The Crazee Chick's View of Life

" I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain Whoo hooo! All thirteen Articles of Faith are MEMORIZED!!! ( These are thirteen of the basic beliefs of our religion.) We approached the memorizations very slowly in the beginning (we started last September 2006) and then forgot about them for awhile, but just a month ago I made a lapbook of the remaining 8-13 articles and it put the kids' memorization powers into hyperspeed! They learned one or two a day! I couldn't believe what a great tool this turned out to be! Here are some pictures of my mini-lapbook: Lapbooks and notebooking have been a wonderful addition to our curriculum! The girls really love doing them and don't even mind the research they have to do to complete the mini-books. What a fantastic concept! I love homeschooling..I love watching the kids learn and grow in all areas but I feel the greatest amount of growth occurs in the after school hours where they are able to pursue th...

Oh no...something else to distract me from the laundry, cooking, cleaning and other household chores that I abhor! Lapbooks!! I've just recently learned about this new phenomenon and am now in the throes of planning, organizing and creating! I remember getting this way about File Folder games years ago....I spent so much time coloring and laminating them but it was so worth it because my kids still use them. The first book I'm putting together is to help my kids memorize the Articles of Faith. I've got my clipart and my ideas...now I just have to stick them all together and see how it's received and how well it works. Another great thing about lapbooks is the kids can compile them to serve as reviews for their school work...history, latin vocabulary, scripture memorization, unit studies...oh, the possibilities are endless! Somebody stop me!!!!