Leaf Unit Study, Lapbook, Notebook Ideas

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

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

http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2007/10/fall-time-lapbook.html

http://www.ourbigearth.com/2008/11/02/the-home-school-lapbook-learning/

http://www.squidoo.com/tree-lapbook

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45271190@N04/5028190893/in/pool-lapbooking/

The Ten Commandments

 The boys and I are about to start a study of the Ten Commandments.  I plan to have them memorize the corresponding New Testament verses.  Brother Hight handed out those verses Sunday but I lost them.... but I did find this website and plan to use it.  My printer isn't printing for the moment so I am putting that link here:
Ten Commandments link... click here

I found a Ten Commandments song and have been teaching it to my Sunday School Class.  I am using that same song with the boys.  Justin said he was ready to start a new lapbook, so I am glad they want to do that.

Fruit of the Spirit study (lapbook pictures)

I had been wanting to do a Bible study about the fruits of the Spirit. So when I saw the lapbook idea, I decided to go for it.

We learned a lot when we made our first lapbook . The one lesson we learned was to take our time and spread the work out as long as needed. This time, I used someone else's idea instead of trying to create from scratch. But this time I printed out everything and we worked on each part a little at a time.

We worked on our Fruit of the Spirit lapbook for about 2 1/2 weeks or so (all material and ideas from:http://www.lapbooklessons.com/FruitoftheSpiritLapbook.html) .


Here are the boys gluing and decoupaging...


Ryan doing a tracing assigment...

Playing the memory game...

We printed, cut, and decoupaged this board game to to a file folder. I used key rings to mount the question cards to the folder so that they won't get lost.

Game question example:

"A kid at church is always getting picked on by other kids. They call him names and throw things at him. How can you show kindness?"

If you answer correctly you get to move...

This is a pocket in Justin's folder where we keep the memory game:

Memory game...

Inside each booklet, there is a verse or definition...

This was a fold out tracing activity (mini-book style)...

Decoupaged work-book cover...

One of several worksheets...

Copywork...

Writing assignment...

Page insert...

Ryan's slider (kept in his envelope and hidden under a page)...

We are currently using our books to memorize the verses under each fruit and study what it means to be filled with the Spirit.

Fruit of the Spirit study day one

We are in revival this week, so I am doing a Bible memory study with the boys instead of heavy schoolwork. Here is my link for resources I am using (so I can refer back).
http://www.lapbooklessons.com/FruitoftheSpiritLapbook.html

We are cutting and pasting right now. I will add some pictures later on, Lord willing.

The boys think this video is hilarious:

Lapbooks: A fun way to learn

I have heard of lapbooks in the past, but we had never tried them...until today.
There are some pros and cons to doing the entire lapbook in one day (as we did today). If you do it all in one day, you get the mess over-with and the lapbook finished. However, because kids aren't the most patient individuals, they tend to rush through everything. Then it is harder to make a nice, neat book. One really needs time to add all of the information.

My kids really enjoyed the experience, and and now they have a nice lapbook at which to keep and look. We plan to do more of them in the future, but I will probably have them work on one mini book at a time. Then when we are finished with each part they can assemble the completed book.


A lapbook starts with a file folder - folded in the middle. The tabs fit nicely together.


I had bought some scrapbooking supplies for a project that I was planning to do in December, but I never used it. Because of that, I have some nice colorful paper and Mod Podge (which is a wonderful glue. It dries clear and shiny).
We are using The Usborne Children's Encyclopedia for Science. We have been studying facts about the earth, so we chose this as our topic. I did a search for a true picture of the earth from space. We found a nice one, and the boys cut a circle out of the scrapbooking paper and painted it.

Here is Justin's accordian mini book with earth facts...

I can't remember what you call these, but you turn the top portion to reveal facts. We used brads to fasten the middle.

Justin decided to make an icicle to write cold facts about the earth and a sun to write hot facts.

He made a mini booklet to write more items about the atmosphere...

Justin's finished product...

I cut some old camo pants into strips and stapled them to the front to make a tie closure.

Jonathan's lapbook. The nice thing is that you can have them customize them according to their age and patience level. He made an accordian book and a little slider circle.

He also drew a cute sun and icycle to represent weather patterns.

Ryan isn't finished with his. After painting the earth and writing one word, he was ready to be done. Hopefully we will do more on his tomorrow. :-)