We're just getting into "lap and note" (a combination of lapbook and notebook principles) and wondering who else uses this combination for unit studies? I've found a lot of resources for the younger children but not much (yet) for the older kids (grade 2-5 for example).
Would love to hear from others and see some resource listing!
We have always lapbooked and notebooked. My kids are now 12, 10 and 8 yro. We use them to help us organize information. My kids have used both for presentations (in scouts and in our homeschool Classical Conversations group.) Interests of our own, pets, 4-H projects, Declaration of Independence, to learn the 50 states, etc. We like these methods because, I keep them in a file box and we look at them, like a scrapbook or books to see what we've done. Most of the things geared towards younger kids, you can make more difficult by assigning the child to use the library and/or computer to look up more information and write about it, or draw their own pictures to add to it. I'm not sure what sites you've found but, there is a lot of free and for sale information out there. Here are some I've used http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ (all free - moms work) http://www.notebookingpages.com/ http://www.notebookingnook.com/ http://www.currclick.com/ (monthly freebie offered - Feb. explorers) http://www.handsofachild.com/ (semi annual freebie - ecosystems) For most of these, you need to set up an account but, it's free (like this site!) I hope this helps.
Yes, those are great resources - and ones that I'm currently using. I'll have to open up my "favorites" to find additional sites that I've saved.
I'm tossing around the idea of offering a lapbook/notebook GROUP learning session for a small group of homeschoolers. I'm contemplating ideas of how best to make it productive if we meet every 2 weeks.
Make assignments to complete outside of our meetings? Make assignments to complete AT our meetings (held in a library so resources are plentiful)? Assign a different subject (related to the topic) for each child to bring to the sessions? Leave the lapbook/notebook process "free form" and have the children explain what they learned/completed?
I was wondering if any studies have been done on children who use mostly computers most of the day for schooling? My children will be starting Switched-On-Schoolhouse next year for 3rd Grade and will probably have their own laptops so I was concerned about them.
We do lapbooks and notebooks and sometimes mix them up -- mostly by putting minibooks into notebooks. I just bought History of the Horse (Beautiful Feet) for my almost 10 YO, and she'll be doing Lap-n-Note for it, I think.
We are new to lapbooking. We combine some notebooking with it. I've recently started a new lapbooking Yahoo Group. I'm trying to compile a (nearly) complete alphabetical list of free lapbooks available online and hopefully lapbooks that are available for purchase. I welcome everyone interested in lapbooking. The address is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Love_to_Lapbook/ .