My Favorite Helpful Links for Getting Started with Notebooking
I have been getting so many messages asking me for more information about Notebooking. I do plan to follow up with more posts about how we implement Notebooking into our homeschool, but I also wanted to share some links that I have found very helpful. The majority of these links are from NotebookingPages.com because I honestly find the site to be one of the BEST sites for starting with Notebooking, especially if you don’t know anything about Notebooking and are interested in learning what it is all about and why you should even consider using it as a tool in your homeschool.
This is the site that truly inspired me and motivated me to really jump into Notebooking as a daily habit over the past year. Debra is full of wisdom and inspiration!
My Favorite Helpful Links for getting started (and continuing) with Notebooking from NotebookingPages.com
The Doom and Gloom of Homeschooling (Part 1)
3 Homeschooling Myths that Trapped Me (Part 2)
Can any of you relate to believing these lies? (I can…)
Victory over Busywork, Boredom, and Burnout (Part 3)
Tutorial #1 – Change Your Mindset
Tutorial #2 – The Glue that Makes it All Stick Together (Narrations)
Tutorial #3 – Time for Notebooking
This is an AWESOME post that covers questions like, “What is Notebooking?” and also shows a typical day with reading, narration, and notebooking.
Copywork and Notebooking
A great post all about how to implement copywork into Notebooking.
Notebooking with a Structured Writing Plan
Language Arts Notebooks
“Our Story” Video from Debra Reed
I truly hope these links will be as helpful to you as they have been to me.
Blessings.
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4 Comments
Megan Russell
Thank you for this! I just posted about our math journals, which closely resemble notebooking!
Cassandra
I've heard a lot about interactive Math Notebooks… they look like so much work!!! But they do look neat.
serenity
Thanks so much and looking forward to your future posts concerning notebooking. About copywork- what age would you suggest children start? From your experience, will copywork make a young child hate writing? And what should children start with, the alphabet and numbers? And one last question, if you did copywork and AAR 1 at the same time, would it get in the way of the child's ability to read, or will it be 'too much' for the child?
Thanks in advance.
Cassandra
Hi! Hm… these are great questions, and I'm note sure I'm qualified to answer them! What I can do though, is share what has worked for us. Copywork should never make kids 'hate writing'. It is actually really gentle and is given at the appropriate age/amount ratio. Actually, our kids do very little copywork daily (a few sentences), but over time, done every day, it adds up! 🙂 For us, we started simple copywork with numbers and letters (how to form them). We started when the kids showed they were ready/interested. About age 5 ish? It was different for each child… our youngest took longer to be 'ready' for printing but was putting together adult difficulty Lego sets at 5… so… they all have different giftings, eh? We actually do use the words from AAR Level 1 for a 'word book', which is a form or early dictation. The child looks at the word, studies it, you'd already learned to read it (we started at the beginning once we completed the course) and now he is slowly adding them into his 'word' book… I really love Draw Write Now for Copywork… there are also TONS of free copywork printables on Pinterest. Or, simply pick a few easy sentences from books you are reading or poems and voila – copywork. Start slow and easy and work your way up. 🙂