Notebooking Round-up for August

You have landed on the monthly Notebooking Round-up here at The Notebooking Fairy. Welcome!

All month long I collect the best notebooking links and save them for the first Friday of the new month in a post I call a round-up. You can see all of the round-ups here. I search for posts with photos examples, free printable pages, and how to videos. If it deals with notebooking, it is likely to end up here in the Notebooking Round-up.

How Tos

How to Use Notebooking at All Levels is my guest post at Carlie’s blog So You Call Yourself a Homeschooler.

Creative Writing for Reluctant Writers is from Jamie’s summer unschooling series. I love her ideas, many of which incorporate language arts notebooking.

Valerie shows off her new binding machine and explains how to use it. I have a couple of different machines, and my daughter loves using them to create her own notebooks.

This Traveling Family Journal is a personal adaptation of notebooking. It’s a great way for the kids to pass the time while riding. Later, the whole family can reminisce over the journal.

Barb wrote a tutorial for making a wax paper pouch for your nature journal. This is a great idea!

Tristan uses a lot of notebooking. In this post about how she uses it with her first and second grader, you get to see real life examples of notebooking in the younger years. She is obviously getting fantastic results from the notebooking method. The photos make it obvious.

Heather shares the Top Ten Reasons She Loves Notebooking.

Printables

• Subject area notebook covers from Crafty Classroom.
• Math fact family triangles for living math from This Reading Mama.
• US Geography Printables at Noor Janan blog. There are no thumbnails, so you have to poke around a bit to find what is there, but the 50 States notebooking pages are very nicely done.
• Francis Scott Key printables, especially for younger children by Mama Learning.

My business partner, Amy is a sci fi buff like me! At her post Homeschooling with Star Trek , she shares free Star Trek printables and proves that anything can be the topic of a homeschool unit study

Melissa shares some math notebooking pages called anchor charts. You can find a combination of  examples and printables on her math notebooking board at Pinterest.

Barb, Harmony Art Mom is always sharing freebies. Here are four different nature and artist study printables:

• Van Gogh printable page
• Paintings that Tell a Story
• Pond Study
• Tree Study

Portfolios

Beth at Living Life Intentionally shares some free printables for an end of the year portfolio.

In July I “met” online Bethany LeBedz, a homeschool mom and writer. I first encountered her on this post about portfolios at The Heart of the Matter.

I bought her eBook Demystifying Homeschool Portfolios and thought it was a good overview of that approach to notebooking.

Bethany is kind enough to offer my readers a discount of $2.50, making her eBook only $2.50 from August 3-10. (No coupon code needed.)  On Bethany’s website, look for the eBooks tab at the top.

Notebooking for Mom

If you would like a homeschool planner that also includes organizational pages for a writer or blogger, you need this freebie from House of the Rising Sons.

Cindy West is getting both of her older children and herself organized through the use of notebooks. See how she does it at Weekly Lesson Notebooks.

Donna confesses her notebook addiction and shares a photo for proof. Yep, she’s got it!

This Homeschool High School Planner by Joy Miller is beautiful and functional. Don’t miss it if you have a high schooler.

Don’t miss the ten day Back-2-School Sale at Notebooking Pages

Credits: thanks to Benimoto for the great round up photo