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Review: Journey Through Learning Lapbooks

August 28, 2017 By Annette1 2 Comments

The Greatest Inventors has been a delight to us to use over the past few weeks. We’ve laughed, we’ve talked, and we’ve discovered so much thanks to A Journey through Learning Lapbooks.  Let me tell you all about it!

Now I do need to tell you this… we haven’t gotten as far into this lapbook as we wanted to.  You know what happened?  First we had vacation, then I got a NASTY migraine that wiped me out for a week, so we’ve only worked through the first six or seven inventors.
But it’s been such a delightful process of discovery… we are looking forward to finishing this lapbook up!  

A Journey through Learning Lapbooks is owned by Paula and Nancy.  They started their company with a desire to provide fun and educational studies for homeschooled students to engage with. They know have a team of six individuals that they work with.  They provide good quality lapbooks to supplement various other programs as well.

The Greatest Inventors lapbook dives us into the worlds of 18 different inventors. An Inventor is someone who thinks of new ways to solves problems. As my son commented “Like when Ant-man learned that ants will live in plastic ant homes that he made!”  

 You get a biography for each inventor that touches on the highlights of their life and their notable Invention(s).  Each inventor has a lapbook element to put together.  Some include writing in point form, others longer sections, I found each element was unique to that inventor.   

How we used it.

I printed off the book.  It’s not too bad.  I chose to print off the biography pages though I could have chosen to just read them off the computer, but that just gets complicated sometimes (as I don’t like putting PDF’s on the tablet).  🙂  The lad and I took turns reading the pages and deciding what was important to pull out.  

Occasionally we’d find an invention we didn’t know about.  Like.. swimming fins!  So we would stop and look them and up learn more about them.

One of the inventors I most connected with was John Deere.   Growing up in a farming community I could talk to my lad about the importance of not having clay stick to your digging implements.  This made sense to my lad and he immediately connected that with how hard it is to dig in our clay soil when the clay sticks to our shovels.   It was great to reread our John Deere book. And to reminisce  with my lad about how he used to love the Johnny Deere books and to make our John Deere slide puzzles.    It was great!  🙂

I am looking forward to learning about : Guglielmo Marconi, Louis Braille, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Thomas Jefferson, George Stevenson, Thomas Edison, Jonas Salk, George Washington Carver, and Alexander Graham Bell among others.

Generally speaking the reading level I’d put around grade 3/4.  But at the end of the book there are ways to expand your studies, with additional books you can read, biography pages and more.

I love the conversations generated between the lad and I.  It’s fun to learn about different people and the activities that shaped their inventions.  How different it was from how we live now.  Where we fly without even thinking about it, and how others risked their lives just to get up off the ground.  Flying a kit to learn about electricity, which again, we don’t even have to think about using, how easy it makes our lives… from heating hot water, to helping us get around at night, and letting us have computers. 

I also liked helping my lad learn to listen to an oral presentation and then learn how to take down notes from that presentation.  He’s got more to learn in this regard but he’s well on his way.  It’s an excellent skill to learn and not one that I anticipated doing this study.   We started him off just using the biographies provided, but then added listening to videos to increase his understanding. 

We liked this lapbook about the Greatest Inventors, and have a desire to keep learning about innovators from around the world. It’s rather fascinating what people can come up with isn’t it?

In case you think you need to make a lapbook with a lapbook study (and dislike the idea of figuring out how to fold your file folders .. despite AJTL’s excellent instructions), you could do what the lad and I do.  We make it into a scrapbook (in essence).  This means we can organize the lapbook elements in the way we want, add extra notebooking or biography pages easily, and put them into a three ring binder for easy storage.  it’s a method that works well for us.   We just paste the elements onto cardstock and we’re done. 🙂   It makes it work for eh?


Vendor:  A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks
Product: The Greatest Inventors Grades 2-8.  There is a study guide included, so this is a stand-alone product.
Received: PDF format ebook.
Price: PDF $8, also available in print for $18.
Reviewed for: The Homeschool Review Crew

Do check out their product list, you may find a fun and educational lapbook to do in your classroom.

 The Crew has been reviewing a number of products from A Journey Through Learning Lapbook,  not only The Greatest Inventors but also:
 Classical Conversations Cycle 3 JUNIOR Activity Book
 Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Activity Book
 An Overview of the 20th Century

Please click here or on the image below to read the reviews. 

http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/lapbooks-for-classical-conversations-apologia-inventors-20th-century-a-journey-through-learning-lapbooks-reviews/
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Carnations and more

April 23, 2011 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

Over the past two weeks we took some time to study Mother’s Day. This Mother’s day unit study was done by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett.. Here is day one/two and day three/four.

I have to admit…I was feeling somewhat reticent about studying Mother’s Day but chose to do so because I’m often surprised at what details are pulled out of studies that I never expected. This study, though not a favourite of either me or my son, was no different than studies I’ve undertaken in the past. To my surprise, I actually learned something, and at times was able to take an unappreciated study and turn elements of it into something my son appreciated. 🙂

For instance I learned why on Mother’s Day a carnation is given to each lady in our church. The carnation is actually the flower of Mother’s day. Bet YOU didn’t know that either.

My son had fun learning abit about different countries and seeing where they are on the map. He particularly seemed to enjoy figuring out what different countries looked like (aka Italy looks like a boot) and then looking for them. Scotland had us fooled for a while since it wasn’t colour-coded or labelled very well on our world map.

We had fun finding countries, we found it interesting that it’s not hosted on the same day all over the world, we found it boring that it’s basically done the same where-ever you go.

