4Real Forums: notebooking help

Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.

Active Topics || Favorites || Member List || Search || About Us || Help || Register || Login

Living Learning
4Real Forums : Living Learning

Topic: notebooking help

Author

Message

<< Prev Topic | Next Topic >>

Lisa R
Forum All-Star

Joined: May 29 2005
Location: Ohio
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 789

Posted: Dec 04 2006 at 5:28pm \| IP Logged

I'd like to have my dc start making notebook pages for all we're learning in History and Science but I have no idea how to go about that.

Any ideas on what goes on a notebook page and exactly what a notebook page looks like?!

Thanks for the help!

__________________
God Bless!
Lisa, married to my best friend, Ray and loving my blessings Joshua (17)and Jacob(15), Hannah(7) and Rachel (5)!Holy Family Academy

lapazfarm
Forum All-Star

Joined: July 21 2005
Location: Alaska
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 6082

Posted: Dec 04 2006 at 7:20pm \| IP Logged

Notebooks can be as simple as a worksheet or written narration in a page protector or as elaborate as a scrapbook or lapbook with photos, pockets, and foldouts. Most run somewhere in between or a combination of diferent styles.
It really just depends on what you want to do with them.
My ds is about the same age as your boys. Here is a link to some of his notebooks:

Notebook photos
Those are his more elaborate ones which he does for unit-studies.
He has simpler ones for science and history. here are some sample pages from those:
History notebook pages-thanksgiving
science journal
The science one is more like a lab book or journal than notebook. In the unit-study notebooks we include all subjects.
Anyway, you can see that even within our own notebooks there is a wide variety of styles depending on the content and the mood ds is in.
My advice would be to just go with whatever feels right to you and develop your own style of notebooking. Make it your own!

__________________
Theresa
us-schooling in beautiful Fairbanks, Alaska.
LaPaz Home Learning

JennyMaine
Forum Pro

Joined: July 26 2005
Location: Maine
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 209

Posted: Dec 06 2006 at 5:02am \| IP Logged

There are lots of websites for notebooking pages, if you just do a google search. But keep in mind that the notebook can be whatever you want in order to meet your learning objectives for your family.

The Apologia science books for elementary have free downloads for making a science notebook. You can see there what a notebooking page looks like, but of course, the information isn't filled in.

Jen

__________________
--JennyMaine, Mom to Catherine (17) and Sam (15) "The countenance is a reflection of the soul. You should always have a calm and serene countenance." -- Therese of Lisieux

Lisa R
Forum All-Star

Joined: May 29 2005
Location: Ohio
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 789

Posted: Dec 06 2006 at 4:03pm \| IP Logged

Thanks for the help! Theresa, your notebooks/lapbooks are incredible!

I did a search on notebooks on the forum and came up with a number of resources. Guess I should have done that first!

Thanks!

__________________
God Bless!
Lisa, married to my best friend, Ray and loving my blessings Joshua (17)and Jacob(15), Hannah(7) and Rachel (5)!Holy Family Academy

Erin
Forum Moderator

Joined: Feb 23 2005
Location: Australia
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 5814

Posted: Dec 07 2006 at 1:19am \| IP Logged

Lisa R wrote:

I did a search on notebooks on the forum and came up with a number of resources. Guess I should have done that first!

I was about to do that for you

I LOVE notebooking, have fun

__________________
Erin
Faith Filled Days
Seven Little Australians

Willa
Forum All-Star

Joined: Jan 28 2005
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3881

Posted: Dec 07 2006 at 5:19pm \| IP Logged

I just found this site Notebooking Pages -- it looks interesting.

Also, Cindy Rushton has some books about notebooking.

__________________
AMDG
Willa
hsing boys ages 11, 14, almost 18 (+ 4 homeschool grads ages 20 to 27)
Take Up and Read

TracyQ
Forum All-Star

Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: New York
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1323

Posted: Dec 08 2006 at 1:25pm \| IP Logged

Here's a GREAT site to help you understand it more too:

www.Notebooking.org

I belong to a yahoogroup on notebooking that has a ton of great info and notebooking help in their FILES and LINKS on their page. You join the group, and have access to all of them:

Notebooking Yahoo Group

Here are a few other great websites to help:

Homeschooling Mom Notebooking page

Notebooking Overview

Article on Notebooking by Cindy Rushton

Site with some pages to use with notebooking

Fueling the Fire with Notebooks

To Notebooking, Lapbook, or Scrapbook article

Great notebooking page
Form page for above link

The Notebooking Corner

The Notebook Corner's Beginner's Guide to Notebooking

Another helpful site for notebooking

As with all things, it can be ovewhelming, and it's often good to begin slowly, and see how it goes. We do a lot of notebooking, often replacing the work in the book itself with some sort of notebooking pages, or the questions, etc. are done on other paper for their notebooks, and sometimes we'll add in extra more fun or creative notebook pages to tie the learning all in or to go more in depth.

