With trying to sell our house and everything, I am thinking of notebooking this year at least until we get settled again. From everything I have seen I should be able to cover all subjects. With a minimum of materials I would like to know what I need for materials. It looks to me as if I just need a three ring binder for each girl and a printer. I have been looking at the stuff on currclick and notebooking nook. Am I at least going in the right direction with this?:?
Check out www.thehomeschoolshop.com - the History Scribe stuff is neat. REally, all you need is: Ring binder Printer Paper (internet connection for investigating more information) Colored pencils I dont use it ALL the time, but when I want a specific notebooking page, etc. I love having it. I bought their full download one time when they had it on sale. They also have science notebooking and a master planner and stuff too. HTH.
I have used history scrib before. We were a bit intimidated at first, but with some tuning made it work for us. I need to check my computer at home I think I still have the downloads.
check out this also hold that thought I have one of the cds and they are great. also google notebooking and you will end up with all kinds of pages and ideas
For my younger kids, I just used a spiral bound notebook (easier to manipulate) and we did everything chronologically so we didn't worry about tabs or "sections" -- ie for American history we start either with explorers or Native Americans and just keep going. They can either draw right onto the notebook paper or we do cut and paste. I just cant' justify the expense of printing all those notebook sheets when a spiral bound notebook or a 3 ring binder with notebook paper can do the same thing - just the child add the title/draws the picture and then adds the info. We made "frames" for pics they drew to cut and paste (or if we did print one out) with construction paper, we used sticker letters for some of the titles of the pages, and used a lot of "lap book" elements as well just to add some fun stuff. We just glued the little flap book or whatever into the notebook. Much cheaper than all that printing.
Next question. We have decided to do dogs for our first study. DD1 wants to do chiuhuas (sp I know), DD2 wants to do German Shepards, and DD4 wants to do security/guard dogs. So we are the same but they will be individual also. I will do a google search for sights as well as checking the library, but I was wondering if any of you had info on any of those breeds?
2littleboys, this site has a pretty good explanation of what notebooking (and lapbooking, which is another popular tool) is about.
The child craft set of books (from world book I think) has a dog book as part of the set. You may see if your library has it or if you can buy it cheap online.
Notebooking is when you use a notebook of some sort and keep all your school work in it ---most do it for a subject, ie history. then organize it chronologically (Native Americans, Early Explorers, Colonists, Revolution) and each topic has maps, biographies, drawings, timelines, even short reports - I include some lapbooking flip books or activites from History Pockets for fun as well. We are using a "sectioned" binder for ds 12 this year for history - maps section, timeline section, reports, biographies, glossary . . . instead. Just a different type of organization --maybe the timelines will make better sense to him. And the growth of the country is easy to asses from one map to the next.
