All homeschoolers love free or low cost materials. It helps us to have more to offer our children without spending more. So if you also love Apologia's Exploring Creation set then you might want to take a look at the new notebooking journals that now accompany them.
For those of you who notebook, you know how time consuming it can be to
help our children to design a page, purchase all the necessary supplies,
find printables for them and get it all ready to go. It's certainly
worth it but definitely takes some effort. What if someone offered a journal where it's all put together for us? Imagine a journal where we don't even need to buy the binder or notebook to hold the pages.
That is exactly what the new journals are offering!
"These
journals are beautiful spiral bound notebooks that will save you time
and money. You won't have to print and keep up with your child's
notebook pages, buy and maintain page protectors, or purchase and
compile binders...everything that makes notebooking time-consuming and
labor intensive for mom. Also, your child will adore having their own
notebooking journal. "
They offer more than just plain pages where children insert the right word or drawing however.They have put together a complete system to support the books.
Each of the notebooking journals include:
- A daily schedule for those who like to have a plan or would like their children to complete the book on their own
- Templates for written narrations, the notebooking activities and experiments
- Review Questions
- Scripture Copywork, with both print and cursive practice
- Reading lists and additional activities, projects, experiments for each lesson
- An appendix with beautiful, full-color, lapbook-style Miniature Books
- Field Trip Sheets to keep a record field trips
- A
Final Review with fifty questions the students can answer either orally
or in writing to show off all they remember and know at the end of the
course.
So how is this free?
Jeannie
is giving away four Astronomy Notebooking Journals and four Botany
Notebooking Journals to bloggers who post about this on their site.
Visit her blog to learn more about this contest:
Jeannie's Journal
Hurry though, the deadline is soon!
Check out the samples of what you could be using in your homeschool and could win if you participate:
Sample Botany journal pages
Sample Astronomy journal pages
If you have never used notebooking in your homeschooling, this may be a great way to sample that method of student work. Check back here soon. I will be putting up more information on notebooking just for you!
If you are a notebooking homeschool family, come share your experiences with the community at the Dollar Stretcher.
