Winter 2008/2009 Newsletter
Members will now receive the LapPass code emailed directly to them upon sign up. If you need your code to be resent, please request access in our LapPass group. We do have helpful information for how to use your LapPass code, and trobleshooting tips in our Forum Area as well.
New Privacy Settings!
You now have the ability to set your profile page to private! If you'd only like to share it with friends, or members of our site you now have the option to do so. You can also set it so just your photos, or blog posts are kept private, whatever settings you're most comfortable with you are in control! Click here to read more about changing your profile settings.....
Moderator Welcome: Rebekah
That's right, Rebekah has joined the Moderator ranks and is going to be helping to keep our member forums a great place for you to spend your time! You may have already had a chance to chat with Rebekah in our LapChats or here on our Forums, but some of you may not be introduced quite yet, so here is a little bit about Rebekah:"God has called me to homeschool my 3 beautiful children. My oldest has PDD, an Autism Spectrum Disorder, he is 6. My other son, who is 5, has ADHD. I also have a daughter who is almost 3 and eager to "do school" as well. I am an artist who enjoys anything creative from lapbooking to watercolors! I hope to pass my love of art to my children with this very creative form of homeschooling!"
Rebekah is interested in connecting with other members who are using lapbooking with Autistic and special needs children. So be sure and stop by her page and thank her for all her efforts, and let her know her help is much appreciated!
That's right,
we've got our "Help Wanted" sign out for those of you who are
interested in lending a helping hand here in our member forums!
This past month we've added our 10,000th member! With the quick
growth of this community, we need you're help to maintain a helpful
and resourceful website! If you're interested in becoming a
moderator or even host a Chat, please drop me a comment below
letting me know that your interested! We're estatic to have so many
people interested in lapbooking, and everyone has been so wonderful
in helping out, that we look forward to continuing to build this
website into something that can be useful for many different
homeschooling families!
Winter 2008/09 Featured Member:
This months' featured member is Pamela! Since Pamela has joined Lapbook Lessons she has been our Lady-of-Links, always posting the wonderful links to free web resources just in time for our seasonal lapbooks! Lately Pamela has been keeping us in awe of her amazing ability to find and share these lapbooking links by creating her own resource pages on our new LapWiki application. If you haven't seen these yet, your in for a big surprise.....especially if you want to lapbook about animals...the current topic she is working on! (btw, my personal favorite is her Animals & the Bible page)
Pamela also has a personal blog called Joyful Songs, where she shares lapbooking ideas, and printables she makes for notebooking with her children, so be sure and visit her there as well! As a featured member, Pamela will receive a $15 Gift Card to CurrClick where she can pick out some more fantastic homeschooling resources!
Little LapLinks 2009 Topic #1: The Four Seasons
Advanced Lapbook Learners 2009 Topic #1: Photography
New Lapbooks
We've got two new lapbooks up on the site for you, one for your little Prince, and one for your little Princess! These two lapbooks will help your children make some wonderful keepsakes for a new sibling on the way. Why the sudden interest in New Baby Lapbooks you ask? Wanna find out.........?
Anyway, check out the new lapbook on our site, remember you need your LapPass code to print the files (see the beginning of this newsletter for more details)
New Website: Totally Tots
Well, now Carrisa has really outdone herself, starting up a fantistic new website all about TOTS. The website is called Totally Tots, and I cannot even begin to explain how fantastic this site already is....you've really got to see this for yourself.........and SUBSCRIBE to their RSS feed, that way you can keep up to date with all the amazing posts and resources for your little guys! And if you've got a second, drop by Carisa's page and leave her an encouraging comment, she's sure to be up to her eyeballs in work, and I know she's following the Lord with this new endeavor, so lets thank her for all the time and energy she's putting into this new resource for our children!
January Contest: Organizing
Lapbooks
and the winner is.......
MacLibrarian!MacLibrarian's post was drawn at random, and she will receive a $15 Gift Card to www.CurrClick.com! And here was what she had to say about organizing lapbooks:
* Storing Lapbooks - I do not have a ton of Lapbooks, but those I do have, along with little homemade picture books are stored in a box that is like a magazine file that I covered with a gift bag. * Current Projects - I love those clear plastic fileholders that zip or close with string. I put 'research' papers and templates that can be punched in a binder and then finished work or items that are ready for kids to do their work go in a three hole punched clear case. * Supplies - paper in a a file drawer, sorted by thickness (cardstock/paper) and color, other items in their respective homes. I want to start a binder with samples of the different types of lapbook inserts that I have used and like so I can show it to others who are just learning about lapbooking.
We had over 50 responses to our January contest on organizing lapbooks! I was so thrilled to read through all the different ideas for storing lapbooks, and maintaining organization for our Lapbooks in progress. Everyone contributed some wonderful ideas, and it was extra fun to look at all the photos ya'll shared! Here are some of the ideas that were shared.....
Completed lapbooks go with books in my schoolroom who's topic they share. (Little House in the Praire lapbook would go with Little House in the Praire books. American Girl lapbook with AG books.) I would like my kids to see their lapbooks as something they can add to if they read the books again or find additional information. shared by Teresa
"I store my sons completed lapbooks in a show off box ( it is a sterilite or rumbermaid container that is clear and has a colored lid with a handle that holds file folders.) about 5 dollars at Walmart. Not yet but we plan on decorating it with stickers to individulaize it for him. He knows this is his box and it i is down where he can reach it at anytime." shared by motherofonesm
Click Here to read more Lapbook Organizing Ideas here.........
1. How do you incorporate their artwork into the lapbook (i.e. store in a pocket, use as a cover page...something else?)
2. Or if you've done an Art specific lapbook, or made an Art portfolio lapbook, tell us all about it!
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Japan Lapbook
Here is a Japan lapbook that we put together this month!
Everything is linked up on this page:
http://www.lapbooklessons.com/JapanLapbook.html
If you need direct links, I've separated them for you below:…
Oregon Trail Lapbook
You can see photos and download the files from this page in our site:…
Gardening Lapbook
This is a free Garden Lapbook that would be perfect for keeping track of all your garden activities. There are journaling pages, tables, graphs, and lots of minibooks to record detailed information on the different flowers and vegetables you're children plant this
New Baby Lapbook: Big Brother, Big Sister
I've just put up two new Prince and Princess mission lapbooks for your little ones. These are perfect for when you are expecting a new baby, and y…
Kit Kittredge Lapbook
This is a Kit Kittredge Lapbook based on the Movie that was just released this Fall 2008. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl was based on the American Girl books by Valerie Trip, but I'm not sure how "related" the movie is to the books because we haven't read them yet. The movie was super cute, so we just had to make a lapbook f…
Bible Verse Pockets
I'm working on updating and adding to our Lapbook Template section. These are some fun Bible Verse Pockets you can use for storing children's verse cards with. Just glue the sides and the bottom and keep the memory verse inside
Bible Lapbook Updates
I've just revamped the "Bible Lapbook" page so that you'll be able to see small thumbnails of the minibooks before you print them. I've also added a Bible Lapbook Title Page and a Bible Names minibook.
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