I was on Pinterest the other day and I came across something called lapbooking on a homeschooling site. I had never heard of it before and I checked it out because it had a very visual element that I know students will appreciate. Students make mini-books about elements that are related to a common topic. Then they arrange all of the mini-books into a display of one large lapbook. There are a number of websites that can give ideas for lapbooking--just Google it. Many of the sites give photo examples and also templates for making the mini-books.
This is the lapbook my students are making this week as a way to review the reading stragegies they have learned this year. I spent class time demonstrating how to make the individual minibooks. Then I made the lapbook a center this week so the students could write the information inside the minibooks during their worktime.
This is a note from the mom of one of my students:
