Notebooking Round-up For September

Welcome to the Notebooking Round-up, a list of the latest and greatest notebooking links on the web. It’s back to school time, and there are lots of great notebooking posts out there! I hope you have a few minutes to click, download, and bookmark these fantastic links.

Using Calendars for Copywork Books or Notebooks

All of you frugal homeschool notebookers are going to love this idea. I am already thinking ahead to late January and February when the wall calendars are super cheap. I want to remember to use this fantastic idea of repurposing a calendar as a notebook base.

Notebooking Pages: Now What Do I Do With Them?

Lainie gives us a show and tell about her children’s notebooks. Hint — it involves a trip to Kinkos.

Top 5 Reasons to Use Notebooking Pages in High School

Barb has graduated three homeschool students and is finishing up her last child’s high school education, so her insights are always valuable.

Days of Creation Notebook

This is so clever. (What else would we expect from Amy of Raising Arrows?) She teaches her children about the seven days of Creation using torn paper to make a booklet. This project is suitable for pre-readers and readers alinke since the booklets are wordless books.

Cajun Joie de Vivre

I hope you stocked up on those back to school composition notebooks because these two tutorials by Amy Bayliss are going to make you wish you had!  After I read her posts, I stopped by Target to buy six more 40¢ composition notebooks. You can never have enough notebooks, anyway.

1. Altered Composition Notebooks
2. Professionally Done Altered Composition Notebooks – Book Cover

The Rewards of Notebooking

This article over at The  Homespun Life lists eight great rewards you and your children will find as a result of notebooking.

How to Make a Recycled Book

A very cool tutorial at The Pioneer Woman.

Mystery of History 3 Notebooking Pages

Daisy shares a free printable page to go along with a study of  War of the Roses, Cosimo de’Medici, and Ferdinand, Isabella, & The Spanish Inquisition.

Learning Telephone Numbers

This printable freebie from Maureen at Spell Outloud is for the younger crowd. Practice writing and dialing (actually now we press, don’t we?) the number. This would make an attractive way to post emergency numbers on the refrigerator or memo board, too.

Family Work: Teaching Children Adult Skills

Heidi is teaching her children adult life skills. To organize their studies, she has created some notebooking pages including

• Food Skills Class
• Sewing Project Notes
• Pet Care Checklist

Science Notebooks with Owl Pellets

Freestyle Notebooking

Julie at Butterflies & Barefoot Lasses shares how she rescued a printing problem and proves again that you don’t need fancy notebooking pages to do notebooking.

Writing Notebook Printables

The Crafty Classroom is just overflowing with freebies! It seems that Valerie is working on a large series of free writing resources. Her informational (expository) writing pages are already up with many more in the works.

September 11 Notebooking Pages

If you want to teach your children about the tragedy of September 11, look no farther than Cynce’s post. She generously shares dozens of free printables.

Vocabulary Notebooking Pages

That Resource Site has free printables for vocabulary studies in four color options. These pages use a “draw it, write it” approach to learning.

Important Notice

Lastly, I’d like to share an important link for those of you who make your own notebooking pages. Daisy received an email from Bright Ideas Press about possible copyright violations of their Mystery of History curriculum. The publisher made it clear that they do not like her use of their chapter titles or even the Mystery of History name on her free printables.  In the comments section of that post, you can see some tips for making sure your free printables do not violate the copyrights of curriculum publishers. This is such an important issue that I’ll probably devote a future post to it.