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[mommy25]

your ideas for grades 1-4 notebook pages. SWB says to have a box full of stickers/paper/glitter etc. to bring out for notebook time. Please share what it's like creating notebook pages at your house? Any creative ideas? Thanks!

[Trivium Academy]

For SOTW 1 & 2 we used History Scribe (http://www.historyscribe.com) notebooking pages but we switched to Tapestry of Grace in 2nd grade and our philosophy changed as well to a more Charlotte Mason approach but we do hands-on activities more now like building dioramas and making posters. I love Scholastic's Teaching books likes Hands-On History and Interactive 3D Maps. I put history in the context it needs to be in our homeschool, a gravy subject and use it as a vehicle to read wonderful books and learn geography, esp. in the grammar stage.

[Karen in CO]

I am not terribly creative, but I love page protectors. My dd is currently in second grade, and we are doing copywork and narrations. So she narrates to me. I write one or two sentences for her on a piece of paper and she copies it (or does dictation or some days just writes it). Some Days she draws. She isn't much for stickers, but loves to illustrate. When she is done, I make a note card with information about date and subject or whatever and slide both into a page protector.

She also loves model magic. She will make a miniature scene with the white stuff and paint it. Then I name the note card, take a picture and put it in a page protector in the binder.

[Lovedtodeath]

I thought that notebooking was making a scrapbook... (http://www.winterpromise-forum.com/showthread.php?t=5707)

Here is a thread with some samples

[Colleen in NS]

your ideas for grades 1-4 notebook pages. SWB says to have a box full of stickers/paper/glitter etc. to bring out for notebook time. Please share what it's like creating notebook pages at your house? Any creative ideas? Thanks!

We started off this way, but my son is the oldest, and he never liked the glitter/sticker part, so he illustrated his narrations. DD liked the glue/paper/glitter part for a few months, but quickly got bored with it, too, so she illustrates now. They both like to draw, so this works. I think decorating the narrations is meant to be a fun *extra* activity, after the writing/thinking part is done. But go for it, if it's something your kids love! Have plenty of coloured paper on hand and glue sticks and markers, whatever their hearts desire!