Problems in The Notebooking Activities {Part 2}

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Notebooking activities have a very wide scope of working system as notebooking can be used in some homeschooling methods, in many subject, and with a great range of ages. This post is a part of a couple seri. You might read the previous post, Problems in The Notebooking Activities {Part 1} to get you into all common problems in the notebooking activities faced by parents and children

Keeping and organizing the finish products and the blank paper

As I told you previously, printing the blank notebooking pages and keep it as stock of pages is very important to manage your time more effectively. However, keeping them tidily is not less important. I often forget what I have kept in my stock. However, organizing the stock of blank notebooking pages is not as complicated as keeping the finish work of children. Putting the blank pages in a document keeper labeled with number code will make it easier for you or your children to choose what is suitable. You might also classify the printed pages based on certain spesification. For example, put the primary lined pages into a group altogether. You can have this example in the 100+Notebooking Page Templates

Pages with single story can be put into one group. You can have this example in the 100+Notebooking Page Templates Pages with three-item explanation should be in another group. You can have this example in the 100+Notebooking Page Templates To get the paper safer and tidier, I use hole punch to the notebooking pages before they are written. Punching the clean paper is much easier and safer rather than the written one. I am also afraid that if I make mistake in hole punching, the children's master piece will be broken. We use the three ringed binders with card stock separator or plastic protector as separator to keep the notebooking pages. We have some binders based on the subjects that use notebooking activities. It is very hard to find the three ring binder here. When there isn't any stock in the book store, we use the two ringed one. Three ringed binders make the pages tidier as they won't be easily folded on the bound corners. Three ringed binders also keep the paper straight upward when we hold the binders vertically for display or presentation.

Setting a standard of notebooking work

One reason for doing the notebooking activities is to make the children's work a master piece so that they can review and show it to others later on their life. Therefore, children should understand the purpose of notebooking activities so that they would try to do their best. However, please don't be stressful when you find your 5 years old kid drawing not tidily while he is telling a story about the picture. In that case, it is not the final result that becomes the standard of notebooking work, but it is the process of translating the picture into words. It also happens with us. When my son is not on the right mood, he won't be able to show the best he can do on the notebooking pages. Being grumpy with him will just make things get worse. As long as his work is still acceptable, keeping the masterpiece as whatever it is still fine. I also help him to get it look tidier.

Managing the notebooking time

Solving this problem is very relative to your condition. As I said in the first point, setting time limit for kids can be familiarized since they are very young. Don't wait until kids make trouble because they have been bored and you stopped, but knowing their limit and capability would be the best thing that we can do to determine the proper duration to the working hour. Notebooking doesn't have to be done everyday. Be flexible and enjoyable. Once kids can enjoy the process, they can do it much better. Help them to start their words when they are not confidence, but don't be too much. Getting kids to start narration needs some patience.

Kids are still too young to start notebooking

I started notebooking with my youngest son when he was going to be 4 years old. He drew pictures and traced my writing a lot. He was really proud of his work. I remember my kindergarten “homework”. My teacher asked my mother to write the lyric of the song I had to sing in front of her at home. That can be a kind of notebooking activity with kids with very young age. Notebooking activities don't have to be handwriting. It can be pictures and piece of arts with some caption written by parents. Even doodling can show learning result for some kids. Explanation about addition with pictures can be one example of notebooking in mathematics with early learning ages.

We prefer hands on activities than writing.

Hands on activities usually involve process and explanation. You might need to record how your children proceed the hands on activities by writing on the process templates. Do it quickly and you might return to the same task with recording written  on the notebooking pages. By recording the hands on process, kids might review what they have done in the future. They might also show off their activities to others using the chart on the notebooking page. Cooking and scientific experiments are other hands on activities that can be recorded using the notebooking activities. Sticking some maths manipulation on the notebooking page will make the notebooking page keep their work as a portfolio. Here are some example of process notebooking pages:

If you are considering notebooking as part of your homeschooling activities, you might visit my first ebook, a compilation of 100+ Notebooking Pages Templates to make notebooking more engaging and to ease your work.

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