Little House on the Prairie is the third lapbook in the free Little House on the Prairie Lapbook series based on the Little House books. These were designed to be used as a book review or as part of a Little House unit study. It has a complete study guide with lapbook components.
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Plant Lapbook
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Today, we wrapped up our study of plants. This was not Munchkin’s favorite unit, but we got through it. I guess you can’t love everything. lol! We used the lapbook from Hands of a Child for this unit. Once again, we used the printmaster program to design the cover. We wanted to incorporate the 4 things that plants need (water, air, soil, and sun) in the cover. Munchkin wants me to mention that she’s not finished coloring these last few pages. She’s coloring as she’s watching the Olympics.
Little House in the Big Woods is the first lapbook in the free Little House on the Prairie Lapbook series based upon the Little House books. These were designed to be used as a book review or as part of a Little House unit study. It has a complete study guide with lapbook components.
Why Lapbooks?
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Why so many lapbooks lately? That’s a 2-part answer. 1) Munchkin has really fallen in love with using lapbooks as a means of learning. 2) I have more time to create the lapbooks now as we’re watching the Olympics. I don’t like just sitting and watching tv, but I really like watching the Olympics (as does Munchkin). How do we use the lapbooks? Usually, we use lapbooks as the core for a certain part of our curriculum (often science or history). We fill out the lapbooks as we go through the unit. I precut the booklets as Munchkin does not…
Our United States Lapbook
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Munchkin wants to do a study of the states while we are doing the study of the Presidents. The plan is to study one state and one President per week. We discussed what she wanted to learn about the different states and made this lapbook. For more information about this lapbook and to download the templates, you can go to the completed United States Lapbook post. We couldn’t find an image that we liked for the front cover, so we combined several images (in Printmaster) to create this cover. We will be learning about each state individually. Each state booklet…