We Did It!

I'm excited to tell you that on Thursday we completed the first folder of our lapbook! The kids have been working hard. We all have been learning a lot. The kids are proud to answer Daddy's questions & share their new knowledge.

First we learned about shamrocks & their importance to Ireland.


We discussed The Great Potato Famine and how devastating it was to so many. It lasted for many years.

Princess was such a good girl. When she got bored we had her join us at the table & gave her a little snack.

The kids worked in 2 teams. Sweet Pea & Elvis were one team. It was not only time for them to review what we had discussed as a group but a time for them to practice cooperation & teamwork.

Stapling a mini book together.

Boo Bear & Bugsy were a team. Boo is very good with Bugs. So patient. He in turn adores her.
Here they are gluing pieces on their folder.

Finished!

All their hard work has paid off & they have an amazing first folder to show off! As you can see Bugs was in a goofy mood. =) This folder displays information on Ireland's geography, the national instrument - the harp, the flag, the tradition of the shamrock, The Great Potato Famine, The Celtics & St. Patrick.

Sweet Pea & Elvis proudly display their finished work.

What a wealth of information we have learned & we are only 1/3 of the way through!

More Lapbook Learning

For the most part our group learning this week was a wash. Don't be alarmed. The kids DID work on schoolwork. But it was independent work or one-on-one work. Monday was accomplished a lot. Tuesday the kids had a tough time settling down & getting anything done including chores. Wednesday was the day we lost our sweet Romeo & Thursday we all needed a day to grieve. Friday Boo went to her friend's house for a slumber party to celebrate her friends' birthday. While she was gone I decided we needed to work on something so I chose our lapbook. Bugs wasn't interested so it was Elvis, Sweet Pea & I.

Sweet Pea got out the encyclopedia to look up the flag of Ireland.


In our lesson we learned what each color stood for & why they are placed in a specific order.

Elvis practices his cutting skills by cutting out a picture of St. Patrick. We learned who he was & why he is so famous. I never knew about the symbolism he started. Very interesting!

Bugs wanted to work with his Leapfrog so I let him. He was having a ball tracing letters & identifying them.

Princess climbing my legs. Lol!

Sweet Pea & Elvis spent the rest of the time answering questions about St. Patrick, coloring a second flag & learning about the national musical instrument, the harp.

New Lapbook & Bugsy's Lapbook

Yesterday we started working on this lapbook from A Journey Through Learning. I'm adjusting it a little so we can use it from K to 8th. Not hard to do at all! The kids loved the first day and we left with them asking for more!

Here is the Table of Contents to show you what we will be learning about. If you want to see a few more sample pages go to their website and feel free to browse.

Bugs finishes up his phonics before we start the lapbook.

On to Ireland! =0)

First we found Ireland on a map. It took them awhile since it is so small.

We talked about Ireland's geography, it's capital, provinces & counties. Then it was to the table to record the information we had learned. They wrote down their info., cut & glued.

More to come as we work along!

Here are pics of a lapbook Bugsy made in co-op. He is very proud of it!

Each category had different animals. His teacher told me they had classified them together & Bugs knew every one & how to classify them!

The first flap.


This is the full view of the front of the lapbook.

The inside of the flap, "Mama's Pocketbook is..."

The inside of the flap, "Bible Verse".

He practiced tracing the letter 'L'.

And his colors.........

And numbers

3 green things
(These were behind the 1,2,3 flaps.)

Counting with different colored scoops of ice cream.

His preschool class is geared for kids his own age as well as younger children. Some of the skills here are things he has already mastered but that is okay. Review is never a bad thing and Bugs loved cutting, gluing & coloring. Cutting is definitely something he needs practice with. I'm so grateful to his teachers. The love they have for our preschoolers shines through & Bugs simply adores them.