Lapbooks!

I think I've been resisting lapbooks. I guess I didn't really get why these are so popular. It looked like more busy work when I needed to get some samples into our ES' hands.

Our first lapbook was a complete success. Rachel wanted to use a black marker, so it's not "pretty", but the activity was right up her alley. I followed Alicia's example. I have a little patriotism workbook and I took the first subject: the US flag. I went to the internet and found a free lapbook template and lots of info. I couldn't find a manilla folder, so I used one of Rachel's large drawing sheets and folded that. It worked out beautifully and I think looks better than the folder. We cut and glued the various parts on there, while I imparted some facts about our flag. We didn't do every activity and it's not officially done, but now we have something to show our ES. :-)