Buried in Lapbooks!
Mar 25th, 2008 by Alicia
Well, the lapbook thing has taken over around here. Victoria is still working on her Amelia Earhart book and gardening book, but we’re all working on one about the Freedom Quilt debate and she’s doing much of the work on that one. She’s writing up a pro and con section for it right now.
Anna asked to do a lapbook on fashion so that’s what her first one is about. I found some lesson plans, terminology, a paper dress form and so on.
She made a little booklet that said “prairie dresses” and “modern outfit” where she cut a picture of herself and another little girl dressed in their Little House costumes from a brochure that she was on the cover of (from playing Grace Ingalls in a local production). On the other side she has a woman she cut out of a magazine to show the modern outfit. She also cut a dress out of fancy fabric and glued it on, along with ribbon and stickers. Next up she’s going to write a fashion article about the latest trends.
Jack asked to do a lapbook on the body so that’s what his is. His is so cute! He’s got a body printout that he colored and labeled, a little flap with a little sticker boy and some words that have to do with the body, a little book with pictures of ways to keep your body healthy that goes into a little pocket, plus more.
We all talked about the lungs, oxygen, carbon dioxide, plants, blood, the brain and more. Then we got to the nerves and I explained the messages went up the nerves like a highway to the brain. I made up a game to explain about the nerves and synapses. I had us all hold hands and stretch out, with the person on one end being the body part feeling something and the brain at the other end. The end person would whisper something like “cold foot!” to the next person and we’d pass it up the line till the brain would shout it out. We all took turns playing parts and the kids loved it.
That segued into a discussion of phantom limb pains and more…
Anyway, the kids are really getting a lot out of these– not just their own but each other’s too. I’ll post pics when they’re all done.
