"Lapbooks" or "Unit Studies" are themed lessons that may extend over several days or weeks. Each lapbook or unit is based upon a particular idea, story, poem, holiday, person, event, etc. The lessons within the theme can include all curriculum subject areas such as language arts, math, science , social studies, art, music, etc.
Lapbooks or Unit Studies are especially great with the younger children (pre-school through elementary school, as they grasp concepts better through the repetition of a theme over several days.
For example, with my pre-school grandson over the past week and a half, we have been learning about our national holiday - St. Patrick's Day. Our lessons encompassed Social Studies (holidays, celebrations, history of St. Patrick, geography/Ireland and its flag, myths/leprechauns and the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, superstitions/kissing the Blarney Stone, and religion/Christianity), Science (the plant clover/shamrocks), Math (the number 3 - a shamrock normally has 3 parts to its leaf), Colors ( green, and the colors of the rainbow), Art (the various projects we have done in relation to St. Patrick's Day), etc.
Check out the various ideas for lapbooks / unit studies here:
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Lapbooks-at-HSS.php
The two links below especially caught my eye for possible use with my grandson during his next pre-school year, when he is 4 years old:
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/alphabet_notebook.php
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/my_body.php
Enjoy!
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