What is Notebooking?
Notebooking is when your child writes and/or draws about what he is learning and compiles these notes in a some sort of notebook or binder.
The notebook becomes his educational scrapbook containing narrations, notes, essays, reviews, reports, copywork, lists, journal entries, sketches, artwork, photographs, illustrations, coloring pages, diagrams, sketches, maps, timelines, and more.
Instead of filling in the blanks of a worksheet to test what your child knows, notebooking frees him to SHOW and TELL what he’s learned, what he found interesting, and to do so using his own choice of words and imagery without fear of giving the wrong answers.
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Notebooking Tips & FAQs
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 ...
How much notebooking do you do each day in your homeschool?
We use notebooking to capture what we are learning and to practice our writing skills. Notebooking begins with engaging books, oral narration, and open-ended Socratic discussion. After all, you must have something to write before you can put pen (or ...
Can we use Notebooking for Math?
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Homeschooling with Copywork
What is Copywork? Copywork is copying a piece of well-written work, from any variety of sources, onto paper or into a notebook ...
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 ...
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! ...
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?" ...
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 ...
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 to focus on the paper ...
