Ever since the Thanksgiving lapbook Fiona has been BEGGGGGGING to make another lapbook. In our history program they have optional reading lists including historical fiction and informative books to delve deeper into the topics. One of the stories was a short chapter book, The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Delgliesh (abbrev. as S.N. from now on). I found a free lapbook at homeschool share for the story and so decided that would be our next lapbook.
Then in my homeschool group I heard from quite a few people that they also loved lapbooking so I made an event to make our own lapbooks to trade! I put in soooooo many hours on the lapbook, making up 10 of my own booklets, redesigning/remaking 2 booklets and then using 4 of the booklets from the S.N lapbook I had found online, and reusing 1 element from the Thanksgiving lapbook. We ended up with a huge 2.5 folder lapbook for this short (an adult could read it in well under an hour) chapter book, LOL.
I have never made up a lapbook booklet before, but had a ton of fun doing this!
So here is the huge lapbook! At the end I will post links to download the lapbook and I will also post a link of my daughter doing a video showing off her lapbook....... If you read this post and liked it please post a comment! If you don't then tell me why!
Like I said we did 2.5 folders for this book, but 2 folders would have been plenty. Here is how you connect the folders....
There are two covers, Fiona decided which one went where. One is a photocopy of the books cover, the other is a random free coloring page I found on Google.... I will try to find who made it to give proper credit.
Onto the inside.....
I made the Charades game, The middle book (which isn't done yet, it will be a photo album of Fiona making the lapbook and cooking). I used pictures from the actual book for the middle booklet and the alphabetizing book. I was going to use a different picture for the colonial cooking pocket but I had already printed out the other lapbook so just went with it. I just googled for recipe cards and found one liked. The top right booklet also came from the premade lapbook, and I used it cause it was already printed but I put my own spin on it asking Fiona to in her own words say what the book was about and then I had her write that one sentence down.
The Charades cards are super bulky and heavy once laminated and no matter where I put them in the book they kept falling out, so i made a holder for them and its all better now :)
First time I ever really have Fiona alphabetize anything, and I give her these names, I am so mean... But she got it with very little help!
Under the green flap there are three booklets here in the middle were all taken from the premade lapbook.
Fiona wrote in the matchbooks the names of the animals and trees Sarah talks about.
This says that the book won the Newberry award, don't know why she wrote it upsides down....
Self explanatory, I found the pictures just from google (yes I love google image search).
The pocket is from the homeschool share lapbook. Not what I was planning on using, however I had printed out the entire lapbook, so figured I would just use the pieces I could instead of printing out new.
Fiona's one sentence saying what the entire story was about. I think her handwriting is really good! Especially for writing on blank paper :)
I drew the quilt that is on the red tab, Fiona colored it in obviously. I think you could get away with only using two folders. If you wanted to you could put the quilt and the alphabetized names in the middle with the big photo album booklet and then the award on the lower left hand, the forest animals on the yellow flap that has nothing (the opposite side of the charades flap has nothing) and the lifestyles of the woodland Indians on the red flap where the quilt is.
Here are the recipes we have tried from the colonial time period! We definitely do NOT recommend the mush. Supposedly others have made it and liked it, so if you want to try it more power to you.
This is the layout of the second folder.
More from google images... I'll post links when I find them again.
This is from the homeschool share lapbook, these are some of the things that really scared Sarah, Fiona went through and decided which she thought were scary and how scary they were.
This is again the same color wheel we used for the Thanksgiving lapbook from the Goody O'Grumpity lapbook on homeschool share. Did you know brown and pink are considered warm colors? I didn't know until I checked wikipedia :) So with that said EVERY color mentioned in the book is a warm color!
If you can't read it here Fiona said (and I wrote down) what she remembered Sarah being afraid of, and what made Sarah feel better. Then she also listed her own fears and thing that made her feel better.
This was a coloring page I found, its rather confusing being as summer and spring could be switched. The tree in spring should be blooming as well as having the daffodils. But anywho we decided to go with the flowers for spring and the sun for summer.
I drew the picture of the girl praying! That wasn't a google find! I am rather proud of my picture :)
These are all the vocabulary words we found in the book, Fiona knew a fair number of the words without me needing to give a description. Being as her reading isn't that advanced, and writing out all that with definitions would take her forever I just added the 3x5 card to show that it will easily fit in the pocket for other parents using this with older children, so you don't have to make pages, just use 3x5 cards.
So that is the whole lapbook! We also did several recipes, and used popsicle sticks to build a log cabin... here are some of our action shots from the activities....
She made the corn mush *completely* on her own (i just read the directions)
She was super excited to get to turn on the burner by herself, I actually had to teach her how to do it O,o Its crazy how something so basic you have to teach!
And here you have your mush......
Making Colonial Carrot and Pecan cake for Easter.....
BEST CARROT CAKE EVER!!!!!
I will admit to cheating a little for the carrot cake and changed the recipe a bit.
I looked at several other recipes and found that people said the baking powder gave it a weird taste and being as there is no acid to activate it, its useless, so I added more baking soda and skipped the baking powder. I also added some molasses (to make my own brown sugar), 1 cup of shredded coconut, some cloves and i grated some nutmeg in as well.... For the frosting I reduced the amount of sugar and added a splash of milk to help everything actually mix...
This is seriously the best carrot cake I have ever eaten. We made it for Easter and then again the next week!
Here is the (adjusted) recipe.....
Ingredients
4 eggs
1 1/4 cup veg oil
2 cups white sugar (or half white half brown if you buy brown sugar)
molasses to make light brown sugar (1 Tbsp maybe??? i dont measure it)
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
ground cloves (maybe 1 tsp)
nutmeg (maybe 1/2 tsp)
3 cups grated carrots (grate on the normal cheese one otherwise the cake can be to watery)
1 cup shredded coconut (can be omitted, you can't really taste it, but helps with water and i like the texture it gives)
1 cup chopped pecans
Frosting
1/2 cup butter (softened)
8 oz cream cheese (softened)
3 cups confectioners sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (I probably used closer to 1 Tbsp)
splash of milk
pecans to put on top
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13 pan
- In a large bowl beat the eggs together, add oil, white sugar, molasses and vanilla. Mix well.
- Mix in flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Finally mix in carrots, coconut and pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan
- For the frosting combine butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla into a bowl and beat until mixture is smooth and creamy (if doing this by hand you will probably need to add in a splash of milk, no more then 2 Tbsp). Frost cake and decorate with remaining pecans
Enjoy!!!!
The link to Fiona going over her lapbook is here; Fiona's video
I will upload the lapbook pieces so they can be downloaded once I have everything in a nice file.
And, now to go prep for the next lapbook.....
