Shannon C Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Does anyone use the lapbook sets by Live and Learn Press along with their Exploring Creation series science by Apologia? We are going to be using Land Animals for science and since my kids are still young, I was thinking of skipping the notebooking, but do want to do something hands on. Is it worth the $25? I've bought premade lapbooks from other publishers in the past and sometimes end up disappointed in quality. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa in MO Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 my ds is using the Live and Learn lapbook with Swimming Creatures of the earth and really likes it. It has worked well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne115 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Hi - I have the Live and Learn set for Land Animals. I have been doing them with my six year old daughter. We have really enjoyed them. For us, they have been worth the money. I plan to purchase a set for Zoology 1 next year. You can see samples online. I usually cut the booklets out and assemble them, but my daughter does the written work. Due to her age, I help her with the harder ones, but she has done really well with them and she enjoys them. She wanted to continue using them next year. Suzanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deana FL Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 We used these lapbooks for Astronomy. I was very happy with them. My kids were 8 and 10 at the time and they did the cutting while I read. I liked the structure of question/answer rather than narration. It seemed like they were getting bogged down with narration in both history and science. We're doing Botany now, without the lapbook...but, I really think if I had it, it would keep on track a little better. Just feeling like nothing sticks without the help of a lapbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 There are lapbooks? I'm giddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 So, is there a lapbook for each chapter, then? That would really work well for us right now as we have already completed the chapters on Insects in Flying Creatures last summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorbackmama Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 We LOVE the LiveandLearn lapbooks. They are very well done. I've used Knowledge Box Central in the past for 2 different things (Apologia and TOG) and was very disappointed with both. I have yet to have a booklet not work with the LiveandLearn ones. They are colorful. The instructions are great. They actually jive with the chapters. My FAVORITE thing is that they aren't true lapbooks with the file folders all folded and glued together. These you glue to cardstock and insert into a binder. So you can have them mixed in with anything else you might want to put (experiement sheets, notebooking pages you might do, etc.) LOVE them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks for telling me that. This just might make Flying Creatures palatable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon C Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks for the info! I went ahead and got the ebook and I think it will be perfect. It's also nice that I can do it in a notebook format and can add in anything else to the binder that goes along with it! Fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April in WA Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Do you use the lapbooks instead of the notebook pages J. Fulbright suggests? Or do you merge the two? Thanks, April in WA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorbackmama Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Do you use the lapbooks instead of the notebook pages J. Fulbright suggests? Or do you merge the two? I personally use the lapbooks instead simply because I don't have the time AND my kids hated the notebooking pages LOL. They tolerate the lapbooks, so that is an improvement. The instructions for the lapbook pages do incorporate some of the recommended notebooking pages though, so it'd be VERY easy to merge them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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