Lapbooks-Just the beginning!

Hey all!

Happy Holidays!  So my co-teacher and I wanted to stop giving so many worksheets and multiple choice questions, so we decided (well she had this great idea and I jumped right on!) that after Christmas we would start trying to infuse lap books to help them learn the information and then try and have them apply what they learned through the lap books into grade level texts.

Cue:  Lapbook 101


Here we are today (we didn't have a snow day, but did have a 2 hour delay which is basically the same thing but I can at least be in my classroom)  trying to make 25 lap books to start our kids off with.

Please mind the tons of pictures but I wanted to ensure that you understood what we did!

First we started with a plain manilla folder.  This is the outer layer of our lap book.

We folded the one side so that the tab touched the middle fold.

Then we did the same to the other side.

We were left with a lap book that looked like this:

Now to make the inside of the lap book.

First, we started by cutting off the top parts of the folders (the tabbed area where you would write)

 Next, we cut the folders in Half.  We only did this so that we would have enough flaps for the actual lap books (1 per lap book- so we cut about 13 folders)

 We took a piece of paper and used little baby dots on the outside of the paper to glue it to the back of the lap book.  Baby dots are the key to ensuring that the paper does not get crinkly if you do not have glue sticks.

 Next we put tape on one side of the lap book.  This is so that I can punch holes in the lap book so they can store them in their binders, and i won't get destroyed.

 Almost there!

Now we took the half folder and taped the top to the inside of the folder so that it would flap upwards.

Last, we needed to hole punch the lap books so that they would fit inside the scholars binders.

 Viola!!!!!!

My next post will be about our very first lap book and what they created.  We are planning to make these during our week of testing so that the students can review Main Idea in a positive way.