Notebook question...

[Jennefer@SSA]

How do you keep your dc's notebook(s)? Last year I filed away his work weekly into separate notbooks: History, Math, Science, Spanish, Language, Spelling...I have really enjoyed keeping his work this way because everything stays organized and in order. At the end of the year, I take the work out of each notebook clip it together and pack it away.

What I am wondering is if there is any benefit from having your children do the filing? Would my ds7 gain more satisfaction by doing this himself? Right now I do every bit of it and he really has no part. I am not even sure if he realizes what I am doing when he sees me sticking his papers into these notebooks. :)

Just wondering what works for others out there!

[Alana in Canada]

I did not make my kids put their papers into their binders when they were seven--so guess who still does it?

NOW would not be too late.

(Am I feeling grumpy about this, or what?) :tongue_smilie:

[Chris in VA]

My dd8 used the 3 hole punch and put her own pages in her history notebook. That's the only one we really kept consistently, unless you count putting the Saxon worksheets into a binder (which we did, just so I could keep track of her progress--she also liked to look over her work and see her old timed tests, particularly).

I want to take her history from 1st and 2nd grade and put it in one binder--it'll have to be a big one!

[Cadam]

I put them in weekly while I am reviewing and grading their work. I may change it in the future but it is working this year.

[TwinMominTX]

of having the kids do it immediately after finishing the task.

For example...

When we start language arts I ask them to pull out the LA notebook and have it on the table at the ready. I give them a sheet of paper for them to use for their spelling test. After we're done and it is graded I then have them immediately file it at the end of the spelling section.

Most of the time the items I give them are already 3-hole punched since they used to reside in my own planning notebook. If not, I supervise the punching of holes as this seems to be somewhat difficult. My girls enjoy flipping through the notebooks to see what they've done.

[wagnfun]

How do you keep your dc's notebook(s)? Last year I filed away his work weekly into separate notbooks: History, Math, Science, Spanish, Language, Spelling...I have really enjoyed keeping his work this way because everything stays organized and in order. At the end of the year, I take the work out of each notebook clip it together and pack it away.

What I am wondering is if there is any benefit from having your children do the filing? Would my ds7 gain more satisfaction by doing this himself?


Its half & half here. Math & English, I do it for the kids after I grade it. With history & science the kids actually like seeing their binders becoming books and tend to look through them now & then when filing new stuff.

[Jennefer@SSA]

I think I am going to try and be much more diligent this year about him having a part in keeping his notebooks in order and filing papers into them. I think he will gain a lot from seeing all the work he has done - of course representing all he's learned (hopefully anyway! :D)