Lapbooking and HOD

[Mibellesmom]

You were all right. We did 2 for fun and we were DONE!. We have plenty of samples without adding to it.

[funkmomma71]

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[Heart_Mom]

The ladies are doing a great job of helping you talk through your options. One thing I think you'll find as you travel through HOD is that you will have more than enough samples of work to show your charter, even every 20 days. While you could make your own lapbook to show your charter as you go, I think you'll be surprised that it probably won't be necessary, because you'll have what you need purely through the work samples created from doing the program as written.

It is always up to you on how to handle what you need to provide for your state, but we've never found that any our our guides needed to have anything added to show for documentation as you will truly have a very full portfolio throughout the year from the guide already. If you did choose to add lapbooking, I would recommend doing it on the 5th day each week, and then not doing the HOD guide on that day. You could instead teach the HOD program 4 days a week, leaving the extra day each week free to pursue your own interests, like lapbooking. In this way it will balance your workload each week for both you and your kiddos and allow you to add what you desire. Then, you'd just go 9 extra weeks into the next school year to finish your HOD guides.

Which ever way you choose to go, I just wanted to assure our board readers that it isn't necessary to add to the plans in HOD in order to provide a portfolio. Your kiddos will have a binder full representing every subject area as they complete the HOD guide throughout the year.

We pray you will enjoy your time spent with HOD! We'll look forward to enjoying the journey with you.

Blessings,
Carrie

I haven't gotten to read all the replies, but I did want to say that after doing Bigger, my son has two beautiful notebooks: one for Science and one for History. They are filled with maps he's drawn, notebooking pages on important figures in American history, art projects, science drawings and copywork, and science experiment pages. I think that with HOD, it would be very easy to show the great learning and work that's been done, especially with Bigger on up. HTH!

I'm so excited that we're starting Preparing soon!