Today we immersed ourselves in Dolphins. Some times when I pick these units they go across so-so. Other times, like this one, everyone is really intersted from my 8th grader down to my pre-schooler. Not just kind of interested but woooh interested.
Going to work on her lapbook while listening to a book!Our unit study books and box of lapbooking pieces.
Makes my life so much easier!
Our unit study books and box of lapbooking pieces.
Today we watched several videos about dolphins. The kids raided the book shelves for any ocean book. We also got started on writing down information. We focused on a single type of dolphin.
The littles who don’t write or can’t write very much would tell me what to write, and I would write it for them. Then I would have them draw a picture of what we were talking about.
Name and Title
The kids put the titles and their names on the outside of the lapbooks today. Most of the work was dealing with writing down information on vocabulary cards, worksheets, or learning through the videos and books we watched.
Empty lapbook, for now
We don’t tend to glue our lapbooking pieces into the lapbook until they are all done, end of the week. That way we can see how they all fit into the lapbook. Today the folders are a blank slate.
I also wanted to point out that lapbooking is a form of notebooking. Notebooking is a much larger more intense form of journaling your child’s learning. Think of the nature journals of the Victorian era. The beautiful bird and flower catalogues.
Our Garden Journal
This year we are doing a Garden journal. This will be a full family project. We are going to do everything from a budget, to seed growth charts, to chore charts of watering. I am going to add pictures of the family participating. I hope that in the years to come this will be a family treasure as well as a learning experience for us all.
Just found your site (I am thrilled so far!). Are you going to post more information about your garden journal? I would love to do one with my kids and could use some ideas.