of crafty cutsey because I used s...
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Dinosaurs

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Two of our local museums recently had exhibits about dinosaurs so we gathered information from them as well as National Geographic and book...
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The Five Senses

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I used a set from the educational store for the colorful titles and graphics and we supplemented with materials from edhelper.com and enchan...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Saturn and the Cassini-Huygens Probe

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We went to our local planetarium and saw a presentation about Saturn and the Cassini-Huygens probe. We made 3-D models (which you can see...
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Monday, August 27, 2007

Bats and building a bat house

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I don't remember exactly how we got interested in bats. We did see a lot of them on a summer vacation in Virginia and when we go to th...
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Coral Reef Life

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We're lucky to live near the Florida Keys so now that the boys are old enough to snorkle we got excited about learning about coral, how...
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Dragons

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We fell in love with Brendon Fraser's reading of Cornelia Funke's "Dragonrider" (as well as dragons' roles in other f...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Sharks

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We went to our local Museum of Science and Discovery to see an IMAX 3D about sharks and that led us to our next lapbook. We cut out great ...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

Our Pet Book, Fall 2006

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Time to do a new folder to include all of the new characters in our zoo ...
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The Life Cycle of Monarch Butterflies

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Spending time in plant nurseries led us to our next lapbook on monarch butterflies. We were looking at some broccoli plants when Patrick no...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Our First Garden

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During the prep time before Hurricane Wilma we made several trips to Home Depot. Brian saw seed packets for sale and decided he wanted to p...
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And then there was Wilma...

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We had finished our first folder about our pets when Hurricane Wilma decended upon us. It took us weeks to complete and again, is more of a...

Our first lapbook: Our Pets, Fall 2005

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We did our first lapbook in the fall of 2005. I had discovered Dinah Zike's The Big Book of Books but wasn't quite sure what to do ...
Saturday, August 11, 2007

Getting started

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Hi-- We discovered lapbooking a couple of years ago and it has evolved to become the main source of structure in our eclectic homeschoo...
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