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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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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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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Today’s question and answer post is based on a question from a reader. She asks which subjects notebooking is most beneficial for. That’s a great question because it means that mom is thinking strategically about how notebooking is going to help her homeschooled child learn. Learning is the purpose for notebooking. If you find that [...]
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Today’s post is inspired by a comment on my lens Science Notebooking: Q: Question Hi, I just came across your site and LOVE it! I have been doing notebooks for years and I appreciate your freebies and ideas! My problem right now is this…I love to use a 3 ring binder but the darn pages rip and [...]
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Today’s Q & A post offers something totally new — a video! Yes, the Notebooking Fairy is now vlogging. (The basic information, in text format, is below for those of you who prefer to read rather than watch.) Q: When using notebooking, how many binders should each child have? Do you combine all the year’s [...]
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Nicole of Life is Bunt sent me an email with a great topic to discuss here at The Notebooking Fairy. Thanks, Nicole! Q: How do you use notebooking in math? I am living in Belgium and I am homeschooling my 3rd grader. I just read your ebook Notebooking Success and want to thank you. It’s [...]
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This post is inspired by a few things I have seen online about lapbooks and notebooks. One is this discussion at Homeschool Share forum about what age to stop making lapbooks. Another is comments at Valerie’s review of Notebooking Success eBook . One reader asked how lapbooking and notebooking were different. Another reader asked about [...]
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I received an email from Melissa that reflects a common concern for notebookers. Q: Question I just started incorporating notebooking into our homeschool right before our Christmas break. When I read what my children (ages 14, 11, 9, & 7) write, I often encounter spelling and grammar errors. On a writing assignment, I would correct those, [...]
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Tanya asked a fantastic question in a blog comment that I decided to answer as a blog post. Q: Question “About how much time do you devote to notebooking (especially if you’re starting out with almost 11, 9 and 6 year olds)? It can take us the better part of a school day, and that [...]
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