And with all things, some families may want to notebook one subject, say a notebook for history only or religion or something, then as time goes on, if it's something that works well, you can expand and do more.

This year, we're using notebooking for The Prairie Primer with our daughter, and also doing The Liturgical Year notebook while studying Cay Gibson's Catholic Mosaic. So far, Sarah has created two Saint Nicolas notebooking pages to begin, and she'll do an ADVENT page to start the notebook off, then she'll add in The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary for today's feast day, making a notebooking page for it. She'll probably choose blue for her paper color (for Mary), and then we'll find a pretty picture online that she'll either color or we'll just print out in color, she'll cut and paste it, and then write a bit about it, etc. She'll add in a Scripture verse on the Blessed Mother or a beautiful quote about her from a saint, and then put it all together on a pretty page.

That's an example of notebooking. It brings to life the learning that they are doing, rather than just read, fill in blanks, etc. And in the end, they've created teasured keepsakes, or have created a really neat keepsake of the hard work they do, and we find it often makes their learning so much more real to them, because they've invested their own creativity, research, and understanding into the topic we're learning.

I hope this helps you some anyway.

__________________
Blessings and Peace,
Tracy Q.
wife of Marty for 20 years, mom of 3 wonderful children (1 homeschool graduate, 1 12th grader, and a 9th grader),

homeschooling in 15th year in Buffalo, NY

Lisa R
Forum All-Star

Joined: May 29 2005
Location: Ohio
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 789

Posted: Dec 08 2006 at 3:11pm \| IP Logged

Wow! Thanks for all the suggestions. I guess notebooking is not as hard as I thought!

__________________
God Bless!
Lisa, married to my best friend, Ray and loving my blessings Joshua (17)and Jacob(15), Hannah(7) and Rachel (5)!Holy Family Academy

marihalojen
Forum All-Star

Joined: Feb 12 2006
Location: Florida
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1883

Posted: Dec 08 2006 at 3:34pm \| IP Logged

Tracy!
I came back to thank Willa for her link that I got sidetracked with yesterday and found your post full of links today! If it took me a day to get around to thanking Willa for one link, I guess you can look for your thank you in a couple of weeks!

Just Joking - I'll have fun exploring.

Thanks Willa and Tracy!

__________________
~Jennifer
Mother to Mariannna, age 13
The Mari Hal-O-Jen
SSR = Sailing, Snorkling, Reading

TracyQ
Forum All-Star

Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: New York
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1323

Posted: Dec 11 2006 at 8:21am \| IP Logged

Jennifer! You're most welcome!

__________________
Blessings and Peace,
Tracy Q.
wife of Marty for 20 years, mom of 3 wonderful children (1 homeschool graduate, 1 12th grader, and a 9th grader),

homeschooling in 15th year in Buffalo, NY

Willa
Forum All-Star

Joined: Jan 28 2005
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3881

Posted: Dec 11 2006 at 10:34am \| IP Logged

You're welcome, Jennifer--
and thanks Tracy and others for the notebooking info -- it's useful.

__________________
AMDG
Willa
hsing boys ages 11, 14, almost 18 (+ 4 homeschool grads ages 20 to 27)
Take Up and Read

Donna Marie
Forum All-Star

Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: New Jersey
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2530

Posted: Dec 11 2006 at 1:35pm \| IP Logged

I have a question!

I know how to make watermark paper in my word program...do you know how I can fix it so that I can type across it? I love the examples at Louise's blog But instead of putting text boxes on top I wanted to type...does this make sense??

I am a bit techno-challenged, but I am learning!! My creative streak is trying to overpower my ignorance

God Love you!
Donna Marie from NJ
hs momma to 7dc

__________________
God love you!
Donna Marie from NJ
hs momma to 9dc!!
Finding Elegant Simplicity

lapazfarm
Forum All-Star

Joined: July 21 2005
Location: Alaska
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 6082

Posted: Dec 12 2006 at 8:56pm \| IP Logged

Donna Marie wrote:

I just tried it out on my Word program. I used a picture from my file as a watermark and was able to type right over it.
What problem are you having?

__________________
Theresa
us-schooling in beautiful Fairbanks, Alaska.
LaPaz Home Learning

Donna Marie
Forum All-Star

Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: New Jersey
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2530

Posted: Dec 12 2006 at 9:06pm \| IP Logged

Hi Theresa!

I used a file pic as a watermark, but when I want to type, it wants to type under it... I guess I got to go back and fiddle with it in my (spare) time

~any hints to a better end product?

God Bless you!
Donna Marie from NJ
hs momma to 7dc

__________________
God love you!
Donna Marie from NJ
hs momma to 9dc!!
Finding Elegant Simplicity

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login
If you are not already registered you must first register

[Add this topic to My Favorites]

Printable version

Forum Jump

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

Hosting and Support provided by theNetSmith.com