A reader asked these questions about storing notebooks. 1. Do you keep your daughter’s notebook from previous years, and if so, how do you decide when to discard them? 2. Where do you store all of your notebooks? I already do some notebooking with my children, and I’m a big fan of the old three [...]
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The blog post 50 Things to Put in a Notebook continues to be one of the most popular how to posts here at The Notebooking Fairy. This series offers specific examples of those fifty different things. Fifty Things to Put into a Notebook: Quotations Quotations are fantastic for a notebook because although they are normally short, they hold [...]
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You may know that for our history studies, we take a living books approach, reading quality literature instead of using a textbook. Since early this year, we have been using Heritage History digital eBooks as our history curriculum, first on a Kindle for Ancient Rome, and now on an iPad for the Middle Ages. Besides the foundation [...]
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Every homeschool mom knows the power of the Internet to provide instant, free teaching resources. But those resources are only valuable if you can locate them. The Internet is huge, and finding what you need can be a challenge at times, especially if what you want is a bit obscure or very specific. Today’s notebooking [...]
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Welcome back to the 50 Things to Put in a Notebook Series, based on my popular blog post of the same name. Notebooking is versatile and flexible, so don’t ever feel locked into a certain structure for your homeschool notebooks. Have you ever considered using poems in your notebooks? Fifty Things to Put into a [...]
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Sometimes you come across a product that is so wonderful you just can’t wait to share it! Although I normally focus on freebies here at The Notebooking Fairy, when a product is really worth your money, I don’t hesitate to mention it. I have found one. Don’t worry. I’ve worked it out so that it’s [...]
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Back when I wrote a guest post for Mary at Homegrown Learners about Getting Started with Homeschooling, there were several great comments and questions to address. Here is one: Our most successful notebook pages are for history, but I have a boy who always wants to make his pictures “silly” which I find very distracting [...]
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As an information collector, I love Pinterest. The idea of storing images in tidy categories appeals to me greatly. Of course, I have my own notebooking board with over 1600 followers. But I often come across other notebooking boards to follow. I thought those of you who love Pinterest like me may want to follow [...]
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Do you use notebooking for your nature studies? Most people tend to call nature notebooks nature journals. The idea is the same: you record what you observed on your outdoor excursions or nature walks. If you’ve ever been intimidated by nature journals, you need to read my guest post at The Homeschool Scientist titled The Minimalist Guide to [...]
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Q: How do you handle a reluctant writer in terms of notebooking? A: By changing the medium or reducing words. Whether the reluctance is because of a learning uniqueness or simply because of personality, the tips below should help. Actually, notebooking has a huge advantage over traditional worksheets and tests in that it is extremely [...]
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