In my recent quest for more creative ideas to teach my children, I came across lapbooks and now am hooked with using them and creating with my children all sorts of different themed lapbooks. Over the summer, we realized that our children were not going to sit down and learn from a workbook! They were too bored with them and it didn't do too much to stimulate their brain. So, I decided to look into what other homeschooling parents used to teach their kids and this was one idea that caught my attention.
Our first lapbook was pretty general, it focused on alphabets, numbers, adding, subtracting, months of the year, vowels, etc..nothing too exciting. However, my children found it fun to go through each activity in the lapbook and decided they wanted to try to do some more based on things they wanted to learn about!
So far, we did another lapbook on bugs. The children all took turns taking pictures of their favourite bugs and we did some bug related activities such as bug counting, pretending they are their favourite bugs and acting like them. We also did an experiment to show why flies are able to stick to our ceilings and walk on our ceilings!
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