Jeannie Fulbright of Apologia suggests:
"You can transform any course into a first class educational experience with notebooking"
Notebooking has indeed transformed our courses. Along with using the notebooking journals from Apologia we also do lapbooking and make our own nature journals.
One of my favorite resources for notebooking is a fun little place called The Notebooking Fairy
My friend Jimmy does a wonderful job of both providing brilliant (and even FREE) notebooking pages as well as explaining and teaching you WHAT to do with them. Most recently we put her super cool Dolphin notebooking pages to work for us. I found them free on her blog of course - under "printables".
Even though I've been homeschooling for quite awhile - I learned a LOT from her ebook -
Notebooking Success is loaded with creative ideas for your notebooking pages. You'll learn HOW to use the technique to it's fullest potential, WHEN to use them to get the most benefit for your learners, and WHY they are great for every subject and most every student - regardless of grade
or age of the child.
You'll find an easy to follow guide that will enrich your homeschool studies. It's not a curriculum or a workbook - but a method of teaching you can use for all ages! Whether you are an experienced homeschooler or just getting started - You're likely to- like me- become a fan of the ebook: Notebooking Success.
»»Free Bonus — Grade Specific Reference Sheets
»»Free Bonus –General Notebooking Pages
»»Free Bonus – 50 Things to Put into a Notebook
*this post contains affiliate links which means that if you purchase I do make a buck or two - however - I do not recommend products that we don't use ourselves and approve -
9 comments:
We do a lot of lapbooking here, too, and would like to get into notebooking more, especially with my older 2. Maybe I'll try some tomorrow since we spent hours at the Nature Center today for a great homeschooling class! :-)
lap books are cool and children always seem to learn a lot using them :)
I love the picture of your son notebooking with some little swimming creature in a container in front of him. :-) Your homeschool looks so creative and fun!
Jimmie's notebooking pages are wonderful, aren't they?
Thanks Mary! They are - that's our new little friend- he's a Japanese Fighting Fish - he's been moved to a bigger home now :) Our homeschool animal collection is ever growing :)
The Notebooking Fairy is a great site for all things notebooking related :) Notebooking really is such a versatile learning tool!
Thanks so much for sharing this with Favorite Resources. Have a great weekend Kelli!
We've been Notebooking, but not in any official way for awhile...I am finding more and more that my girls hate writing summaries and have been thinking they may enjoy notebooking more...I am considering purchasing Jimmie's ebook.
I've wondered about Notebooking as we continue to debate about Homeschooling. Do you still use Notebooking at the Middle School level? Thanks for the How-To, Kelli! Happy Sunday! ☺
We've switched from lapbooking with file folders to placing mini books in a notebook instead. A cross between notebooking and lapbooking! All fun learning though!
Larri, notebooking can be used from Kindergarten to high school :) it's totally adjustable for various ages
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