How to Homeschool using Notebooks

Notebooking is a great way to help your child retain what they learn. It also helps improve your child’s writing, vocabulary and spelling skills. Notebooks are a beautiful way to showcase your what your child is learning and notebooks make a “book” for your child to look back on.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Binder
• page protectors
• printed notebooking pages
• pencil
• coloring materials
• drawing materials

1. Choose a book for your studies. Notebooking can be done with history, geography, science, art, music, Bible, literature and even math. Just choose a good book to start with that covers what you want your child to learn.

2. Print out a notebooking page that goes with the pages that your covered. If you are unable to find a notebooking page that matches your study, then print out a generic page.

3. Have your child write in their own words what they read about on the lines provided. Ask them to use their best handwriting while doing their notebooks.

4. Have them draw a picture of what they learned if there is a blank provided for drawing.

5. Have your child color any pictures that may be on the page. They may even want to add extra decorations to the page to make it prettier or more interesting.

6. After the page is done, slide it into a page protector and put it in a 3- ring binder. Keep doing this for the entire study.

7. Decorate the front of the binder and make sure the subject or study is titled on the front.

Tips & Warnings

• Don’t get overly picky on the notebooking pages and start correcting spelling and grammar. Just make a note of it and then work on it at a different time. The notebook should be a sense of accomplishment and that is hard to be if it is marked up with corrections. It’s better to address the problems separate from the notebook.

Resources

• History Pages
• Science Pages
• Generic Pages
• Lots of Notebooking Pages

[Susanh]

on 5/31/2009 Great tips on notebooking!