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answers to common questions about homeschool notebooking
answers to common questions about homeschool notebooking
I am generally surprised when I see critics of notebooking. It is such an open-ended method of learning that I can’t imagine why someone would dislike it. It works for all ages, all subjects, and even for reluctant writers. One criticism I see is that notebooking is busywork. Notebooking can be busywork. I will admit […]
See moreA 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 […]
See moreQ: How should I plan a notebook? A: Maybe not at all. I don’t know that you need to plan a notebook. I don’t have this kind of thinking when organizing our homeschool. I don’t have a mental image of what the completed notebook will look like a the end of the year. I just […]
See moreBack 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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