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JennGM
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I'm having a hard time visualizing when someone mentions making a notebook, like Catechism Notebooks, First Communion Notebooks, Blessed Mother Notebooks, Easter Vigil Notebooks, Confirmation Notebooks, etc. (And these are just the religion examples  )
Binders? insert pages as you go along? With plastic protectors?
Do you type up some information? Do your children write it all from scratch and decorate it? What different approaches do you do to "add them to the notebook"?
These are to learn, or marking learning that's been done? For example, add questions they have memorized into the binder as they are learned, or add a sheet at a time to learn, and then add next set after these are learned.
Is the notebook to be looked over again and again, or a "finalized" project, to be shelved?
For younger children who aren't proficient in art or writing, what helps do you do?
Don't feel like you have to answer all the questions; I would just love some descriptions in your home.
I know for me I couldn't do a spiral bound or bound notebook, as I need flow and room for rearrangement, mistakes, and additions.
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Too tired to type up a whole load right now Jenn - but please come and visit  - we have a whole range of notebooks from binders to postbound scrapbooks. (maybe then I can actually GIVE you your thank you card which is still in a pile on top of my piano...sigh..
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Jenn, I've done different things different years. I've done one binder with dividers and typed all narrations on the computer they colored and we stuck them in the appropriate spot.
We don't look at it over and over again. Occasionally. So no plastic protectors.
We've also done blank books.
We've also done those black composition notebooks with spaces for pictures on top. One for religion, one for lit narrations, one for language arts. (We fail at doing history every year... I always think -- next year we'll do a timeline notebook)...
Currently we're doing a combination of both for different subjects and a scrapbook for a few permanent things.
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For the most part we do binders with page protectors. My kids do look at them again and again. (They get that from their mom who LOVES looking at photo albums of her growing up years )
I have typed up information for them, and they have found things on their own. Copywork and narrations and illustrations are a big part of their books.
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Somewhere on the web are Elizabeth's FHC book notes where she lists the exact topic she taught and then what they did for the page. That was the first time I finally started to understand notebooking. I can be kind of slow about such things, and often need a visual first.
Last year, we did an Alphabet Path notebook. Each letter had the colored fairy from the Dover book, an attempt at rendering the saint, trying to copy the picture in Alphabet of Catholic saints, children over about 6 or 7 had a narration on the saint. Usually these were dictated orally/typed by me. If we did something like make cookies or apple pie, then we would take pictures and create a page with them, scrapbook style. For A we studied apple blossoms, so the girls had water color attempts at an apple blossom and the parts were labeled. Each child's labeling was matched to their age and ability. Older children also had narrations (again, dictated/typed) on the musician or poet for that letter (we rotated back and forth). We tried to incorporate a page on our state using the A page in those Sleeping Bear Press state books. Sometimes we had narrations/illustrations of fairy tales for that letter as well. And somewhere along the A pages, we also incorporated a list of every book or chapter we read related to letter A, often along with a list of things like "Five Facts about Apple Trees". This page would have the facts typed in several smaller sections and then the rest of the page would be decorated with apple stickers or something like that.
Now, to be fair, we only made it to Letter G. It was a tough year. But what we had made a very nice notebook.
The thing is, a notebook can be whatever you want it to be. What I have learned from watching and reading at Serendipity though is that the artistic component is important and so are the supplies. Doing all this stuff with crayola crayons just isn't the same.
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Did you know there is a difference between notebooking and lapbooking? http://www.squidoo.com/groups/NotebooksNLapbooks
I thought it was all the same thing until I found this site earlier this week
I spent yesterday reorganising the childrens work that we are going to make 'notebooks' from. They were all in their own scrapbooks. They are now all in the same 3 ring binder. Everything is in plastic sleeves. Each different section has its own plastic sleeve divider in which I have put a cover page for that subject. Each subject page includes the subject title, child's name and school level.
This year we are notebooking the following:
Nature study, Birds of Australia, Science, World history, World geography, Australian history and geography, and First Holy Communion.
For us notebooking is me asking for a narration which I type into Word.(My eldest I do a mix of typing it for her and getting her to write it herself) I print it, make a box for drawing pictures in using a scrapbooking stencil, they draw their pictures, glue on other pictures or decorations as required.
At the end of the school year I will take each subject out of the plastic sleeves and bind it.
I'm interested in using a little bit of lapbooking in our notebooking, but only a little. I find making lots of little fold out things too much for us to do lots of.
For the homemaking journal my dd is doing we are making our notebooking a little more 'scrapbookish'.
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Notebooking Pages Website and Notebooking Exhibithelped me get ahold of the details of notebooking.
And, the top left section has some more "beginning" information with samples that are helpful.
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I am new to notebooking and have learned a lot about it from Cindy Rushton (www.cindyrushton.com).
So, far my kids are really liking it and it's not as complicated as I thought it was.
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