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Bella
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I'm still not getting the notebooking concept.  
Is the purpose to journal...so that DD has her own book on each subject?
Do you notebook each subject?
I have read the threads regarding this topic-but my menopausal brain isn't allowing it to sink in.   (Nice excuse huh?)
Thanks for any help!
Christy
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I think it's not clear because people notebook in so many different ways and for many different reasons. For some it's a learning toll, others use them to allow the child to express themselves in a neat, but not contraining way. Our children love to have their own learnng notebooks to read through and show off, but we just do one journal for whatever. It would be too much for us to do one journal per subject per child. After a few years we'd have over 100 notebooks.
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Christy,
Here are some samples you can see to get the idea of what notebooking is:
Notebooking Samples
And here are a couple of great websites that will explain and help you with notebooking:
Notebooking Pages
Notebooking Overview
To Notebook, Lapbook, or Scrapbook article
Excellent resource for notebooking
Ignite the Fire
You just have to spend some time on the websites to get to understand notebooking. It can be used for any type of learning, and in whatever way you choose. We love to pull all of our learning together with notebooking. It doesn't have to be fancy, it's just essentially pulling their learning together for each subject into notebooks.
The thing I love about this is that it suits my needs so well, because I pull their lessons from so many places, that it gives us a place to put everything together, a sort of coursebook of their learning, and makes the subject, and all that was accomplished more visual, and not so haphazard.
For example, for English, we'll put all of their grammar, writing, vocabulary, spelling, poetry, literature, etc. in it. Anything they do that falls under *English* goes into their coursebook for English, and then at the end of the year, we can see all we did for that subject. It's a great way to be able to pull other things into their subject for that year too that may not be included in their *textbook*, OR if you pull things from all sorts of placses like I do, and homeschool so eclecticly, this is a GREAT way to show their work more collectively.
It's also a great way to give them one notebook just for pursuing a topic of interest they just choose for themself. For example, one year, our daughter chose BUTTERFLIES, and researched them. We listed the books she used to research, the books she read about them, the labelled butterfly and colored ones she did, a story about a butterfly she wrote (or poem, I don't remmeber), etc. It brought the entire topic together, even though we'd collected the information and pictures from many resources.....the internet, books, etc.
I hope this helps some. If you have any other specific questions, just ask! 
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Tracy Q.
wife of Marty for 20 years, mom of 3 wonderful children (1 homeschool graduate, 1 12th grader, and a 9th grader),
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Christy, has that helped?
We use notebooks (3 ring binders) as our records of what we've studied. (The boys have their own personal spiral notebooks that they use as journals, for creative writing, etc.) Right now, my older two each have a Book of Centuries (which contains narrations, photographs of project, small timelines, coloring pages, art projects to accompany narrations of artists' lives), a Liturgical Year notebook (which contains some feast day stuff and the Easter Vigil project we did a few years back), a math/language arts notebook (which contains math journal entries, extra worksheets, narrations of fictional writings) and another notebook that contains nature study, art projects and unit study stuff.
How we organize our notebooks changes as we throw out stuff or have too much to fit in a particular binder. Our notebooks are basically "subject" notebooks, with subjects being combined into one notebook when convenient.
Theresa has some wonderful pictures of her son's (Superboy's) themed notebooks. Notebooks can be very specific (one area of science -- like Tracy's butterflies example) or specific in a general way (like Superboy's Sailing notebook that went into waterforms and the formations on the ocean floor).
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Thankyou all so much!
Tracy and Janette- I really appreciate your explanations and links. They have been very helpful! I've bookmarked just enough for now, and will peruse them as we go.
I am thinking we will start with DD creating a notebook for religion and history(maybe science also!).
I am sorry I haven't responded in awhile...just a little overwhelmed this time of year. I do appreciate the time you put into your responses.
Warmly,
Christy
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Wow! I just did a search for "notebooking" and came up with this wonderful string. Thank you so much for all the good info, Ladies!
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