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"No other learning tool has more purity of approach than a blank notebook.  Like the artist's canvas, it has the creative potential of becoming anything the author wishes to portray.  Its natural form makes it adaptable to any task or learning situation.  The content, rather than being dictated by a pre-set curriculum, is determined by the family, meeting their unique and individual needs ." 

Marilyn Howshall,  Wisdom's Way of Learning

Tips:

*I have my younger children write their name for writing practice. As they get older, we skip the name writing.

*I  have my younger children write the subject so that they can learn to spell these words.  For older children, I just skip it for if they write in their English notebook, they know that the subject is English.

* I  have my younger children write the long form of the date (and short as they get a little older) as writing practice and to learn how to spell the months. I let the older children write the short date.

*I have my older children write a table of contents for Islamic Studies, History, subjects like these--not usually Math or English. ( We leave enough blanks pages and fill it in as we go along)

Islamic Studies

For the older children that know Arabic, they usually write the whole entry (or most of it) in Arabic.

Date: (long or short form)* (Name)* (Subject)* Topic/Lesson Title:   Question:   Answer:   Proof:   Any related written activities or "homework" goes here.

 

Math

 

Date: (long or short form)* (Name)* (Subject)* Topic (if we use a textbook, they copy the lesson heading) Assignment:   work goes here. I try to encourage them to either fold the paper in columns or mark off columns with a ruler to make the work look neater. I try to specify a certain number of problems (around 3-4--depends on the type of work) to be written across the width of the page so that work isn't cluttered and hard to read.  Answers are boxed.

 

English (for more formal Grammar lessons)

 

Date: (long or short form)* (Name)* (Subject)* Topic: (if we use a textbook, they copy the lesson heading) Assignment:   Rule: Example:   work goes here.

 

History

 

Date: (long or short form)* (Name)* (Subject)* Topic:   notes/work goes here.

 

Creative Notebooking - Other Forms/Formats of Notebooks/Notebooking

There are also more creative methods of recording a student's work.

Some people do "notebooking," scrapbooking, or make "lapbooks."

 

Electronic notebooks are great for sharing work

 with distant family and friends.

There are many resources (sites, egroups) on the internet with ideas for making electronic notebooks.

 

I don't really get too much past the traditional formats I mentioned above, however I do have my older children do electronic notebooks from time to time.

 

See below for some examples of our electronic notebooks.

 

Using a Microsoft newsletter template, we came up with a "creative" way to summarize what was learned in science:

 

Sometimes I just take a unit that I have written and add space within the unit for them to record their work"

This is a sample from our science respiratory unit:

Sometimes we make posters to show what we have learned:

Here are a few from our history studies:

and this is one from Islamic Studies by my oldest daughter:

 

Notebook/Notebooking Links

Notebooking Tips and Tricks

Notebooking.org

Fueling the Fire with Notebooks 

Notebooking

Jeannie Fulbright - Notebooking

Yahoo Groups: Notebooking 

Article on Notebooking

Lapbooks

To get an idea of what lapbooks can look like: www.handsofachild.com (commercial site)
 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lapbooking

Lots of ideas for lapbooks and resources for making lapbooks; how they are used