I received a question about my blog last night via email; I thought I would answer it publicly since others may be wondering the same thing–
Hi, I just stumbled across your site while researching lap books for use with my children. Wow! You have helped your son create some incredible lap books and learning memories. 🙂 A question…approximately how long do you spend on each lapbook/subject?
Thanks for your kind words. 🙂
When my son was younger (kindergarten), we only spent one week on each lapbook or unit study that we did. We didn’t (and still don’t) lapbook every unit. This year we are extending some of our unit studies (and lapbooks) in to longer studies. My son wants to dig deep!
We don’t do daily subjects– history, science, spelling, grammar, etc. We don’t do a lot of traditional schooly type things. By ditching textbooks, workbooks, and other institutionalized methods, we are free to take full advantage of our time and energy.
Our basic breakdown looks like this
Math (RIghtstart Level B)
Unit Study
Seriously.
This allows us to really concentrate on our unit/lapbook spending 1-2 hours each day reading living books, doing experiments, and creating mini-books.
My son is a voracious reader, so reading instruction has become unneccessary. He does narrations for me of what he is reading. Our handwriting is included within our unit studies.
We do other bits & pieces once/week- Tea Time with poetry, Kinderbach, Nature Study
I try (key word is try) to do a 2-3 minute Artist Study each day. We just finished Van Gogh and are getting ready to start Picasso. I hope to have a post about this soon.
Hope that helps!
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