Using Notebooking Pages In Every Area Of Your Homeschool
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 5:00AM
We have been notebooking in our homeschool for as long as I can remember.
Notebooking allows my children to have a scrapbook of their learning. It allows them to express themselves through writing, drawing, cutting and pasting, and more.
Notebooking can also be done across ALL areas of your homeschool. We have notebooked our way through history, science, and music - with sprinklings of Bible copywork, math notebooking, and notebooking with literature.
My FAVORITE resource in this area is Notebooking Pages.
Don't you love the image above?
We have been notebooking all about birds for the past couple weeks. With my Notebooking Pages Lifetime Membership I have complete access to HUNDREDS of notebooking pages. This Birds Set includes 55 notebooking pages with primary and regular lines in a variety of layouts.
PERFECT.
About Notebooking Pages
Notebooking Pages has many facets:
- Free Memberships - Free members receive access to all free notebooking resources, monthly subscriber freebies, and more. This is a good place to get your feet wet! (Right now you can download free Memorial Day Notebooking Pages - and more!)
- Notebooking Publisher Web App - This is an area of the site where you can create your OWN notebooing pages. In the photo below I created a notebooking page for the harpsichord while we were learning about Handel. I simply typed in "Harpsichord" and found a picture of one online and added it. It was EASY! My daughter is enjoying creating notebooking pages, too. The possibilities here are endless. Members receive one free year access to this notebooking web-app.
- The Notebooking Shop - Here you can purchase individual products and product bundles. For example, you can purchase a set of notebooking pages for mammals for $5.95. Or, you can purchase Latin & Greek Word Study Pages for $2.00. There are SO MANY OPTIONS. These are just two of the sets we have enjoyed using. There are many, many more!
- LIFETIME Membership - You receive all 150+ current notebooking products, as well as access to all FUTURE notebooking products. Y
Our Favorite Features of Notebooking Pages
Ease of Use
The website itself is very easy to use. When I log into my account, I simply go to "member download area" and can browse all of the notebooking pages. I then click on exactly what I want and the pages are downloaded in a .pdf file to my computer. Super simple.
Customizable
Using the Publisher App I can create pages for anything I want - literally. In the picture below we were working in Story of the World. I wanted to created a page showing Peru. I could grab a premade page of South America from the site, and then add the text "Secret of the Andes" and the arrow to the map. We put this in our notebooks.
I also wanted to make a sheet about llamas. Using one of the many templates in the Publisher App I created one in just a few minutes.
Added to the notebook was also a Middle Ages notebooking page (which is part of a set offered on the site).
I created a completely customized notebooking set for one specific chapter in our history text.
Variety
As I have mentioned, you can find just about anything on Notebooking Pages, from blank templates, to subject specific pages. My favorites include:
- Bible
- Geography
- Famous Musicians
- History
- Holidays (arranged by month - very nice!)
- Nature Study
- Science
Custom Copywork Pages
I love that one of the new features in the Web App is custom copywork pages.
Notebooking Pages has put together a nice video about this feature. Watch how easy it is to make a beautiful page of copywork.
Notebooking Pages is my one-stop shop for notebooking. It is a resource we use DAILY. No more hunting for notebooking pages all over the internet. It is all in ONE PLACE. I love that.
Reader Comments (63)
I use them sporadically but mostly in science and history I'd love to use them even more!
I will begin homeschooling next year so I have never note-booked. I have heard many positive things about it and look forward to using this method!
We use notebooking with art and nature studies, but plan to do more for other studies.
We have used a little bit of notebooking for science and history (but we've done more lapbooking). I'm hoping to add more notebooking as my kids get older.
I have never used note booking with our school work and I would love this resource for learning to incorporate them!
I love Notebooking Pages! I have a lifetime membership and use her pages all the time.
I'm totally new at all of this. I'm learning about the option to home school. Thanks for introducing this product!
So far we have done 1 notebooking project and it was about horses.
We use note booking pages for mainly history and now writing.I need to use them more! Hope we win! We could really use this! Thank you for the giveaway!
I just discovered Notebooking Pages through the Facebook post. We have decided to homeschool our kids starting this Summer. I am gathering all the resources I can find before we start. I love the idea of notebooking and look forward to using it as part of our curriculum. I'd love to win, but regardless, I will make use of Notebooking Pages.
I love these pages! Excited for this giveaway!
I haven't gotten into notebooking yet but hope to this year. My daughters have just started reading, so I think notebooking will be a great next step.
This is a interesting post, I'm excited to see how I can interpret this into our homeschool :)