DragonflyAcademy Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 My son will be nearly 5 1/2 this fall when we start a more "formal" program of learning at home...I'd like to use Five In a Row with him..I was wondering if one uses FIAR and also combines it with the Lap Books from Homeschool Share.. is he too young for the Lap Books?? Or should I just stick to the FIAR curriculum and not add in the Lap Books? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Mine love lapbooks- they aren't very pretty at this age because they want to do all the cutting and gluing themselves.... My kids love the crafts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonflyAcademy Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Do you do the writing for them.. having them dicate the answers?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyerin Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I am not planning to lapbook with FIAR this year. I might do one or two with my daughter, since she likes cutting, pasting, etc, but my boys would hate it. I think FIAR can be plenty rich sticking to the manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 We did FIAR & HSS Lapbooks. My kiddo ate them up. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelbe5 Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Lap books were becoming the rage when I used FIAR. We did one or two. I could tell my oldest dd felt as though it was busy work and it was A LOT of prep work for me. So I think you will need to see what works best for you and your child. For us, just doing the original lessons and keeping it simple worked best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 My son is 6.5, so he does the writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie in MS Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 When my dd was that age her motor skills weren't there. But she loved what we did do. I tried to find the pieces that she could handle best. There are some that give the option of the answer being typed up already so all the child has to do is cut, match and glue. No writing involved. When there was writing I made sure it was very short and I would draw some lines for her. I never worried about doing an entire lapbook. Not even now that she is 7. Just take what we like and leave the rest. There are handwriting sheets at HSS that you may be interested in. They have a sentence from each book that your child can trace and copy for handwriting practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallingjan Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 My oldest daughter felt that lap books were cruel punishment. And I honestly didn't like putting them together. My littles might be different though, they seem to learn a little differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 We did FIAR without lapbooks and never missed them. My daughter's portfolio wound up including a lot of photographs of her doing various exercises/activities, plus occasional written work like records from a science experiment we did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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