Lyric's First Lapbook

The girls and I made our first lapbooks. Basically you make mini-books covering details that you've studied. After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in a large folder. The finished product is called a lapbook because it's large and covers your lap.

I decided we were going to do our lapbooks on the colors and numbers. Lyric did hers in Spanish and Story's is in English. We haven't quite finished Story's, but here are pictures of Lyric's. We had a lot of fun doing this and I am sure we are going to be spending lots of time lapbooking in our future homeschooling days!

This is the front cover. It is on a plain folder because they didn't have colored folders when I bought these at Target. I think a colored folder would look better, but I was anxious to get a folder, so we had to go with the plain one this time.

This is the inside. On the left and right flaps are flip books that have the numbers 1-20 in Spanish. Lyric put stickers on each page to correspond to the number. Both girls really enjoyed this! We bought Story Dora stickers and Lyric princess stickers, so that made it all the more exciting!

In the middle is a counting book printed from Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html. I love that site! She also made a circle book for azul (blue). We picked blue pictures from the Internet (blueberry, a blue unicorn, blue sky and a blue fish) and Lyric cut them out and glued them on.

On the bottom right, is the color matching game we made. Lyric typed up the color names and decided what shade of the color she wanted to use. Story made cards just like these for her book. She also did the typing and picked the colors out she wanted to use...Yes, I am a very patient woman :)

When you raise the middle flap Lyric glued balloons here. You raise the balloon to reveal the color name in Spanish. She also typed all of the names herself and chose the shade of color she wanted. As I said before, I am a very patient woman.

On the top of the flap, Lyric practiced writing her numbers. She is a smart kiddo, but her handwriting is not the best. I think she takes after her mother. I am almost 34 and still write like a fifth grader.

On the back cover she colored a rainbow and practiced writing the color names. She made a circle book for rojo (red). Inside of it, she glued strawberries, a red ball, a heart, and a red arrow. In the pouch there is another matching game we made. You have to match the correct number of balloons to the number.

I have been a little addicted to lapbooking lately. Anytime I am on the Internet, it seems like I am looking at lapbooking websites, lapbooking pictures, or different lapbooks to try. I joined a lapbooking yahoo group (I know I'm a dork!) I always seem to need an addiction in my life. The last thing was cake decorating now it is lapbooking. This is much cheaper, better for my diet, and my girls will benefit from this addiction!

We have decided our next lapbook is going to be on If You Give a Moose a Muffin. Homeschool Share http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ has a free lapbook on their site that looks pretty fun. Lyric really likes this book, so it should be fun. I've been trying to decide if I want to do the same book with Story or try something else. She loves to be involved! She is so cute when she says, "I have to do my homeschool." The number and color lapbook worked our great because of it being the same, but different languages. I just don't know how much she would get out of doing a lapbook on If You Give a Moose a Muffin? We will probably start next week, so I have a few days to decide.

If you want to learn more about lapbooking check out these sites:

* The Simplest Lapbook Ever http://simplest.lapbook.ever.com/?skip_login=1

* Lapbooking on Squidoo http://www.squidoo.com/lapbooking

* Lapbooking Ringsurf http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/jimmie/

I have many more if you need them, like I said it has been a little bit of an addition for me lately!