Recently I shared that we were scrapbooking our way through history in lieu of doing lapbooks. I tried lapbooks but honestly, it just didn’t work for me. (That’s not to say I wouldn’t give it another try as I feel like my kids learned a ton!) I have already posted about materials you need and I promised to give step by step directions. . .so here they are! Step 1 Gather Your Learning Materials Decide what you’re studying and what you think is important. This is a “response” project meaning that you do it at the end of the unit … Continue reading →

This is our latest pet project and I must say that it has worked substantially better for me than has lapbooking. One reason is that everything goes into a binder. At our house, this makes it much easier to store and less inviting for the twin demolition team. Another reason is that the project is not dependent on a bunch of little books–which I find difficult to store without someone getting into them before the project is over. Since it’s a binder, we actually plan to add at least one page per time period, or people group that we study, … Continue reading →