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About Me:: I am a scrapbooker at heart, so when I learned about lapbooks in March I was excited! I am a mother of 2 girls, ages 7 and 4. I will be homeschooling my oldest daughter this Fall for second grade. My youngest will be attending the public school for Pre-K. My oldest will get some special one-on-one attention with mom, and my youngest will get to make some new friends and devlop her social skills.

I am a nurse, who will now only be working per diem, so I can concentrate on homeschooling. YEAH!! And have a normal sleep schedule.

Favorite Website: www.dltk.com; www.homeschoolshare.com; the sister site: www.littleblots.com

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Ok....The Insects Lapbook is up in the video section. Again, my camera only allowed 54 seconds of video time, so I go through it rather quickly, sorry.

We used Enchanted Learning a lot with this one, plus the links that Valerie supplied on this site. (Thanks Valerie!) The links we used included:

Honey Bee Mini Book and Study

Coming next..........Planets and Spac… Continue

Posted on September 3, 2008 at 1:39pm —

Finally....Plants and Seeds Lapbook

Well, I am not liking my new camera....it only holds 57 seconds of movie action. So, the video of the Plants and Seeds Lapbook is very quick; sorry. But the video is up in the video section on this site.

We completed this the second half of June, and the first couple weeks of July. And some of the drawings of our bean plants even went in to August....some of our bean plants didn't make it- but then suddenly sprouted a month later....LOL.

So here are the links that we used.

www.kinderplans.com… Continue

Posted on September 3, 2008 at 11:00am —

Closet Give-Away!

I have a Bob Jones Spelling 2 Teacher Edition available. I decided to use another curriculum. Send me a comment if you are interested, and I will draw a name at the end of the contest.

Posted on September 1, 2008 at 11:20am — 1 Comment

All play and no work.....after awhile of all work and no play

Our official day of homeschooling will be on Monday, September 15. I would like t start sooner, but circumstances just don't allow us too. We have been busy over the summer. We finished our Plants and Seeds Lapbook, completed our Insects Lapbook, started our new Animal Lapbook (this will be ongoing as we learn about a new animal each week), and started our Space Lapbook. All while doing our English lessons. It was a good and productive summer.

And, I will no longer be working full time. I will… Continue

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 7:45pm — 1 Comment

Starting Slow

Well, after a lot of time and effort, my IHP and letter of intent to homeschool are IN and ACCEPTED! That had been occupying most of my time, along with working. And, because anything we started before June 17 (AG's last day of first grade) wouldn't count for next year, lapbooking went on hold. So, with my school year starting June 23- we have started up again. We will only have school 2 days a week for the summer. One day will be science- taking adavantage of the insects, stars, planets, plants… Continue

Posted on June 30, 2008 at 12:37pm — 3 Comments

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At 6:29pm on February 2, 2009, Julie said…: Great lapbooks! Do you make them or do you have your child help with the work? I am trying to decide if I will make them or just get the templates ready and let the kids cut and paste. Thanks for the ideas!

At 6:46pm on January 27, 2009, Holly said…: Melissa, I was wondering if you had links for the stuff for the God made me special book...also I was wondering if you could explain how you made the super big lapbook...I saw in one of your videos that you folded 3 folders the normal lapbook way...and a forth not folded...but then how do you attach them? I would really appreciate the help! Thanks!
Holly

At 8:03pm on January 11, 2009, Valerie said…: Happy Birthday :)

At 6:46pm on January 11, 2009, Pamela said…: Happy Birthday Melissa! Hope you had a good one!

At 9:20pm on August 29, 2008, Vania said…: Thank you so much for letting me know how to put it together! :) It did help! Blessings, Vania

At 10:52am on July 29, 2008, Donna said…: Could I pretty please have the beginner's guide as to how at attach the file folders to open that way? I'm sure it is really simple, but I just don't get it. Is there a video on the basics?

At 6:56pm on June 11, 2008, Karri031 said…: I love your "God made me special" lapbook! That would be fun to do during Summer break! Thanks for sharing!

At 2:55pm on May 29, 2008, Sheila said…: Hi Melissa! You did such a wonderful --fabulous job on your Very Hungry Caterpillar lapbook that I decided to make one too. Thank you so much!! You were a inspiration to me!!
Come visit my video when you can--

At 4:08am on May 29, 2008, vicki peace said…: Melissa,
Did you create the templates for your addition and subtraction books? I am interested in making something like that for my kids to review their math facts this summer. I will have two going into 2nd grade. My daugh. going into fifth is struggling with remembering her basic math facts which is slowing her down a LOT!!! What state are you in? Do you still have questions regarding hs for your state? If you live in Michigan or Ohio I can help you there. We've hs for 11 years now. I'm excited for you and the adventure that is soon to begin. Without the Christian school bill, will you be able to cut back to part=time work? Well, anyways, thanks for taking time to post your video! I LOVED IT!

At 12:17pm on May 27, 2008, Sonja A. said…: Hi; just wanted to say thank you sooo much for sharing your videos. I was wanting to do the Addition and Subtraction lapbook to help my daughter out, but was quite confused about where everything went and how it was supposed to look. Thanks again! We're working on them over the next few weeks.

Sonja

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