Country Study Outline

When studying a country – any country, region, or ethnic group – it’s handy to use a ‘menu’ for the children or you to follow and select from.

  • This ‘country study’ chart I’ve done is flexible and comprehensive enough to serve as a framework for a make-your-own lapbook on any country or region.

country-study - pdf, one page grid

  • Then scour your local public libraries and online at google.
    Try:   lapbook  SUBJECT     OR     free lapbook  SUBJECT.
  • We’ve just done India so typed in “lapbook India”    OR   “unit study India”   OR   ”lesson plan India”   – so much out there.
  • Search with other words eg. clothes   food   religion  
  • Also check out Google images – click open photo and right click save a few to decorate the lapbook.

Enjoy your lapbooking,
Johanna
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lapbooking101/ - from the beginning
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lapbooking7up/ - 12yo+ lapbooking

Welcome to the World of Lapbooking 101 …

 

- a how-to site of ideas for lapbooks with webquests and topical resources

 

How to Lapbook

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Lapbooking Topics

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Enjoy!

Johanna
Your Lapbooking 101 Host

Christmas

Luke 1 and 2 in the New Testament of the Bible tell what happened around the Birth of Christ in some detail with additional passages, well…, throughout the Bible but especially in Isaiah 9 and Matthew 1+2.

I love the wonder and awe of Christmas. The lights, decorations, and trees all add to this. Our family doesn’t do Santa Claus as we don’t think he has anything to add to the real story of the Gift-giver, who was motivated by immense love for us. And we don’t have to be good for us to receive His (God’s) gifts.

St Nicholas (December 6), a bishop from Myrna, Turkey, is celebrated for his generous gifts hundreds of years ago. This brings the focus for the season to giving and not getting.

This year our family hid little and homemade gifts on night of Dec 5th in each other’s shoes, surreptitiously. Bookmarks, letters, chocolate coins, small homemade photo books. I received a hand crafted paper jet plane from my 8yo boy – and a wrapped up car (one of his favourites)! What a blessing!

General:

http://www.squidoo.com/OnlineChristmasParty - scroll nearly halfway down to : crafts, food, gifts, traditions

Nativity:

http://www.lulu.com/content/1607938
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_62/1607000/1607938/2/print/1607938.pdf  – 18 pages, for a lapbook

http://www.lulu.com/content/2838022 - colour version
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_63/2838000/2838022/1/print/2838022.pdf (2MB)

 

 

 

Advent – Calendars

http://www.spirithome.com/advent.html 
http://www.spirithome.com/advent.pdf

http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjhol/a/advent125.htm

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7810629/Advent-Calender 

http://web.archive.org/web/20061208232607/http://members.aol.com/Sftrail/christ/advent1.html- Celebrating Meeting Jesus (6p, pdf) (-this is an archive page. I saved through ‘print’ pdf995.)

 

http://www.bisous.biz/scrap/scrap_ideas/advent_photo_instructions.html - Melyssa Connolly, or
http://www.bisous.biz/scrap/scrap_ideas/advent_photo_instructions.html
http://www.scrapoutsidethebox.com/tutorials/paper/advent.pdf

 

 

Jesse Tree

http://www.crivoice.org/jesse.html - story, making of, scriptures 

Paper Craft
Christmas Tree 

http://www.ss42.com/pt/christmas-tree/christmas-tree.html

Volunteers “Jesus Helpers”

What can your family do?
wider family – whanau, neighbours, “orphans and widows” in your community of faith.
Habitat for Humanity, Prison Fellowship – Angel Tree, Compassion/Samaritan’s Purse Christmas boxes, local faith-based Op Shop.

Article:

Sanity in the Celebration

1.  Aim for Sanity

Remind yourself of this aim each day as Christmas approaches. Deliberately  choose not to try to outdo anyone else. Focus on what is important for you and your family this season.

2.  Put People First

Visit, phone, or write to “old” friends. Remember the singles and solos – check they are not alone this Christmas.  Make room for what lasts. Trees, decorations,  wrapping paper, and parties are just the accessories (sometimes the excess-ories) of the season.  

3.  Break Bad Habits

Take time to examine your Christmas traditions. If they’re no longer sensible or relevant, lay them aside. Talk this over with your family and create new more meaningful family traditions.

4.  Make Room for Fun

In the midst of the pressured and commercialised Christ-mas, make sure there is room for fun. Set aside a day for cooking with the children. Allow the presents to be not-so-perfectly wrapped by not-so-coordinated fingers. Have folks over for a picnic, barbecue, or an evening. Relax – and laugh!

5.  Shop – then Stop!

Well before December, make a gift list, set a completion date, and a cost limit for each person. Shop leisurely in stages and record purchases. When you reach your goals -  STOP! 

6.  Ponder the Point

Christmas is Jesus’ birthday. Keep this central in all activities. Jesus, God’s only son, came to earth to serve and to save. This is the reason for the season. Let us celebrate God’s goodness to us this Christmas.

