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Becky Parker
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Posted: April 14 2010 at 3:23pm \| IP Logged

Speaking of notebooks ...
I know we talk about what we use our notebooks for here and there, but I'm wondering if we could list, or talk about the subjects for which we use our notebooks. I don't mean a "spiral bound for math" type list, but a list of those notebooks that we make special in some way, like copy work notebooks or nature journals. It would help me to get an idea of how many notebooks you all have your children keep and what "type" of notebook it is (binder, spiral, leather bound ...).
For next year I would like my kids to have:

~a Liturgical Year notebook. I think a binder would work best here.

~a Copy Work notebook (for which I'm trying to think of a special name to make it seem "important"). If I could find something with lined pages that are suitable, I'd like to use a hard bound notebook for these.)

~a Nature Journal. We use spiral bound artist sketch books for these.

~a History notebook (We started these this year and we are enjoying them.)We use a binder for these.

~a geography notebook (Maybe combine with history?)

What other subjects lend themselves well to notebooks? Is it possible to have too many notebooks? I don't want to overwhelm my kids, or me!

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Posted: April 14 2010 at 4:45pm \| IP Logged

Becky

After trying various methods over the years for the past three years we have stayed with the same approach. I now purchase a spiral notebook that divides into 3 or 4 subjects. It became a bit of a nightmare keeping track of too many notebooks.

Each child has a 4 subject binder, this is their Language Arts notebook. Sections are labeled; dictation, spelling, copywork (for my teens), creative writing.

My teens also have another 4 subject notebook. These are labeled; Faith, History, Geography, Science. They have used these for maths in the past too but they use a different program now.

My primary aged children use individual Botany Notebooks for Faith, History, Geography. And this year we bought a science notebook for Science. Their copywork is in special lined handwriting book.

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Posted: April 14 2010 at 6:25pm \| IP Logged

We do all of our school work this way. We take a artistc approach to all of our subjects and are big journal-ers so it comes naturally.

Right now dd has a special book for

*math
* saints/liturgical year
* copy-work/poetry
*nature drawing/science experiments
*art challenges (sketch Tuesday or watercolor wed. etc)
and one for what ever we are currently studying.

We use a combination of hand made blank books and spiral bound art sketch books and binders.

It is a bit chaotic as we have dozens of notebooks around but the kids know which ones are which. Mommies desk is covered in notebooks and journals too so i dont mind.

I let them name their books- in the past dd's note books have been named, "words, words words," and "Spectacular words" , a big big big world, "the math adventures of diamond war fairy" "the science log-warning do not touch!" and "my church year"

I use the boring title " go get your math notebook" but she knows what to get

At the end of the year i take everything to staples or wherever and have it all spiral bound into one or 2 big books of work for the year - the kids spend a lot of time looking at their old books.

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Posted: April 15 2010 at 7:58am \| IP Logged

I do something similar - We have a language binder with divider tabs for Spelling, Copywork, Grammar, Literature lists. A sketchbook for a Nature Journal. A spiral notebook for poetry. A binder for History, A binder for Science, and a binder for Geography. Each child has their own rubbermaid tub for their binders/notbooks. There is lined paper and copy paper and page protectors on the table for them to use for their binders. It works for us.

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