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Becky Parker
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Posted: Feb 03 2012 at 11:27am \| IP Logged

Well, even though I can't get my new notebooking pages to print, I'm still determined to make a go of the whole notebooking thing with my kids. If you use notebooking how do you plan for it? Some of you probably just say "that looks like a great topic to notebook" as you go, but being a bit "type A" I just can't do it that way. Anybody who plans for notebooking care to share their process? Do you require certain notebook pages per subject? per week?

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Posted: Feb 04 2012 at 5:16am \| IP Logged

Becky

Last year I subscribed to the notebooking pages treasury and began expecting notebooking pages for alot of my dc's subjects; Faith, Dictation, Science, Geography and History.

Well they have a choice either answer questions if their book has such or pick a notebook page. Notebook page may include a picture printed from the internet to look pretty or may not. Then they are to write at least a notebook page per topic, so for all subjects above at least one notebook page a week, dictation is two.

This year I got smarter, I printed of a number of pages from the treasury and hole punched and have behind dividers in a 2 ring binder for them to just grab out, once a week/fortnight I print more pages to replenish. Saves having to leave another child mid lesson to go and print of a history sheet etc.

Then there are occasions I haven't planned, Thursday dd10 had a meltdown no longer wants to do our planned history, conversation later all solved, no problem, dd is keen to read living books on American history. I'm happy she just has to notebook each book she reads, an hour later she has read an easy bio on Benjamin Franklin and written a biography.

After a tip from Harmony Mom, I print the contents page and have in my binder. I really recommend reading all of Barb's notebooking posts. Also some good resources. We're loving notebooking, well the ds' don't always

but they are proud looking back.

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Becky Parker
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Posted: Feb 04 2012 at 7:28am \| IP Logged

Thanks Erin!

This is similar to something I had envisioned.

Erin wrote:

This year I got smarter, I printed of a number of pages from the treasury and hole punched and have behind dividers in a 2 ring binder for them to just grab out, once a week/fortnight I print more pages to replenish. Saves having to leave another child mid lesson to go and print of a history sheet etc.

I was thinking about using a small sort of half file box I have though. I would put several file folders in there with various notebooking pages that I had printed. After reading this post I am also thinking it would be nice to have a storage system for various art supplies. It would keep them within reach so the kids could decorate their pages or color the pictures they have drawn.

It sounds like you don't have a specific time for the kids to "do notebooking". I think this would work best for my older two. My younger ds isn't as independent though so it will be up to me to make sure we get it done.

I'll be sure to check the links you posted.

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Posted: March 31 2012 at 8:51pm \| IP Logged

After we read, or they read something, we do a narration page/notebook page.

We do it 3 ways:
-I have a stash of preprinted generic pages printed out in a manilla folder (different styles to choose from, but able to be used with any subject).
-I will print some off after we read something together that I have specific pages for (namely History or Science, where it will have a title, and maybe a picture on it - basically topic specific). Then we work on them (me writing for the younger ones as they dictate).
-I keyboard their narration and plop a box on it in Word or Pages for them to put their illustration in.

We do a page for each topic covered in History, Science, or Literature, as a rule (so that would be at least once a week per child per subject). Then we do ones for whatever other topics we might be studying (composers, catechism, etc.), as well as an occasional interest based page.

Now I just need to get better about getting them to file them in their binders....

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