Great! It's fun to see their notebooking personality develop.

Start with one area that you think will fit best for your kiddos. Then work up from there!

Our favorite thing to notebook is history. We read and then the children tell what they remember on...

We keep copywork and notebooking separate! Let him practice his handwriting through copywork (no more than 5 minutes per day, really!). For the notebooking you be his hands. Have him tell you...

Hi everyone,

I hope by the quiet on these forums it means your families are all happily notebooking away! At my house we've been notebooking about Charles Dickens and I wrote a post sharing...

Hi everyone!

I thought I would start a thread so we can share what our children are notebooking this week. So far mine are notebooking about Cleopatra while we read the Diane Stanley book of...

I'm counting down . . .10...9...8...well, you get the idea. I can't wait to see how Notebooking Pages does it's yearly sale!

Anyone else hoping to buy something during the sale???

Yes, it made a big difference in how much notebooking we actually do once I got a bunch printed out to pick from!

I have seven children as well (10 down to 3 mos). What we do is read something fascinating, a great story with interesting people who did interesting things. History works well, a story about a...

With 7 children I keep it simple. I have a folder of blank notebooking pages printed out. Each child chooses a page and writes/illustrates. That's it. No bits of paper, no glue, no real mess. We...

What can you replace in your regular school work with notebooking? That's the question I would ask myself. For example, in history I would read to my children and have them notebook about it (no...

My 5th grader is a daughter and she's a generally reluctant writer. What I've discovered is she writes more if a subject interests her. You can see several of my 5th grader's pages in our picture...

We just bind each year's pages into it's own little book and consider them volumes in a set. ;)

I just wrote a series on Narration and Notebooking on my blog (part 1, part 2, and part 3). What I would do is read part of the book and ask for a narration or notebook page, then do the rest of the...

Hmm, great question! I try to encourage my children to choose a page with an appropriate number of lines for their age, then encourage them to use the whole page. Does it always happen? No. For...

I had to chuckle, I've got 5 boys and 2 girls so far and it is a balance finding books that appeal to them all, though I have been surprised sometimes.

I did something similar. I printed a selection and put them in a folder. Each time a child needs a notebooking page they simply flip through the folder and grab one to use. As the folder runs out...

We're not using a spine, but we do try to cover topics in one time period before moving to a new time period. For example, right now we're working through renaissance/reformation period with books...

We really enjoy notebooking history. Sometimes we notebook science or a literature book we're reading. For your boys - is there something they are passionate about? Have them start there!

Heather, I think the 'traditional' thought for me it notebooking involves writing and illustrating BUT I always say make it work for your child! We've done lapbooking in the past (loved that too),...

We do a lot together currently, but have also done separate topics in the past. Right now I'll read something to all the children and they then can notebook what caught their interest from the...

Mara,

We just use one-sided paper, though if you spent a bit more you could buy thicker paper and print on both sides without ink showing through.

What I've done is just print an entire...

We use containers to hold coloring/drawing things, but if you just want something to keep them in a general area while working at the table a cookie sheet with sides to keep them from rolling off is...

Country Gal - I have a whole post about it a few years back here. Be sure to read the comments as I explain more clearly how many pages coil holds. The site I get coil from is MyBinding.com, the...

We use a ProClick binder with either the Proclick spines (they snap open and shut and come in very small to large sizes) or spiral coil (also in all sizes). It is easy enough my children can use it!

Two ideas:

Let him type it .

Write it yourself - have him narrate out loud and you write his words down exactly. That's what I do with my grade 3 and under kids. Then they illustrate it or...