Teach It - Lapbooking

Our absolute favorite thing to do when it comes to homeschooling (besides field trips) is lapbooking! Some of the best lapbooking sites are listed below so be sure to check them out. In the past, we did a post on a Chinese Lapbook, and we have done lots of videos on lapbooking.

Today, we worked on a basic lapbook for each girl.

Jenelle is 9 years old, and in 3rd grade. Her lapbook covers the 50 states (and their capitals), single digit multiplication, a page of cursive copywork, an empty page so she can write in the titles of books she reads, simple fractions, and a gallon man. They all decorated the front and back of their lapbooks/mini offices. Hers says "I got an A+ in School".. get it? haha

Gallon man - Print one here.

Gracelynn is 6 years old, and in kindergarten. Her lapbook covers money, fire/tornado/earthquakes, address & phone number, time, seasons, and simple addition. Her cover is a drawing of our family. :)

Sapphire is 4. Her lapbook covers shapes, numbers, letters, left/right/up/down, money, days of the week, and colors. Her cover is a picture of her standing with the homeless guy that always stands outside of the restaurant her and her Mammie go to. Aww.

If you don't have a printer, or don't want to use all of your ink, you can surf websites and then just write everything on the lapbooks. That is usually what we do. Making 3 lapbooks at a time while printing would use lots of ink. Sometimes you need to print things, but for the most part writing is fine. Especially for the younger kids. :) I write everything and they trace it, and then we cover it with tape so it lasts longer.

This is a great website for printables. Word endings, a money chart, and more.

Spring themed pages can be found here, and tons of mini office/lapbooking resources can be found here and here.

My favorite website for homeschooling resources is Enchanted Learning. They don't really cover lapbooks specifically, but if you are doing a lapbook on an animal or a certain concept (K-3), chances are they have it.

Chinese Lapbook (LOTTTTTS OF PICTURES!)

Our Chinese Lapbooks are done! Well, with the exception of Jenelle's. Hers is a little more detailed, and will take more time because she has homework of her own from school to complete when she gets home. She will post her finished lapbook on her BLOG.

Excited to get started on the lapbooks



Reading "The Pet Dragon" (their favorite out of all the books)



Working hard






RESOURCES

Books:

Magic Trixie and the Dragon: Jill Thompson

Chinese New Year Crafts: Karen E. Bledsoe

Chinese Myths: Rob Shone

Chinese Mythology: Irene Dea Collier

How to Have Fun with Letters: Stewart Cowley

The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient China: Leonard Fisher

World Book, Chinese Myths & Legends: Philip Ardagh

Hippocrene Children's Illustrated Chinese (Mandarin) Dictionary

The Dragon Lover: Yong-Shen Xuan

The Pet Dragon: Christoph Niemann

The Sons of the Dragon King, a Chinese Legend: Ed Young

Links:

Lapbook Planner PDF

Lots of great Lapbooking folds

enchantedlearning.com -- It's worth the $20/year membership for us, but there are free printables as well.

Coloring pages, Chinese New Year, etc

China Theme Unit @ ABC Teach

Chinese Zodiac Printable

GREAT resource for any COUNTRY lapbook

Chinese Lantern Printable Coloring Page

Printable "Write the # in Chinese" page

Great Wall of China Fan Fold Printable

Printable Chinese Animals PDF

Make a Chinese Book

Great Wall Printables - Book #30, printable 8 page book as well as 3 worksheets and a Fact Sheet. Must be a member but it's free to sign up.

These two are also great lapbook resources, though I didn't find anything on China.

I also printed this for them:

女孩 -- girl

男孩 -- boy

母 -- mother

女兒 -- daughter

友 -- friend

Jane corrected us on our Chinese. :)

Mother is 母亲
Daughter is 女儿 (What you got was the traditional Chinese style and I'm assuming your girls wanna learn the simplified style becos it's easier and used by majority of Chinese)
Friend is 朋友

Finished product (I tried to hide their nakedness! They lasted about 15 minutes before they took their clothes off, they're total nudists.. ugh)





















Edit: We printed the money from HERE, there is also a little video that shows you how to count to 10 on one hand. It was fun to try!