Sprite and I really enjoy lapbooking. The creative and artsy component is a great supplement to our homeschool adventure. But I refuse to let lapbooking take over. Sometimes it tries. Let me share some mental temptations which alert me when I’m about to let lapbooking take over. We’ve got to make minibooks about these next […]
Artist Study — Monet
Our artist for this term is Monet. (We study art in a Charlotte Mason styled approach.) Although we haven’t completely finished this master, we worked on a “reproduction.” Actually it is a coloring sheet from a Dover publication. (I’m not sure which one.) I subscribe to the Dover samplers. And I download a lot of […]
Explorers Lapbook
Today was a fun day — we got to assemble a lapbook. It’s always rewarding for Sprite to see several weeks of work come together in a completed project. Click on the photo to go to the set at Flickr. We’ve been slowly making minibooks and maps for about five weeks as various explorers made […]
Lapbooking and Charlotte Mason
How does lapbooking fit into a Charlotte Mason homeschool? When Miss Mason was alive, there was no such thing as “lapbooking.” Surely she was aware of the clever art of origami paper folding. But I doubt that her students used “hamburger” and “hotdog” folds to record their dictation each day. So does that automatically mean […]
Orchestra Lapbook
We’re doing a quick overview of music history by studying one composer each week. We still have a few more composer mini-books to add. It’s not a Charlotte Mason composer study because it’s far too fast, but it’s a great introduction that this musically illiterate mom really needs for planning more in depth composer studies […]