I've been looking into lapbooking or notebooking and I'm thinking of using it to supplement the SOS world history curricukum we are going to use this year. Any suggestions? I only have the vaguest idea of how it works. I have found a lot of templates online, but I'm feeling clueless.
Have you seen this website: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Lapbooks_at_HSS.php ? I just print out the little books, do a few activities at a time with the kids, and then paste them any which way into a file folder. There's really no right or wrong way. To make the folder, I open it up and then fold in both sides so they meet in the middle. That website gives pretty good instructions and pictures on how to put things together. I've made a lot of lapbooks from there.
Yes! I did see that website. Thanks for the 'no right or wrong way' comment. Lapbooking is honestly way out of my comfort zone when it comes to schooling, because I'm still stuck on a PS mentality (it stinks, I know). So I'm trying to break out of that mold, and I figured this would be a good way to start. I want DS to have more fun this year, so hopefully this works.
We did a lot of lapbooks the first year and now we have gone to more notebooking because you can include both the mini books and notebooking pages for each subject. Love it
We've always notebooked for our history, even before I'd heard about notebooking. I had no idea it was a real thing! lol I agree, there is no real right or wrong way. It is really up to you. For our history, we sort of combined our version of a Charlotte Mason Book of Centuries with what we wanted to do for history, which was a research-rich timeline "scrapbook" of historical events, separated by geographic region in some cases.
