Oh what a wonderful way to start the school year. I am new to lapbooks and just discovered how fun and cool they are. http://www.homeschoolshare.com/summer_olympics_2008_lapbook.php
Click above for a wonderful free lapbook for the Beijing Olympics. You can modify it and use only what you want and create other interesting items to add to it as well.
We were curious about the Olympic Torch. We found out that a new one is created each Olympics and we created a copy of the Beijing torch and added it to our lapbook. We also choose 2 women athletes to study and Kayla picked a swimmer and Shae picked a gymnast. We also learned that the color "Red" is the Chinese people's favorite color and that it means "Sun and Holy Fire - a new beginning".
We even looked up their names in Chinese and copied their name character. Now that the Olympics will start this coming weekend we can watch for our favorite athlete, watch all the events that we learned about, and even graph the medals for our team (USA). Here are a few pics of the lapbook. Sorry for some of the pics being blurry as I think I was too close and in a hurry.
