Our littlest one, Traveller, Finished up two of his lapbooks. He finished up one on the House Wren and the other on Knights/Castles/King Arthur.
On the House Wren, We are still reading one of our favorite read-a-louds, Thornton Burgess Bird Book. Traveller has locked in and LOVES a character in there, who's name is Jenny Wren, a House Wren. When he told me that he wanted to do a lapbook, I asked him if he wanted to do a "Bird Lapbook?" His response, was, "NO, I want to do a Jenny Wren Lapbook, and he was very emphatic." So, we have a fairly small, lapbook , because it is all about the House Wren.
Here is what the outside looks like. Notice we painted the outside, blue and cut off the top to look like a bird house. I also printed a picture of a house wren, from the computer, and he colored and glued it:
This is the lapbook open. The left hand flap, is a picture of a house wren, with copywork of what he learned about it. The center of the lapbook has the following:
The top is 21 days to hatch a chick from Considering God's creation, a small pocket with what the egg looks like, about the nest, etc, and the right, is a booklet that is called "All about the House Wren" (more copywork):
The center flap opens as an additional flap is added. To the left is a layered book, with the Animal name classifications (kingdom, phylum, etc) of a house wren. He had to look these up and identify them. The next booklet is a Bird in Flight and talks about a bird's wings. We also glued a feather that we found in our yard to the back of the booklet. The Bird in flight was also copied from Considering God's Creation.
Next is his Knights/Castles and King Arthur Lapbook. Now, it is a large lapbook, but this is ALL he has wanted to do all year. He is still reading books, etc, but we ran out of ideas and things to put into the lapbook, so we decided to put it together. We started this LAST AUGUST, so we have worked on it all year. There are three additional flaps to the lapbook.
Here is the outside of the book, closed. I folded the lapbook, regular way. Cut the notched out of the top. Took Gray paper and cut it in 1/2 for the gate, and with a black pen, drew the gate bars (portcullis) and then took a piece of brown, the same size as the gray, and taped it to the back outside of the folder. So the gate folds open. We spray painted the outside silver gray (what we had) and the inside gold.
Here it is with the outside gate down:
Here is the lapbook open. On the left hand flap, is top, our family coat of arms, and bottom left is a small pocket book with the character qualities of Chilvary. The center, is a map of camelot, bottom center left is a small accordian book with pictures from when we went to the Renaissance festival and he told about it. The bottom center right, is his drawing of a map of the inside of a castle. The right inside flap, top right is his Knights vocabulary, and bottom right is a small pocket book with characters, and he named the characters of the King Arthur Story.
Center flap, out folded to the left. The top left is copywork from the Bible, Ephesians of being a Knight of the Faith (Helmet of Salvation,etc). I got the paper from www.donnayoung.org for the copywork, btw). The bottom left is one of 7 booklets. We copied pictures from a Castle book (McCaulay), and they were pictures of the different people that built the castles. He had to read about them and write what their jobs were. The center flap, is a pyramid of government during that time period. Below it is a biography of Joan of Arc (who is one of his favorite knights, btw). The right flap is as before (vocabulary, characters, etc):
Here is the lapbook, completely folded out:
Here are the left two flaps. They are mini books (a sheet folded 4 times but makes 2 booklets. They have the builders of the castle with their responsibilities inside.
This is the center back of the lapbook. The top is a mini book with Poetry from Alfred Lord Tennyson (my grandfather's name was Alfred Tennyson, btw). We have a book from the poet, and there were pages and pages of poetry about King Arthur. Our little one did some copying of the poetry in this booklet. The bottom center left, is the responsibilities of a knight and the bottom right is his written narration of the story of King Arthur.
Here is his copywork of his poetry from his minibook. Paper from www.donnayoung.org:
Back of Center flap:
Top one is booklet on how to be a knight (page, squire, knight and their responsibilities) and the other is the Round table with the names of knights.
This is the back of the lapbook, closed:
We are very proud of the progress he has made, and with all of our boys.
Today was a good day. We did school, but mainly are preparing for their international night with our Homeschool group. The oldest two are doing pottery with clay and writing handout reports, etc for their presentation, and the youngest was reading for his paper. The youngest is also doing Astronomy and we have molded some planets out of Model Magic from Crayola (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!! We got it with a 40% off coupon from Michael's). We put craft wire in the top and he is painting them now. We will finish them with glow in the dark paint!
Have a great day!
Southern Belle
