New books are coming!

This weekend I sat and went through the current lapbooks to try and figure out what needs to be done to get them finished up this week and I started coming up with ideas for the next set of books.

For Bubby I decided to do an Apple book. He likes apples, and with it being fall I thought this would make a good little book for a 3 year old. So far he loves the B book I’ve been putting together for him, this is turning out to be a really good tool to add to his learning. Normally his mom has trouble getting him to sit and focus, but he loves to go through his B lapbook and find all the b words. He especially loves it since I put his picture on it, after all his name begins with B too.

My oldest daughter, “Pumpkin” as she likes to be called, has plans for 2 books coming up. We will finish her Wizard of Oz book this week and then we will take a week or so off to get ready for her huge birthday party and I have to get their Halloween costumes made. The last week of October we’ll do her Elections lapbook. I’ve been very disappointed at what I’ve found for lapbooks for her age, so I’ll be putting together my own templates and ideas. I’ve found some really cute books that I’ve requested from the library. Really, my goal is just to introduce her to what the elections are about and teach her some key vocabulary terms. I’ll incorporate some simple math, reading, writing, history, and civics. I also talked to her kindergarten teacher on Friday and on election day I’m going to send her to school with some ballots, a ballot box, and “I voted today” stickers. On the ballots will be pictures of 3 types of snacks (to be determined later). The kids will be asked to circle their favorite and then put their ballot in the ballot box. They will get an “I voted today” sticker. Makayla will bring the ballots home, sort, count, and graph the results. The next day she will take the results with the winning snack to school. Her teacher really liked the idea, and I’m glad she’s willing to let us do this, I think it’s the most important part of her lapbook. On a side note, I made the “I voted today” stickers last night. They turned out so cute. I used the cover picture of Clifford from the book “Clifford for President” to make the stickers. The kids will love them.

The next book Pumpkin will be working on will be a Thanksgiving book. She and her sister (“Princess Booboo…don’t ask), will be working on the same book for Thanksgiving. It will just be easier on me that way, and since they are only a year apart they can use most of the same materials.

For Jae, we are going to do a Dora the Explorer book. Once again, I’m having problems finding good templates and examples so it looks like I’ll be doing a lot of the innovative work myself for this one. I’m really surprised though, I would have thought a lot of people would be using her for books, there are so many things Dora explores, it seems like the perfect lapbook to me.

So, check back later, it looks like I’ll have some new templates for sharing. I’ll also be posting the finished products of the books they are currently working on.