Noah's ark lapbook!

Last week we did a Noah's ark lap book to go along with our Beginner's Bible!

We also borrowed a REALLY cute book about it from the library.

Inside was lots of fun stuff for the boys to trace, color, and see. 

Ayden mostly just colored, and we went through looking at all the kinds of animals that were on the ark,

and counted 2 of every one. :)

They colored the arks and matched them to how many dots were on the other arks on the back of the lapbook.

Here's the Inside! LOL Ayden makes some interesting creations!

Here's the front! Caleb colored the rainbow on the file folder before I made everything :)

They told me they wanted to make an ark with their blocks. This is

what they came up with. haha

And lastly, here's Caleb cutting out his verse.

And then he put it together with tape. A little out of order, but tis' ok. :)

We had alot of fun with this, and now they want to study rainbows more in depth! So guess 

what we're doing next week?! SO fun! :)

Thankful for free materials & ideas from the following sites:

http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/

http://www.lapbooklessons.com/

We start our school on the 16th!! I'm in the process of getting everything ready, and we are

excited to start. I'll have a post up soon about all of our tools/materials we're using this year! 

Stay tuned!

Adam & Eve Lapbook!

So this summer I decided to try to do a lapbook a week, focusing on stories through

the boys' Beginners Bible. Well, we did our Creation lapbook in May, and now we're only on the 2nd story, Adam & Eve! ;)

Things have been super busy, and we've just been having fun. I've actually had this lapbook made for about a month, but just haven't thought of doing it with the boys.

Here's the before, it's a very simple one. First we read the story out of their Bible,

Ay doesn't really get it yet, but Cbear was very interested!

After reading the story, we reinforced it with the little accordion style book on the left flap of the 

lapbook.

I asked Caleb to tell me what happened in the story and he got it all right!

Ayden decided to go ahead and color. :)

They colored the tree together, and really enjoyed coloring the "bad snake" on there. lol

Then they switched sides and Caleb traced the words (and read them!)

while Ay colored the tree some more. :)

They seemed to enjoy it!

Got pretty much all of my printables for this lapbook at Lapbook Lessons.

So grateful for the resources found there!

Caterpillars, butterflies, and creation!

Since last week we were focusing on Creation, and lately the boys have been so interested in caterpillars,

I decided to dig a little deeper and let the boys discover!

We made a "lunchable style" caterpillar with crackers, ham, & cheese. The boys thought this was pretty funny.

We did our caterpillar lapbook. This was really neat. 

It discussed what happened first, the eggs on the leaves, the caterpillar, the cocoon, and then the butterfly!

Caleb thought that was awesome.

Ayden just watched everything and said the words caterpillar and butterfly a dozen times. ;)

I read the questions to Caleb and he had to answer them.

You see how the second answer is blank? Well here he is making the caterpillars "breathing holes". haha

On the back of the lapbook is 2 Cor. 5:17.

We traced his hands, and added the butterflies body to make a butterfly!

We discussed how Jesus died on the cross so we could become new, and he thought that was neat!

We also read these books a bunch of times. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Caterpillar (Target$1 book), and Hermie and the Big Bully Croaker. The boys love all of these.

Last night I decided to make them a caterpillar pizza since I had some leftover sauce and cheese, and a thing of crescent roll dough in the fridge. They loved it.

Caleb went outside to try to find some caterpillars with some tools Nan Nan bought for some bug discovery. It was really hot outside though, and we didn't look long before Caleb was ready to ride his bike. :)

We also made caterpillars out of an egg carton, googly eyes, and pipe cleaners.

They love doing crafts, and thought these were really goofy looking! They started playing crash the caterpillar. Such boys!

All in all I think our caterpillar discoveries went well! I had fun with it and I think the boys did too. :)

Resources:

http://www.lapbooklessons.com/http://www.preschoolpost.com/index.html