Revolutionary War Lapbook

Noah has become a huge history buff this year. When we go to the library, he purposely goes to the nonfiction section, and checks out books on presidents, and wars. I am not sure where this has come from, and he will even just start spitting out random history facts in conversations. Clay and I just look at each other like, "who is this kid"? He didn't get that from us. So, he decided he really wanted to learn about the Revolutionary War. I searched and searched for a lapbook already made up for this, b/c I need a guideline, and things spelled out for me. I wasn't able to find one, but I did find one from http://www.currclick.com/ that was on sale for $2 to go along with the book below, so I purchased it. I LOVE the Magic Treehouse books. We have a bunch of them, and both Noah and Leah love reading them. This book only covers the final battle of the War, when Washington crossed the Delaware river.

After completing the above lapbook, I decided that we needed to expand on it, so I searched the internet for info and photos, and composed another lapbook, that gave an overview of the whole war. This is the first lapbook I have done on my own, I usually find free ones on the internet that already have all the pages to them that I just have to print out.

I found these free paperdolls online to print out that were all characters from the Revolutionary War. I printed them on cardstock, and Noah loves these. http://www.paperdali.com/index.html

Noah loves to draw. For all these pictures, he just sat down on his own and drew them. I wish I could have been that way as a child. It was always such a chore for me to draw anything. Not Noah, he would rather be drawing than writing. There are so always so many little details in his pictures.