How Much Notebooking Should We Do in Our Homeschool?
If youโve ever wondered, โHow much notebooking should we actually do each day?โ โ youโre not alone! This was one of my big questions when we first started. Thereโs no magic number of pages or minutes to hit each day. I aim for my children to produce something after most lessons โ whether itโs a ...
Notebooking with a Structured Writing Plan
It is less stressful for most kids to talk about a topic than to write about it. When beginning notebooking, I ask the kids for immediate oral narrations rather than a written summary or report ...
Our Language Arts Notebook
Notebooking topical studies like history, science, Bible, & even literature are easy to do. I get asked many times, "How do you notebook language arts?" ...
What Do We Write and How Much?
Does writing have this effect on any of your children? As soon as you tell them to open their notebook, it begins. Their eyes bounce around like the ball in a pinball machine. It's impossible ...
How to Do Copywork in Your Homeschool
What is Copywork? Copywork is copying a piece of well-written work, from any variety of sources, onto paper or into a notebook ...
How to use the ProClick Binding Machine to bind your own notebooks
You can create your own sketchbook, planner, journal, or other type of notebook. You can also snip the spines to make smaller size notebooks like my kids' quiet time journals pictured below ...
How to do notebooking with younger children?
I do not start formal notebooking until my children are proficient with 3 skills. By "formal notebooking" I mean creating notebooks for specific subjects/studies that include written narrations, reports, summaries, etc ...
Can we use Notebooking for Math?
I had my annual eye doctor appointment last week. I wear glasses with special lenses to address a minor astigmatism, double-vision, and the ever-persistent presbyopia (aka I'm over 40 and can't see the fine print ...
Your First Notebooking Experience
Please do not wait until you think you have everything figured out and you think you have all the right supplies to start implementing notebooking. Make the time and dig in with your kids! ...
