In March of 2008, my kids created their first lapbook. This was new to me so I decided to start with a basic one. I gathered up some resources online and added them to some I already had. We had been studying all of the states, one at a time, so I decided our first Lapbook would be about the United States in general. We included a labeled U.S. map, a population map, a size map, national motto, along with national bird, flower, presidents, White House, national seal, U.S. holidays, and some native animals. Also a few mini books with the pledge of allegiance, and one about the history of United States coins. There were some other things that I can't remember right now. Also, some of the other children added some different things to theirs. Everyone made one of these. (even my 4 year old, but she made hers very basic... map, flag, animals, Statue of Liberty, and Pledge of Allegiance :) One of my girls worked the hardest at this and I have to say it came out pretty good, especially for a first. She also included a stock card stamp display. She took a few U.S. stamps from her collection and added those. Here are a few pics of her work on that lapbook.
I am sorry that I am not able to give credit as to where or which publisher we got the resources from. At the time, I was new to using the internet for homeschool, and I didn't really pay attention, I grabbed whatever I could find all over the internet.
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