Vocation of Motherhood

The other day we found a great resource from Plaum and used their pages to make a lapbook. This is one of the quickest lapbooks Nature Boy has ever created. We still have a few more things to add but here is the basic format:

The cover simply has a picture of Pope Benedict (taken from a brochure from Church) and a picture of the Pope's Coat of Arms.

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The inside has a few maps (of Germany, Vatican City and of the cities in the U.S. where he'll be visiting) and some printout information from the pages from Plaum. We've still got a few things to add, but all in all it was one of the quickest lapbooks we've done yet!

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"Nature Boy" loves fishing and so it was only natural that his second lapbook would be all about fish, namely, Esox Lucius (northern pike). For this lapbook we used a variety of resources, including the Fish of Minnesota book, cut-outs from magazines (especially the boys' favorite, Field & Stream) stickers, and a "Treasure Island Map" font I downloaded from somewhere for the title of the lapbook.

Here is the front of the lapbook:

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And here is the inside when you unfold it:

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And here is the inside with the flaps unfolded:

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There is a space left open for a picture of him with a northern. We just haven't sifted from our mountain of photos yet to find the perfect picture. Uncle Jim is also pictured on the bottom middle, of course he had to include that!

Here are some of the things (fold-outs) we included:

• The number of northerns he's caught


• Bait used to catch a northern


• Fish-handling tips


• Assorted questions


• World records

Here is one of our favorite books, lapbook-style! Red really enjoyed this project, "Jamberry" is one of the best rhyming books we've ever come across! The boys have pretty much memorized this book over the years. We always pull it out when strawberry-picking season arrives.

From Lapbooks

To make this lapbook, we simply copied the front of the book using our color copier. The inside of the lapbook consists of:

Left hand side:

• Pictures of a boy and a bear (main characters in the book)

Middle:

• A printout of "compound word" pictures (printed off a website, I can't remember where!)


• Favorite berry foods


• A blueberry pie with blueberries colored on it and counted

Right hand side:

• A strawberry with a little rhyme printed on the inside


• Rhyme


• Coloring of a canoe

Pretty simple, but for his first lapbook we think he did a fine job!

I do remember visiting www.homeschoolshare.com for some inspiration.

Here are some of the resources we've been using to make costumes, a lapbook and for other activities for the big day:

Online Resources: (Costumes & Lapbook)    
                                  Unit Study by a Homeschooling Mom (GREAT resource!)
                                  Costume-Making   
                                  History Timeline -(for more simplified timeline,
                                  see below in the books category)
                                  Clip Art (Link is for Robert E. Lee, search for more)
                                  More Historical Clip Art          

Books: (Mainly used for Lapbook resources)

  Civil War For Kids, A History with 21 Activities
  Young Heroes of the North and South

"Civil War For Kids" is an excellent book.... full of ideas for activities we will use for the reenactment (ex.,"Rebel Yell Contest" and we'll probably make the "coffee can drum" for Red to use as a drummer boy). CW for Kids   also has a much more simplified time line we'll use for the lapbook.

 

Here are some of the resources we've been using to make costumes, a lapbook and for other activities for the big day:

Online Resources: (Costumes & Lapbook)    
                                  Unit Study by a Homeschooling Mom (GREAT resource!)
                                  Costume-Making   
                                  History Timeline -(for more simplified timeline,
                                  see below in the books category)
                                  Clip Art (Link is for Robert E. Lee, search for more)
                                  More Historical Clip Art          

Books: (Mainly used for Lapbook resources)

  Civil War For Kids, A History with 21 Activities
  Young Heroes of the North and South

"Civil War For Kids" is an excellent book.... full of ideas for activities we will use for the reenactment (ex.,"Rebel Yell Contest" and we'll probably make the "coffee can drum" for Red to use as a drummer boy). CW for Kids   also has a much more simplified time line we'll use for the lapbook.