And lastly is that they cover many different areas of learning at the same time.
For example, these are just some skills and learning Levi did with this unit study:
- Reading (several books about wolves)
- Cutting (lapook elements)
-Gluing (lapbook elements)
- maps (locating places on a map, longitude/latitude)
- using a ruler to draw straight lines
- using an Atlas
- math (comparing populations, sizes of wolves/body parts)
- art: wolf drawing (cutting, drawing, patterns, using a ruler, gluing)
- test taking: wolf quizzes
- handwriting: filling in lapbook elements neatly
- writing: writing a book report
- poetry: Acrostic poems
- vocabulary related to wolves
- literature: exploring wolves in stories
- learning about folklore and stereotypes
- science (including just about everything we learned)
- researching: finding answers to lapbook questions
- language arts: plural endings (i.e. wolf to wolves)
-Latin: Latin names for wolf subspecies.
- teaching: sharing his lapbook with others
This is the cover of his lapbook, inspired by the artwork I found here. Levi drew lines on paper, and then colored each with a different pattern. Then we traced the wolf outline, and he cut it out to glue on top of the colored lines. The hill is a wavy piece of paper he glued on.
Inside of the lapbook:
The books we used:
Sources:
Books:
A Unit About Wolves
Wild, Wild Wolves
Reading Discovery Wolves
Animal Questions and Answers: Wolves
Eyes on Nature Wolves and Coyotes
Amazing Wolves, Dogs and Foxes
Zoobooks: Wolves
Wolves: Seymore Simon
Wolves: Gail Gibbons
Eyewitness: Dog
Crafts/Activites:
Origami wolf
Artwork inspired by
Embroidery Design
Lapbook:
Gray Wolf Lapbook (Homeschool Share)
All Wolves! A Fun Study! (Homeschool bits)
Awesome! could see one of your projects at church? we'll see u Sunday!
ReplyDeleteLisa, Eric ,Max
I will have Levi bring it to show you tomorrow!
DeleteThis is my first time making a lapbook. How many folders did you use? How did you put them together?
ReplyDeleteHi Jannell! I think for this one we used 2 folders (its been a while!) There are lots of ways to assemble a lapbook, for using 1 folder, you open it flat, fold each side in to meet in the middle. For 2 or more, you do the same with each folder and then glue them together side by side. Usually what I do is fold 1 folder and lay the mini-books/flaps etc on there, and then see if I need to add a second or even third folder. Most of ours need about 2. Sometimes I also just tape a piece of cardstock on to make an additional "flap" that can hold more content. AND sometimes I tape or glue a piece of cardstock on the back to make a pocket (good for putting in entire worksheets, or things that can't be glued in).
DeleteIf you have a look at my other posts you can see what a bunch of the lapbooks look like, in some, Levi made a video, so that might give you a better visual as to how they come together.
I also found this blog post that has a quick explanation near the bottom as to how she puts hers together, but again there is no right way to do it, whatever looks right to you is fine!
http://conversaving.com/2013/04/01/a-journey-through-learning-lapbooks-a-schoolhouse-crew-review/