Lapbook by book or Subject?

[Tara_FL]

I have done lapbooks all last year by subjects with my son, but now that we are going to begin FIAR, they are all by book. I can't decide to go ahead and do them by book, or separate them buy subject in a notebook style format.

With the subject way, we could see as it grows what we have covered in the year, but I do like the ease of putting it all in one folder.

Has anyone else struggled with this? Or have any ideas? I did read the post on how you have been storing them, and I will be taking some ideas from there too.

thanks,
Tara

[Kendra AU]

We lapbook by FIAR Title. :)

[Paige P]

We lapbook by FIAR Title. :)

Same here except we "notebook" (same concept except we use a spiral bound notebook to store our "memories" ).

[Susan A]

Same here except we "notebook" (same concept except we use a spiral bound notebook to store our "memories" ).


Same here!!!

[MarieD]

We also do our lapbooking/notebooking by FIAR title, but you really can't go wrong doing it either way. I think Jane Lambert actually recommended in keeping a subject notebook before lapbooks became popular.

[Tara_FL]

Thanks, I think I will keep with the title. The more I thought about it, it just seems easier to keep it all together rather than having a different folder every day for the subjects.

I think I might use the 3 prong colored folders to make the "books". I don't own a lot of the books, and get them from the library, so I was thinking that this way we would have the "book" after we make it. Pros: The pockets make it easier to store extra activities that are to big to glue, as well as pictures of us doing the activities, a tad easier to store (my covers on the lapbooks have been getting messed up and don't stay shut.). The cons that I see: maybe too much excess space? not sure what else I am missing. Back to school is already set up, so I would stock up on these folders while they are cheap:).