General Tips + Helps (Lapbooks Google Alerts)

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HUGE lapbook for History Fair
By J’s mum(J’s mum)
I know it happened earlier this year the History Fair but I wanted to post it here as we were talking about it the other day and that it was just like a large lapbook. A good idea for those bigger projects.
3 Kiwi Homeschoolers – http://3kiwihomeschoolers.blogspot.com/

Folding Instructions for a Lapbook – Homeschool Helper
Folding Instructions for a Lapbook – Homeschool Helper.
Dori’s Tumble through the internet! – http://dorioakes.tumblr.com/

Lapbooking
By naturalmotherhood(naturalmotherhood)
The main part of our day was spent putting together a lap book. The one we are starting with is a Grocery Store Lapbook. I thought it was a cute way to fit some basic math in (using money to count) as well as colors (reinforcing …
cleanandcozyhomeschool – http://cleanandcozyhomeschool.blogspot.com/

Big Plans, Little House – A Preview
By Sherry(Sherry)
I’ll be combining lapbooking and notebooking together – notelapbooking? labnotebooking? Not sure what you’d call it! But we will be using lapbook techniques and booklets but keep them in a notebook. This is just a very brief overview. …
Educating Emme – http://educatingemme.blogspot.com/

A Great Lapbook Link
By Marybeth(Marybeth)
I have had several of you write me privately, wondering what a lapbook is. Well, this link is a great explanation not just of what it is, but how to make one, step by step. I plan to bookmark this and come back to it again and again. …
Cheaper By The Half Dozen – http://marybethwhalen.blogspot.com/

Routine and digi lapbook
By Have Fun – Live Life(Have Fun – Live Life)
Last week we explored writing non-fiction, continued with times tables, watched Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar and started a Shakespeare lapbook. We took a break from Science last week as youngest wanted to look at WW1 after seeing her …
Have Fun – Live Life – http://havefun-livelife.blogspot.com/

Lapbooks
By MARGARETE(MARGARETE)
I have started a new blog http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com . I posted pictures of Katie’s first lapbook. So come on over and visit. Have a great day!
TRUE BLESSINGS HOMESCHOOL – http://trueblessingshomeschool.blogspot.com/

Lapbooking…
By Sunflowermommie(Sunflowermommie)
I have gone on a quest to find lapbooking materials to use in our homeschool. I thought I would share them here with you. There are lots of interesting resources here. There are some lapbooking templates available here. …
Sunflower School House – http://sunflowerschoolhouse.blogspot.com/

Lapbook Insanity
By SmallWorld at Home(SmallWorld at Home)
Back in the summer, my American Heritage Girls co-coordinator and I decided it would be a brilliant idea to make lapbooks this year for all the new members. The first award that a new girl gets is called her Joining Award, and there are …
SmallWorld – http://smallworldathome.blogspot.com/

Opposite Lapbook
PreK-1st What you’ll need: 2 manila folders, glue, scissors, stapler, print-outs, packaging tape, marker What you do: Fold 1st manila folder as shown in picture, label with marker “Left” and “Right” arrows, and write title with child’s …
SMILE Academy – Homeschool Blogger – http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/SMILEacademy/

Check Out My Very First Article on How To Start Lapbooking!
Anyways, I thought that I would share the link to it since it is all about lapbooking, where to start, lapbooking websites, books and more. Plus I shared a bunch of links for the fall lapbook that we just completed above which you can …
Huber Hof Academy – Homeschool Blogger – http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BChsMamaof3/

Lapbooking Blogs 4

TOPIC : Germany

Unit Studies Lesson Plans

Unit Studies and Lesson Plans are available in bulk online, but it’s knowing how and where to find them to suit your ’school’ needs.

A refined www.google.com search helps:

 ”unit studies”  
- Use the speech marks and add a common base word to define the topic eg lapbooks. Experiment with a few topic variations. eg.    mandela     “nelson mandela”     anc mandela       apartheid mandela

http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitstudies/a/unitdirectory.htm - by subject, grade level, A-Z

http://homeschooling.about.com/od/unitsaz/A_to_Z_Unit_Studies.htm

eg L includes Little House on the Prairie, leafy greens, Lewis+Clark etc

By academic subject:
eg. science, ss/geog, language arts
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/unitssubject/Unit_Studies_by_Academic_Subject.htm

http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/unitlinks/ - more! more!

Don’t forget about webquests :

http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/201/webquests/ 

http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/category/webquest/

http://lapbooking.tumblr.com/archive - check topics like butterflies, bread etc in March column

 

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Johanna W
www.lapbooking.wordpress.com
www.lapbooking.tumblr.com – webquests, resources for lapbooking studies

Flickr Photos

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

Join the Lapbooking flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lapbooking/ 

also
Lapbooking: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lapbooking/ 139
Lapbook : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lapbook/ - 553 
Lapbooks :  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lapbooks/ - 107

F R E E

FREE. What a drawcard that word is! right up there with SALE?!

Everything on this site is FREE. There may be a few sites that you pay to join up for full use of their site. But there is much on the internet about Lapbooking that is free. Just the right price for home educators and families.

 Check out some blogs, interactive sites (Web 2.0), photo sites:

http://banquet.stumbleupon.com/tag/lapbooking/ 

http://wordpress.com/tag/lapbooking/

http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/lapbooking
http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/lapbooks

** are you a visual learner? – this set must have the ‘wow’ factor! ** – http://www.flickr.com/groups/lapbooking/pool/ (372 photos)

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/LapbookingPhotos/photos/browse/556c - will need to have yahoo ID and signed up for LapbookingPhotos – booklets and folds pictures.