A blog reader and online friend Amy Uptain sent me a request for a notebooking page by email. She said I have a suggestion for a notebooking page. My 2nd grader read Mary Poppins, and instead of having her do a more traditional book report, I had her contrast the book with the movie. I actually just had [...]
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Having a structure for brainstorming can be helpful. One such scaffold is the alphabet — A to Z. A children’s class I teach at church was going to list ways to pray for people from A to Z, so I devised this printable graphic organizer for the task. Of course, you can use it for [...]
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I am always amazed at how simple games make homeschool so much more fun. I have taken “boring” review questions or tough math problems and presented them in the format of a card game or a board game and received praises for being the coolest mom ever. Games really work. If you need a nudge, [...]
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If you would like to add a little variety to your notebooks, how about a booklet format? This simple one page printable can be folded into a booklet which can be used for summarizing, writing your own stories, or taking notes. Note: Be sure to print the file front/back so that it will become a booklet when [...]
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Today’s free notebooking printables are one page timelines which are perfect for arranging facts about a person’s life in chronological order listing events during a period of history outlining the plot of a work of literature brainstorming a narrative (for creative writing) There is a six event page and an eight event page plus [...]
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These free printable notebooking pages are suitable for writing about any person in your history studies. Actually, these pages will work for any person at all, famous or not. Your child could even use these for “About Me” notebooking pages or to record an interview. In language arts, these biography pages could be used for [...]
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This freebie is perfect for the younger notebookers in your homeschool. There are two pages — one for a man and another for a woman. The person in the center is left very generic so that you can embellish as desired with facial features and clothing. Four simple speech balloons surround the figure, giving your [...]
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My husband accuses me of turning everything into a lesson. Okay, I admit it. I do. But it seems to me if you’re going to drive to a museum and pay for admission, you may as well milk it for all the educational value you can. Tack on some written learning activities, and count it [...]
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Quotations make for great notebooking material. I included them on my list of Fifty Things to Put in a Notebook for good reason. You can use them for multiple learning tasks all at the same time. handwriting practice copywork discussions of deep ideas new vocabulary Today’s free notebooking pages are especially designed for quotations from [...]
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These notebooking pages were inspired by scrapbooking layouts. They have a modern, abstract feel to them and are in landscape orientation. As general purpose notebooking pages, they can be used for anything you desire. And the ones without lines could even revert back to portrait orientation very easily. Use the shapes for headings, tidbits, quotations, [...]
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