My new found love for Lapbooks.

It's Saturday. Way too hot to take the kids out to play, but a perfect time to stay indoors.  Instead of having the kids sit in front of the TV all day, you can do something fun and educational.  My 16 year old is notorious for sitting in front of the TV all day watching football.  The little ones don't watch TV much because we spend the majority of our days doing school work.

For about $5.00, this covers the file folders, glue sticks and copies, you can make a lapbook.  The file folders I purchased were 50% off so I basically spend $3.49 on the 8 file folders.  I downloaded the free file online, sent it to my local fed-ex (they know me by name) and printed out one set.  I then made additional copies at a local print shop.  If you have a printer at home, you can print it out. Since I made more than 200 copies for my homeschool co-op, the copies came out to about 5 cents each. The Teacher one (mine) is in color, but you don't have to print it out in color. The kids copies were in black and white and although not as colorful, I had the kids color in the words and the flaps for the color tabs.  Below you will see what I used, the final lapbook and the file folders I purchased.
Before I ventured in this wonderful educational tool, I would look at lapbooks and think, "All that fancy work, that looks too hard, only skilled mother's could do this!  But, I found out that anyone can create a Lapbook.  What a great way for my kids to learn!

Here's the link for a free Lapbook

www.homeschoolshare.com/spanish.php

For our end of the year study on Rome, the kids created a Lapbook about Rome and it's History. 

Here's the link for Rome Lapbook

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ancient_rome.php

Educational Warning: A Lapbook takes time. Don't be surprised if you spend 2 or more hours having fun creating these.  Weekends are the best for creating these. And Summer will be here soon!

Until Next Time, 

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Jennifer