Our Very First Lapbook!

We recently completed our very first lapbook!

First thing I learned: My daughter cares a little less for glue than I'd thought!  ;-)  As it turns out, she evidently has an aversion to sticky, like her Mama.

All the stuff I'd read about lapbooking urged beginners to start with something easy. Honestly, I would normally nix that idea. See, I'm a 'jump-in-with-both-feet' kinda gal. "I got it covered, thanks! This is easy peasy!"

... Until I started my first food garden this past spring, that is. Everything I'd read about THAT had told me to start small, with just a few varieties. Which I thought was completely ludicrous, and so I planted about a bazillion types of a bazillion things.

Ask me how my garden grew... ... ... .

So THAT little lesson taught me that, perhaps, it would be a good idea to 'start easy' with this, too. And so we did. :-)

Since we have a full curriculum already, I don't *have* to incorporate every subject under the sun... or any subject, especially, (aside from the science that the study was derived from, of course). So it was easy on the 3 R's, and focused just a little on nature (in the lapbook, itself).

We are BLESSED to own most of a WONDERFUL series of children's science books. The series is called "Let's Read and Find Out". One day soon I will have to blog a bit about the series for you, in case you're interested. But for now, I will just mention that each book is on a specific subject; clouds, the Big Dipper, or a specific animal, for instance.

I allowed My Precious to choose the first book she wanted to lapbook on, and she chose "How Animal Babies Stay Safe." Of course she did! What little girl doesn't love animals AND babies? Because our not-spayed-in-time cat had her kittens recently, it was a fitting subject as well. So, because animal babies are just so stinkin' cute, our lapbook was easy on the info, and heavy in the graphics department.

I must say we were both delighted (once we got past the paste issue) in the work involved, as well the finished product. Well... ok. Fact is, we are both so stinkin' proud of how our first lapbook turned out, that we could hardly stand it, and couldn't get enough of looking through it, again and again. (Which, is part of the point behind lapbooking - creating a 'book' that your child returns to again and again.)

Without further ado... Our very first lapbook :-)