Dee and Cathy travel extensively, in and out of the United States. They also enjoy teaching about this great country, starting from both a historic perspective and a geographic one. Along the route they have put together a number of lapbooks for the use of their own students and other families. Here you find lapbooks and mini units of four sample states: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, and Tennessee; two sample cities: Washington, D.C. and New York City; and two other mini units on National Parks and Animals across the U.S.

This little book brings the history of Jamestown to life with an annotated timeline and simple pictures...A simple look at an important part of our history that was anything but simple.

For many young writers the most difficult part of their task is getting started. They want to write. (Or someone else wants them to write ) But they don't know where to begin. And oftentimes when they do begin, they are overwhelmed by the risks of improper spelling or improper punctuation. This workbook takes away the writer's block and the risks. It gives struggling writers starting points and enough minimal direction to get them writing. It also reminds them that in a rough draft spelling and punctuation are not critical, the writing is. Proper spelling and punctuation are important, but they can come later, after the writing has really begun. The workbook takes the student through the process of improving ten sentences, in four different ways. Only after the student has written a sentence four different ways are they even asked to turn it into a paragraph. And only after they have done all ten sentences and paragraphs are they asked to go beyond those and try their hand at constructing a story. And at that point they are reminded to pay attention to proper spelling and grammar.

Now, in this expanded version, you also receive masters of nine different lapbooks to get you and your students started on the journey to lapbooking fun A lapbook is a portable project filled with pictures and other neat information about a topic. It's a great hands-on way for students to start learning about a topic, or to wrap up a study. But many teachers/parents are intimidated by where to begin with these great resources. Our goal is to take the unknown out of lapbooking and show you how easy it is to incorporate lapbooks into your educational options. There are many bigger and more complicated guides to lapbooking out there - in this booklet we want to show families how easy it can be - and encourage them to add consider it for their homeschooling journey.

Animals are fun for students of all ages. They make great matching games and sorting games, lapbooks and mini units, and more. Here in one place, Catherine, Deirdre, and Maria have gathered together several of their favorite animal resources: **Animals of the World **Animals of the United States **Animals of the Galapagos Islands **Alphabet Animals **Animal Picture Cards **Horses Lapbook/Mini Unit **Leonardo da Vinci's Horse **Beautiful Bountiful Birds **Bird Themed Journal/Copy Book Happy Learning

Catherine and Deirdre have brought together a variety of their travel related materials in one convenient place. They start with their "Ultimate (Field) Trip Survival Guide" - a booklet that gives lots of great suggestions on traveling with children. They follow that up with a variety of lapbooks and mini units, including their Vacation Lapbook, the National Parks Lapbook, and the Washington, and D.C. Monuments and Memorials Mini Unit. Those are followed by two of Catherine's travel journals, Stars Over Central America: The Journal of a Nine-Year-Old and The Lewis and Clark Expedition Jaime-Style. All should help you enjoy travelling (physical and virtual) more with your students

Are you interested in lapbooking but don't know where to start? Are you looking for ways to make American History more hands on and more interesting? Catherine and Dee bring that together in this 100+ page book. Here they give you tips on beginning to lapbook and then nine of their American History lapbooks to get you going: Pilgrims, Jamestown, New York City, George Washington Carver, U.S. Presidents, and more All at a great, introductory price. Happy learning

A fun way to learn the Spanish alphabet A coloring page for each letter is included. Una manera divertida de aprender el alfabeto espanol Una pagina para colorear para cada letra esta incluido.

Catherine and Deirdre give you a simple introduction to lapbooking and a variety of lapbooks they have created through the years about eight different countries (Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Haiti, "Emerald Isle," Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, Panama, and Papua New Guinea). Clearly these countries are a mere sampling of the wonderful countries across the world that you can study with your students. Our hope is that you and your students will take these ideas and put together your own lapbooks after you've done several of these. You will quickly see that these lapbooks have many things in common: maps, flags, timelines, and pictures. They also have one other thing in common - little to no instructions. Catherine and Deirdre believe in giving students and teachers some basic tools to get them started and then the flexibility to go in whichever directions they desire. Add file folders, students, and imagination and you should be ready to go

