Tag: Lapbooks

On Friday, we completed our month long study of Ancient Egypt. We could have easily spent more time with this unit as there are so many great activities available for Ancient Egypt studies. We enjoyed doing a self-made lapbook to go along with our study. We also did a few notebooking pages and worksheets with this unit. Munchkin enjoyed studying hieroglyphics. We chose the pyramids and sphinx as the cover image as it is one of the classic images of Egypt. Munchkin also says that it reminded her of how hard life must of been for the Israelites under Egyptian…

We did a short unit on pumpkins in preparation for next week’s field trip to the pumpkin patch. We based this lapbook on the books The Pumpkin Patch Parable, From Seed to Pumpkin, and The Pumpkin Book. We made booklets for the Pumpkin Prayer, Pumpkins and Jesus, and The Inspiring Pumpkin that we found here. We did some pumpkin vocabulary. We made a booklet that covered the process of growing a pumpkin. We put all of the verses from The Pumpkin Patch Parable into a pocket. We found the Label the Parts of a Pumpkin, Pumpkin Patch Fractions, Pumpkin Patch…

Today, in preparation for our field trip to see the bee keeper tomorrow, we did a mini unit on bees. We used the Bee lapbook from Hands of a Child. Scholastic also offers a free 4 lesson fun bee unit.

On Friday, Munchkin completed the earthquake unit. We used the earthquake lapbook from Hands of a Child. She enjoyed learning about the different aspects of earthquakes. We were able to watch a few shows on Discovery/National Geographic Channel to go along with this unit. National Geographic’s website has some great interactive features on earthquakes (as well as tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes) including being able to set off an earthquake.