lap books

so my new favorite preschool tool is doing lap-books with w. my dear friend and homeschool hero angela introduced me to these and i love them. in my short experience with homeschooling i have realized that my favorite"style" (at least for now) is the unit study approach. we pick a book or an animal and do lots of different things with it. i am not big on having piles of clutter around the house and kev starts to get a bit annoyed when there are more than 12 pictures stuck on the door with magnets and at least 3 of them fall off whenever someone opens the door, so i have found that the lapbook idea is brilliant. i can leave the latest lapbook out for a bit and then file it away and not feel guilty about tossing it. here is our latest:

this is the cover (like w's bees?!)

we talked about the "yukon gold rush" (part of the story) and found gold things in old magazines, learned where michigan is (where the story takes place) and learned several new words (even i learned what "chortled" means:)

 we put our Bible verse and a wheel with the bee's life-cycle on the back

so simple and w loved it. there is an awesome website with lots of great ideas and much better examples at: homeschoolshare.com....if you're interested:)