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cathhomeschool wrote:
Theresa,
Can you put links up to your son's notebooks? I think that they are great examples!
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Sure!
Dragon Notebook
Christmas Notebook
Pirate Notebook
Hope that is useful.
These notebooks are kind of like a combination notebook/lapbook. Although they have a notebook format, they have the fold-outs, mini-books, etc of a lapbook. Just our way of doing things.
I wanted to say also that these notebooks are for our more involved unit-studies. Our regular notebooks for history and religion are not nearly so elaborate, but may have a fold-out here and there.
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erin wrote:
If this is the journey that you feel YOUR family is to go on you have certainly come to the right place here on the forum. But remember it is easy to feel overwhelmed trying to reproduce yourself into someone else. You must discern what is for you and make changes in manageable size bits. Sometimes today there is such a wealth of information and resources that we can nearly drown.
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Thank you for those gems 
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Not at all! - thank you for what you have shared so far - I have a fluffy breastfeeding head at present so you are excused! 
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I have 2 girls and they are 3.5yo and almost 5yo. I want to lapbook with them. We're doing FIAR and i'd like to do a lapbook for every book we row and maybe some unit studies that come out of it. I'd like to do this too in order to keep somewhat of a record. Is it time consuming?? I imagine i'll be doing a lot of it for them since they're so young but i'd still like to do it. It sounds like it would be fun and they'd enjoy it, even if im the one doing the hard stuff. lol
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I wrote a chapter in Cay's first book, *Literature Alive* on this very subject!
Here's a great article that will help shed light on the differences, with some neat resources:
Lapbooking, Notebooking, and Scrapbooking
Here are some resources that I have listed on a resource sheet I have saved in my computer, that I handed out after a talk that I gave on this subject, just in case it may help:
These are resources that talk about both lapbooking and notebooking:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CindyRushton/4670/
http://groups.msn.com/RestRefreshmentHomeschoolingwaSpirit-F illedLife/notebooking.msnw
NOTEBOOKING:
http://www.notebooking.org/ (wonderful site!)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Notebooking/ (a yahoo list for notebookers..great!)
http://www.ignitethefire.com/fuel.html
http://homeschoolunitstudies.com/TG/curriculum/portfolios.ht m
http://highland.hitcho.com.au/notebooking.htm
http://journals.aol.com/hestiahomeschool/HomeschoolingJourna l/entries/2505
http://www.geomatters.com/articles/details.asp?ID=16
http://www.geomatters.com/products/category.asp?CID=4
http://www.homehearts.com/Notebooking.html
http://www.aprairiehome.com/homeschooling/spirit_led/noteboo king.html
http://www.crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1283193.html
http://www.cindyrushton.com/articles.html (many articles here on notebooking)
http://www.thehomeschoolshop.com/nhs-articles-notebook.html
http://home.att.net/~bandcparker/parkerkids.html (click on newsletters)
LAPBOOKING:
http://scrapbookingtolearn.com/
http://www.cindyrushton.com/articles.html (there’s an article on lapbooking here)
http://www.geocities.com/gibsevengang/lapbooks.html
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/teacherslounge/lapbooks.php (has tons of sites on it.. great resource on this topic!)
http://www.thehomeschoolshop.com/nhs-articles-lapbook.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~joann1052/id24.html
http://www.classicaleducation4me.com/lapbooking.html
http://www.tobinslab.com/downloads/lapbook1.jpg
http://www.tobinslab.com/downloads/lapbook2.jpg
Hope this is a help!
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Erin wrote:
Theresa and Janette,
I hope you realised what Theresa describes wasn't what I meant when I refered to a mother doing ALL the work. |
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Oh Erin! I definitely understood what you meant and know there's a huge difference between the mom doing the work and the mom helping out. Your comment had just reminded me of my failed lapbook attempt. "Our" craft projects started out like that many years ago. I'd check out a cute book from the library (from the Crafts for Kids Who are Wild About.... series) and the boys would pick a craft. They'd ask for help, and then wander off, asking that I call them when it was done!  Well, I complied a few times, and then started telling them no way! How could they learn and take off on their own if I did all the work?
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| This is just my opinion, others may disagree but to try and do it all will be too much. There may come a time when you realise you can let go of some of your workbooks if you are already covering those areas in other ways. Notebooking does take up time, however so many skills are learnt this way. |
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This is so true. And when you're trying to go from one method or school of thought to another, big changes can be daunting -- and difficult to accomplish! As Erin said a little later in her post, "You must discern what is for you and make changes in manageable size bits."
Julie (of Bravewriter) recommends choosing One Thing to try to do well each day. Baby steps are so important. Maybe you can give lapbooking a try (call it a week "break" from school). Start with copying someone else's lapbook or notebook, so that you have a plan to follow. (That's how we started.) Since it's "vacation" from your regular schedule, there's no pressure, and you can see if you and your kids like it or not. If you can't devote a week to something like this, then maybe you could devote an hour or two a day to it for a couple of weeks. Would it be easier to drop a workbook if you knew you'd be picking it up again at the beginning of July? Just some ideas to consider.
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Just wanted to come back and thank everyone for helping & advising me with this 'new and exciting' direction I hope to take.
I have some really good links that I am checking out and will explore further in my school holidays (3days to go!!) I have also gotten onto a borrowed copy of Elizabeth's book and I am about to purchase The Ultimate Lapbook Handbook which should hopefully be a good hands-on reference book for me, by the sounds of it.
Thank you once again!
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