Each day has a theme.
Day 1: What Is Mother’s Day? Day 2: The History of Mother’s Day Day 3: Celebrating Mother’s Day Day 4: Preparing for Mother’s Day Day 5: Goodies for Mother’s Day
My son had fun drawing cards for me and for his gramma. I liked that I was able to forego looking up some words in the dictionary and through questions help my lad figure out what words meant.I had a firm appreciation for how scripture was brought into play with this lesson. Helping my son sehttp://www2.blogger.com/img/blank.gife how God used women in the lives of the men he did great works through was interesting.All in all, this study was well-done and I would encourage anyone interested in learning more of why this Mother’s Day holiday was started to check it out.I received a copy of this lapbook/unit study in exchange for my fair and honest review.

more reviews can be found here.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amanda Bennett Unit Studies, Download N Go, lap books, Unit Study

Up in the air…with the greatest of ease..I saw a Kite

March 20, 2011 By Annette1 Leave a Comment




Kite Capers was our main unit study of the past two weeks, day one and Days 2 and 4. Kite Capers has been developed by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett. Kite Capers captured my son’s imagination. To learn more about Kite Capers click here to view more details. It is an excellent study.


One of the fun moments I have as a homeschooling mom is seeing how my son puts to use the information that he learns. Part of the history aspect of kite capers was learning what one of the first uses of kites was. A man name Han Hsing (or something like that..just going from memory here) was attacking a city and he wanted to know how far to dig a tunnel. So we drew pictures of him flying his kite over the city. We acted out the digging of the tunnel and just had a blast learning about this part of kite history. Then he went to my mom and dad’s for a couple of days. When we got there the VERY FIRST thing he did was set up a city and then had an enemy attack that city using a kite.

“How big a tunnel does he have to dig buddy?” I asked
The very excited response was “10 miles mommy! He has to dig 10 miles!”

I LOVE seeing him excited. I LOVE knowing what he remembers.

It’s winter where we live so flying a kite isn’t on our immediate agenda but we stopped at a store to see what treat/toy the lad could buy with his rabbit money and we spotted a couple kits (packed together, inexpensive) and I heard “MOMMY!!! Diamond kites!” So well…of COURSE we had to get them. So now Daddy has a big kite to fly (from last year) and I have a delta and the lad has a diamond kite. I think we’ll have fun this year. 🙂

Each DownloadN’Go unit is a complete unit study designed for grades K-4, not saying you can’t revamp a bit if you have older children. There are 5 days of lessons – which can be done as separate days, or combined two into one, or extending a day as you take small rabbit trails. In Kite Capers you will find the following plan of action:

Day 1: What Is a Kite?
Day 2: The History of Kites
Day 3: Kite People and Places
Day 4: Science Secrets of Kites
Day 5: Goodies and Gadgets of Kites

We didn’t do the entire study, after all…it’s March Break up this way and little boys need to play and get to know their grandparents. 🙂

I particularly enjoyed going through the section on Wind. Learning what my boy knew, helping him to expand his knowledge and use new words. It always interesting to learn just what your child knows. 🙂

If you want to know more Click here to visit Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett. You can read more blog reviews by going here.

As part of the the Download N Go review team, I have been provided with a copy of this unit to use, review, and post about on my blog.

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Letter D Lapbook

October 19, 2010 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

Things I printed off for doing the Letter D Lapbook.

Diddle Diddle Dumpling

Dog Poem – might not use this though, might only take the pictures for letter D words.

D fan book — I like the idea of this but I”m not crazy on the words/pictures. So will probably do something similar, but different.

D Files. Took the trifold hand, and the d is for drawing page.

Kidzone letter D poem. plus this one from the same site. Discover the picture.

Found this neat maze of the letter D.

My lad was quite intrigued by this different type of maze.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alphabet Lap books, lap books

LapBooking

September 27, 2010 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

did you know there is a host of information out there on lapbooking?

what is lapbooking you might ask?

Lapbooking can be done by any learner– from preschoolers to adults. With this educational method, you make mini-books covering details that you’ve studied. After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in a large folder. The finished product is called a lapbook because it’s large and covers your lap.

The completed lapbook will serve as a review tool as your children refer to it over and over again. And if you have to keep a homeschool portfolio to document learning each year, lapbooks can be a very impressive addition.

it’s utterly astounding to this new to homeschooling mom.

Wow! It’s just like scrapbooking what you are learning!!! NEAT!!!

Check out this one : Lapbooking 101

if you go to yahoo groups and look for lapbooking, you’ll come up with this list.

or do a google search for this.

here’s a page with all sorts of templates for designing your own lap book.

Homeschool Resources has a page on Lapbooking.

anyways, I”ll add more perhaps another day. now I”m tired and must go to bed.

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January 30, 2008 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

Should you use a math dictionary? This is the blog post at Homeschool Math Blog that suggested making a dictionary (or a lap book) of math terms.

I liked the idea. Having a little book that Justin, when he is old enough, can write in different math terms that he learns.

Let your child/student make their own math dictionary! Just make a new page in it every time there is a new concept or term to study. The student can write the term, write an explanation, an example calculation, or draw a picture of it − or all of those.

Making such a math vocabulary book shouldn’t take lots of time, because you don’t usually encounter new words every single lesson in a typical math curriculum. The rest of the time the book can act as a reference or as a review medium.

There is one exception though, and that is GEOMETRY. In geometry, just about all the time you have new terms to learn. In fact, a big part of the geometry in elementary grades is simply learning the meaning of words such as parallel, perpendicular, trapezoid, vertical angles, symmetry, diameter, radius, circumference, and so on.

Anyways, go there to read the rest of the post. Thought it interesting, and worth remembering. 🙂

https://anetintime.ca/should-you-use-math-dictionary-this-is/

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