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Now please forgive me Cay, if this already well explained in your book, if it is, tell me to wait, that will be ok - but I do remember Elizabeth in her lovely write up about Mosaic, saying how notebooking is/can be used with it and I suppose that would include lapbooking?
If you highly encourage it, what would be practical applications of the two - like how often? actually I have so many little questions, can you or anyone put forward ideas in general? (I am waiting for the Ultimate Lapbook Handbook and Mosaic from Anna in Australia)
I imagine I will be starting them simultaneously by the looks of it.
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Dear, dear Anne!
Boy, do I feel like a heel. 
How on earth did I miss your question??? I'm so sorry.
I really push the family to "enshrine any copy work, art projects, or narrated essays" into a Liturgical Year Notebook. The whole idea behind lapbooking and notebooking is to collect everything you do (all those mosaic tiles) and put them into an attractive surrounding (a mosaic picture, so to speak).
I found the overall notebook worked best for us because we could add to it year after year.
But, what works for us might not work for another family.
We made a rosary lapbook, a 7 Sacraments lapbook, and a Papal Notebook as well as a Saint notebook separately. These are all inserted into Our Liturgical Year Binder. I have plans for a Marian Apparition lapbook this year.
I think the First Communion Notebook and Confirmation Notebook are excellent because these sacraments really stand alone and deserve more space.
The Liturgical Year Notebook works well because sometimes you'll cover a couple of saints and not get back to them for a while. If you're making a separate saint lapbook or notebook, you feel discouraged that you didn't complete the project. By inserting them into the Liturgical Year Notebook, you have nothing to feel guilty about. You simply pick-up where you left off.
As we cover a saint, we inserted him/her into his liturgical position in the main notebook. Once we had enough, we put our papers into a separate notebook and added the saint holy cards into a plastic card collector insert in the front. This smaller notebook still ends up inserted into our main binder.
Does this answer some of your questions?
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Thanks Cay - I'm waiting for my order too and though I wouldn't have known enough to ask the question, I'm tickled that Anne did. Maybe I can follow along some of you more experienced once I get my book. I ordered mine late - trying to budget and spread out the expense but am looking forward to my copy any day now!
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Thank you Cay, don't worry, it was timely!! ~ Just as I read this post today, a book, exclusively on notebooking by Cindy Rushton came in the mail in the same hour(kindly lent to me by Erin.)
Things are finally clicking with notebooking/lapbooking in general as I read through your "Literature Alive" book.
Thank you for what you have mentioned on this post, very helpful.
I am now just patiently awaiting the shipment of Mosaics to Australia (have I mentioned that before?  )
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All these posts have helped me better understand to concept of a Liturgical notebook...thanks!
My question has to do with how the notebook will be sectioned out. Why was it recommended to section out the book into Advent, Christmas, Easter, Mary, Saints etc. rather than by time, like Months or Chronological Dates?
I am sure the answer is that you can do it anyway that works for your family, but since this will be my first notebook/lap book I don’t want to get into it and realize that it would have been better another way.
Thanks for everyone’s help…I am getting a little over whelmed right now!
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Betsy wrote:
| My question has to do with how the notebook will be sectioned out. Why was it recommended to section out the book into Advent, Christmas, Easter, Mary, Saints etc. rather than by time, like Months or Chronological Dates? |
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Well, dear, you're right about it working for each family differently. That is true.
When I began Catholic Mosaic last year, the children and I were reading the books at random. We'd find some at the library and read them and then I would decide where they fit into the calendar year. Then when I was working with Margot for publishing it, she had all these great books that she sent me to read and discuss with the children. Some of the dates were changed as we saw fit. And there are still many gaps in the first Mosaic. You're looking at 52 featured books. I haven't even counted all of them on the booklist.
Really there's no end to this... It goes on and on with each passing year. And if we cover different books each year, your child(ren) will be fully engulfed in the liturgical year.
I can guarantee you that no CCD class offers so thorough a study.
So...anyway...the children and I read and discussed, did a few crafts, did a few paper projects, did a few coloring sheets and narration and began notebooking our pages. I wanted the children to understand the liturgical year as it falls just like they do the regular calendar.
Our regularly calendar as we know it falls Jan.-Dec. Our children learn early(through projects, crafts, reading, television program, and holiday celebrations) that the secular year is broken into dates that we all look forward to (I've used my family's b-days for example):
New Years,
Valentine's Day,
Mardi Gras,
Garrett's b-day,
St. Patrick's Day,
Springtime,
Mom's b-day,
Easter,
Kayleigh's b-day,
Summertime,
Daddy's b-day
4th of July,
School begins,
Autumntime,
Corey's b-day,
Chelsea's b-day,
Halloween,
Thanksgiving,
Annie's b-day,
Wintertime,
Christmas
New Year's Eve
Our children learn these days follow a yearly pattern that never changes, without us having to "teach" them. These dates are observed every year because the stores and the schools and the community are observing them as well.
In the Catholic faith, the dates of:
Advent
Epiphany
Lent
Easter Triduum
Saint Feast Days (in place of b-days)
Honoring Mary in May
Days of Obligation
And the list continues...
are not observed by those outside our churches. And most families attend Mass on Sunday and CCD on a weekday. The celebration/observance is mentioned at Mass or in CCD class and that is the only exposure the children get.  If we don't observe these dates in the home with our children then they are basically lost to the next generation.
Mosaic can definitely be used Jan.-Dec. We laid out CM in that framework to make it easier for families to just go to whichever month they were in. You might wish to set up your Liturgical Notebook that way so as to insert your activity sheets as they are done each month.
No problem there at all. The religious observances are often combined with a secular celebration. Like here in Louisiana:
Twelth Night (lots of parties and celebrations going on in the area) = Epiphany (only noted in the Church leading up to Epiphany Sunday)
The drawback is this example: Advent sometimes falls both at the end of Nov. into Dec. Do you separate all your Advent pages and books into two months? or keep them together under one section labeled Advent?
Same thing with Lent.
We have a section labeled Saints. Whenever we do an activity sheet and read a book on a certain saint and narration, we put those sheets in that section but we put the feast day at the top of the page and place them in order Jan.-Dec.
Does this make sense? I hope it's not too rambling. I've been gone all day and that makes me feel like I'm not explaining myself very well.
Let me know if you need clarifying.
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That makes so much sense, Cay. I just have a nebulous idea of what the notebook will look like, but you have given me enough to help solidfy how we're going to do it. Thank you.
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Cay,
Thanks so much for your response. I think I was envisioning what you talked about but just getting hung up on the semantics! Thanks again!
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