12 April 2011

P’s First Lapbook

I’m so excited! Ever since I discovered lapbooking, I just couldn’t wait to try one with my P. So when the opportunity presented itself to go the Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, I thought, “Hey, let’s do a dinosaur lapbook to get ready for our visit!”

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This was a pretty simple lapbook. (I figured we should start simply until we get the hang of it.) But the process was pretty fun. I let P choose which dinosaurs to do, with the only guidance that we would look at 3 herbivores and 3 carnivores. We used the website Enchanted Learning Dinosaurs. They have more dinosaurs than I’ve ever heard of, which gave us plenty to choose from. I printed out a small coloring page of each dinosaur he chose, and we read about them on the website. We did about 2 dinosaurs a day until we had all six in his book. We sorted them into 2 small booklets, herbivores and carnivores.

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(He got so into it, that he even started matching up some of his toy dinosaurs to the ones we were studying.) P decorated the cover with dinosaur stickers, and then it was time for the museum! While we were at the museum, we took lots of pictures of P next to the dinosaurs. He loved it! Then we printed some pics at home and included our favorites into the lapbook.

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Anyway, I think the result was pretty cool, and I just loved hearing P pronounce all the dinosaur names (which he did amazingly well!).

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