Notebooking!

I am a big fan of notebooking.  We haven't done a whole lot yet since my children are still young, but what we have done we LOVE.  There is something so magical about looking back on the year and having a whole done up notebook to show for it!  Right now for my kindergartener we didn't think she was ready for our CC notebook so for her, we are doing the sight word interactive notebook which she is in love with. here it is at the TPT store  If you want to try before you buy here is her freebie.

Now for my oldest, she wasn't quite ready for a real notebook, since her sentence structure isn't the greatest- so I designed a transition notebook.  Next year or maybe the year after she might be ready for a researching notebook, but as for now she is using our CC notebook, which I am so excited to use!!

 

I have everything in there from Timeline to Fine arts, if you are part of the Classical Conversations community (or even not in a community and doing it at home) this is a great resource.  Even if you only use a few pages from it, it's going to make learning memory work REALLY fun.  So let me run you through the notebook real quick.

For every week you will have a page for each subject.  We divided them by weeks in a 2 inch binder.  I have a smaller "weekly binder" so that she isn't overwhelmed by the CC notebook.  I will put each weeks work into the weekly binder and then I will switch it out at the end of the week (put the week she's done with back into the CC notebook and the work she needs to do into the weekly binder).

So in each week you have the following subjects:

• Prayers (record the things you prayed for in CC)
• Presentations (write your presentation-would be a super handy tool the day before community!)
• Timeline - every week has a cut and paste timeline sheet, the first 8 weeks are in black and white but on the connected website you can look for the first 8 weeks in color and replace the black and white ones.  Also not included in the notebooking pages but also on CC connected are for those little researchers and writers the notebooking page for timeline.
• A history work page where it is drawing and writing out the sentence.  In the back of each file is also a notebook page for the older ones with more lines and a tiny box to draw on.  I also have a few other history sentence review pages on the connected that would be great replacements or additions.
• Math page- there are older children math pages in the back of some files too.
• Latin-usually either a copy work or mini book or activity page
• Science experiment page and a science memory work page
• Geography cut and paste and a geography color/map
• English page
• and my favorite FINE ARTS!  there is a fine arts page in every week pertaining to either great artists, what your child will learn in drawing, or tin whistle, and composers.

And all of those pages you can find weekly on my username SHERIELLIS at CC connected (there is a subscription fee, $6 a month if you are a member of community or $60 if you are not.)

SHERI ELLIS AT CC CONNECTED

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