By request I am going to start doing homeschooling posts. Usually it will be a SHORT Fun Friday activity...fun recipes for kids, making a EASY solar system, color mixing, etc. For now we will talk about my latest obsession... NOTEBOOKING! (and the crowd goes wild...okay maybe not). My kids have done so much bookwork this year that I decided to set out on a search for new, FUN homeschooling options. That is how I discovered notebooking. It is kind of like scrapbooking for kids, and by the end of the year they have an awesome colorful binder that they will (hopefully) treasure forever...and it will help them (again hopefully) remember all of the stuff they learned. You can use notebooking for any subject. I am starting with science and Bible. You can create your own notebook pages or you can be lazy like me and use already made ones. http://www.notebookingpages.com/ has tons of free pages that you can try, go to the site and click on free resources. All the Bible ones are free and it goes all the way through the Bible with 100's of free downloadable pages from the Old to the New Testament. By the end of our journey through the Bible I hope my kids have a deeper understanding and something they will always reference and remember. Also Apologia has awesome notebooks already spiral bound that go with science textbooks (exploring creation through astrology, exploring creation through botany) check them out at http://apologia.com/. There are tons of resources on line or if you have any questions email me at heather.negrete@yahoo.com. Don't add this to your already full workload, let it take the place of something, and for young kids keep it simple (a picture, collage, or a sentence or two).
Happy Notebooking :)
Here is a pic that has nothing to do with notebooking...just a fun fieldtrip
