Essentials Charts - Lapbook Style

These last few weeks of CC, I've been attempting to find some interesting ways to practice writing our charts for Essentials class.  In previous weeks, as we practiced our Verb Anatomy charts, we taped together four sheets of paper and folded them to place inside his notebook, so we ESSENTIALly had gigantic, poster-sized charts in his notebook.  (When I say "we," I really mean "Stephen."  I can take credit, though, because I make him do this stuff.  Right?)  I liked it.  But I started thinking about how I could encourage our son to like writing out his charts, since it really is more important for him to like it than for me to like it.  Well, let's see... our son likes lapbooking.  So... because we like to stick to the stick-in-the-sand approach, I needed some blank templates if we were going to do this.  And in the deep recesses of my mind, I recalled that Homeschoolshare has tons of free lapbooking templates!  (They even have some that you can type the text into!)    

The result?  Stephen did his charts without sighing.  He even said it was interesting.  Interesting?!?  Writing out your charts was interesting?  Well, my Essentials friends, when used in that context, interesting is NOT a banned word.  

The adverb chart looks bare, but everything is there.  (I seriously did not mean to rhyme that.)

Maybe our 9-year-old son will again start sighing about writing his charts, but I have tons of different templates - and tons of colored paper and cardstock - surely enough for 4 more weeks!

Yep, I think we have a method of soaring through the last four weeks of Essentials!  

Templates used for Adjective Chart:

Questions:  Envelope Book (or a Petal Book with 4 Petals)

Descriptive Adjectives:  Interlock

Possessive Adjectives:  Tri-fold Shutterfold with three shutters

Limiting Adjectives: Pentagon Petal Book

Multi-word Adverbs:  Flapbook

Degrees:  Tri-fold shutterfold with three shutters

Templates used for Adverb Chart:

Questions;  Accordion Fold with 9 sections

1-word adverbs:  4-tab book

Multi-word adverbs:  Tri-fold shutterfold with two shutters

Degrees:  Tri-fold shutterfold with three shutters