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Presidents Lapbook

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I designed this lapbook for Munchkin to be filled in throughout the year. We’ll be learning about each President. All the templates are now available for download at homeschool share. Once again, I designed the cover in my PrintMaster program. The book is a little thicker, so it doesn’t close completely. She’ll be learning about the requirements to become US President and Presidential responsibility. She’ll also be writing about states where the Presidents live and why we have a President (and not a king). She will be recording which Presidents are on the different coins and bills. In addition, we’ll…

Parables of Jesus Lapbook

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Currently, we’re studying some of the parables of Jesus. We’re focusing on parables about growth and parables about stewardship. I wanted to come up with a way to review all of the parables that we’ve studied throughout the unit. I thought since Munchkin enjoys the lapbooks so much that I would make up a simple lapbook for her. I assembled it, and she’ll fill it out at the end of the unit. You can download the lapbook here: Parables Lapbook. The images are slightly different from the pictured due to use restrictions. The lapbook is for personal or classroom use…

Olympics Lapbook

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We put together this lapbook before the Olympics started, and we’ll continue to work on it during the Olympics. We designed this cover with the PrintMaster program. The images are courtesy of the Official Olympics website. The images for the Olympic mascots were found on the Olympic website. They also had information on what each mascot symbolized. When you put their names together — Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni — they say “Welcome to Beijing.” On the back of the lapbook, we pasted some images of famous places in China as well as descriptions about these areas. We also found…

Our Week at a Glance

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Munchkin decided at the last minute that she’d go to Vacation Bible School (VBS) this week (as in 10-15 minutes before we needed to leave the house). The church is doing Son Harvest. She really enjoyed that today, and she’s looking forward to the rest of the week. They’re having a coloring contest, so she worked on coloring that this evening. This week in school, we’ll be studying Jesus’ parables. We’re using free handouts from Calvary’s Chapel to supplement our Bible readings. We’ll be starting a new unit and lapbook about plants. Munchkin will continue with her normal math studies.…

Book Sale Finds

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Today, Munchkin and I headed over to our local library’s monthly book sale. We’ve never gone before, and boy, were we missing out!!! We walked over to the checkout with this HUGE stack of books. We walked away only spending $14. Wow! One very nice book is missing from the picture as I’m going to be using it as a gift for someone. All of the books are in excellent condition. Plus, we picked up several outdoor magazines for free (not pictured) that we’ll be using for their pictures. Needless to say, I do believe that we’ll be heading back…