This large, reproducible book includes numerous resources to help teach students about this important topic It includes Catherine's first Civil Rights book, The Rocky Road to Civil Rights, a Civil Rights Time-line Game, Tales from the Troubled South, and several lapbooks. A discussion ensued at my house while I was finishing this project - was it racist to continue to teach "Black History" separately? To have a Black History month? And is there anything to celebrate when we look at Civil Rights - or is it just a tale of tragedy and misdoings? The discussion certainly made me pause and think. Here are my brief answers to the questions, the way I see them at this point in American History: 1.No, it is not racist to teach Black History separately, as long as it is lacking in our regular History studies, which I think is still the case at the moment. 2.Ditto for having a Black History month. 3.There has certainly been no shortage of tragedy and misdoings on the rocky road to Civil Rights in this country, but there is much to be celebrated along the way. The larger portion of this book, A Rocky Road to Civil Rights, came initially from a lengthy study I did in preparation for a Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration many years ago. I was amazed at how much I didn't know of the events/people that fill its pages. It took me too many years from writing that book to turn most of the dates from it into a Time-Line Game. I had been writing time-line games on a number of historic topics for several years before I finally made the Civil Rights game. Part of me struggled with having a game on such a serious topic - but I finally realized that students often learn well from games, and it was too important a topic not to make into a game. The Troubled Tales book came out of a need to know more (and teach more) about the course of Civil Rights in the state in which I have resided for more than fifteen years. My hope is to eventually write several more in the series, on some of our neighboring states, but what happened in Alabama during the struggle for Civil Rights is important, even to those who don't live here. I only recently finished the Matching Game. It remained a "work in progress" for too many years. There are many more people who could be added to game, it is by no means complete. But I think it gives a good sampling of historic Blacks, many of whom are too often forgotten. My good friend Dee has graciously made the lapbooks of Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and Jesse Owens. Again, the amount of information we didn't know about these three important men was rather staggering. My hope is that this topic will be studied more than one month per year and that someday all Americans will have a greater appreciation for the contributions throughout our history by minorities. The resources here can be used in any order, as stand-alone mini units, or incorporated into the appropriate places in an overall American History study. I also included several "fillers" that I think need to be included more in not just a Black History study, but any American History studies: the relevant portions of the United States Constitution, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and a very small sampling of Phillis Wheatley's poetry.

Over the years we have enjoyed frequent studies of astronomy - particularly the History of Astronomy. I am not an astronomer, I am a historian, and that's how I've approached these studies. During those times we have developed a fair number of educational products to increase our enjoyment - including timeline games, several min-units/lapbooks, and more. Now for the first time, we have put all of those different things together in one book. Here you will find: an introduction to astronomers, mini units on five specific astronomers (Copernicus, Galileo, Charles Messier, William Herschel, and Caroline Herschel), a planets mini unit/lapbook, a mini unit on the development of the microscope and telescope, a History of Astronomy Time-Line Game, and a Space Exploration Time-Line Game. Warning: This is a book about astronomy written by a Christian. As such, it includes Scriptures in several places. If you do not want the Biblical perspective when you teach it, you can easily leave out those portions. For more on lapbooking, see our Lapbooking Made Easy Expanded Edition. There you will find many ideas (general and specific) on using lapbooking in your educational journey.

Please Note: In response to the concerns in some of the reviews, we have come out with the Lapbooking Made Easy Expanded Version. (It includes everything from this, the original book, as well as many sample lapbooks to help get you started. And it only costs $1.00 more ) What is Lapbooking? A lapbook is a portable project filled with pictures and other neat information about a topic. It's a great hands-on way for students to start learning about a topic, or to wrap up a study. But many teachers/parents are intimidated by where to begin with these great resources. Our goal here: Our goal is to take the unknown out of lapbooking and show you how easy it is to incorporate lapbooks into your educational options. Why this booklet? There are many bigger and more complicated guides to Lapbooking out there - in this SMALL, CONSISE booklet we have worked to show families how easy it can be - and encourage them to add consider it for their homeschooling journey.