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Notebooking Page: Mount Rushmore 2008-04-10 08:01:30 Someday, I hope to be able to visit this majestic monument. It must be awe-inspiring to stand in front of something so huge! In the meantime, I'll have to content myself with pictures, and the kids with their history books.
**Mount Rushmore
- Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**Mount Rushmore - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**Mount Rushmore - One Inch Primary Paper**
**Mount Rushmore - Wide Rule
Now up for sale - Statue of Liberty set 2008-04-09 11:16:01 Here is a small set that you might like to use for a short study on the beautiful Statue
of Liberty. There is practically no end to the amount of resources available for learning about this magnificent statue, and this set is designed to go along with your studies. You get:
15 designed pages:
Simple titled page with color photo (in our 4 sizes of lines: half-inch primary, three-quarter inch
Notebooking Page: Fluorescent vs. Incandescent Bulbs 2008-04-09 08:03:14 Fluorescent bulbs are currently big in the news, because of their energy savings. Perhaps you might want to let your older students research the differences between the two, and the pros and cons of using each kind of bulb. Today's page features only wide rule paper, with two boxes for listing off points about each individual bulb, as well as a large space at the bottom for a short essay.
** Read more:Fluorescent
, Bulbs
HoTM Friday Meme: How I got started homeschooling 2008-04-11 07:57:19 It's Friday
Meme day at Heart of the Matter! Today's topic is "How you got started homeschooling".
I was lucky in that I knew even before I got married that I wanted to homeschool. Way back in my Senior year of high school, my aunt began teaching her oldest son at home. He'd been at home a good bit with a state tutor due to illness, but after he got better and had trouble with the teacher (NOT
Notebooking Page: The planet Mercury 2008-04-11 07:00:01 What better time to start gazing at the night skies than spring and summer, when the weather is so beautiful? Let's start with the first planet
in the solar system, Mercury
:
**The planet Mercury - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Mercury - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Mercury - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Mercury - Wide Rule Paper**
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Announcing - The Carnival of Notebooking! 2008-04-14 19:23:13 Do you enjoy notebooking and want to share with everyone? How about joining the Carnival
of Notebooking, taking place right here!
What is a blog "carnival"? Simply put, it's a single post that gathers a bunch of submitted posts into one place. It's a sort of blog tour, with a particular theme. If you'd like to join in, you can submit a post that's on your own blog, and I'll gather them all
Notebooking Page: The story of the Passover 2008-04-14 07:00:01 I found a very interesting old picture depicting the story
of the Passover
, and wanted to share it by turning it into notebooking pages. I hope you enjoy it!
**Passover notebooking page - Half-inch Primary Paper**
**Passover notebooking page - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**Passover notebooking page - One Inch Primary Paper**
**Passover notebooking page - Wide-rule Paper**
Notebooking Page: The planet Venus 2008-04-15 09:49:11 Next in our Astronomy series, the planetVenus
:
**The planet Venus - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Venus - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Venus - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Venus - Wide Rule Paper**
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Notebooking Page: Modern observance of Passover 2008-04-15 08:31:46 Here's a page for those studying modern ways of observing Passover
. It's titled, with a half-page of lines and a box at the bottom for the child to draw a picture - perhaps a Seder meal, perhaps a family at the meal table, etc.
**Modern
Passover - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**Modern Passover - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**Modern Passover - One Inch Primary Paper**
**Modern Passover -
Notebooking Page: Earth Day (2) 2008-04-15 07:00:02 Here's another Earth
Day page, a single page with blanks for your child to tell a little about Earth Day
, and to either write or draw about what they can do to celebrate:
**Earth Day w/ fill-in boxes**
Notebooking Page: The Oregon Trail 2008-04-17 07:00:01 I came across this map of the OregonTrail
, and knew it would be perfect for a notebooking page!
**Oregon Trail - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**Oregon Trail - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**Oregon Trail - One Inch Primary Paper**
**Oregon Trail - Wide Rule Paper**
WFMW: Morning Coffee you read, not drink 2008-04-16 08:20:47 My friends and family know that I don't drink coffee. I LOVE the smell of it, but can't stand the taste. (My husband laughs when I say "it tastes like burnt nuts!" because, well, that's kind of what it really is.) So why do have have MorningCoffee
every morning? Because it make my morning computer time go more smoothly.
"Morning Coffee
" is really a FireFox extension - a little add-on to the
Notebooking Page: Recycling with drawing space 2008-04-16 07:00:01 Here's another page about recycling that can be used for Earth Day next week, or really for any recycling subject at any time. It's titled, with a half-page of lines and a drawing
space at the bottom. You could use the bottom for things that can be recycled, the process of recycling a particular object, what the world would be like if we didn't recycle, or many more drawings.
**Recycling
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Notebooking Page: Recycling Becomes.... 2008-04-18 08:28:16 One last page before the weekend, so that you'll have it in plenty of time for Earth Day. (Actually, this page can be used any time of the year, it's not labeled as "Earth Day".) This is a single page about recycling, with four boxes to encourage your child to think of what can be created from recycled goods. Paper, plastic, glass and cans are represented. Research with your child about recycling Read more:Recycling
Notebooking Page: The planet Earth 2008-04-18 07:00:01 Next in the astronomy series, our own home, the planetEarth
:
**The planet Earth - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Earth - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Earth - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Earth - Wide Rule Paper**
Don't forget to send in your submissions for the Carnival of Notebooking by Monday at noon!
And don't forget that you have until May 15th
Notebooking Page: The planet Mars 2008-04-21 18:25:27 Traveling quickly through the solar system, we are now debarking at the planet
Mars:
**The planet Mars - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Mars - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Mars - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Mars - Wide Rule Paper**
It's a Bloggy Giveaway! (Yes, again!) 2008-04-21 10:01:39 It's the quarterly Bloggy Giveaway Carnival! I just love this time of the year, even though I have YET to win a thing. Sigh... maybe this time. :-)
For the lucky readers of THIS blog, your prize is your choice of any of the three sets of notebooking pages that I have available right here. That's the Statue of Liberty, the Seven Ancient Wonders or the Spring Collection.
All you have to do is
Notebooking Page: The Bald Eagle 2008-04-21 07:00:00 Today's page is turned landscape, with a line drawing of a bald eagle that can be colored. I think it's a beautiful picture!
**Bald Eagle
- Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**Bald Eagle - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**Bald Eagle - One Inch Primary Paper**
**Bald Eagle - Wide Rule Paper**
ALSO - don't forget that today at noon is the deadline to enter something for the Carnival of Notebooking!
Bird mini-books for notebooking or lapbooking 2008-04-23 07:00:01 Did you know that you can use mini-books in notebooking as well as lapbooking? Of course! Just paste them on one of your notebook pages just as you would in a lapbook. You might like to use a piece of cardstock instead of regular paper, but it's not really necessary.
Here are some bird mini-books that you might like:
**Bird mini-books #1 (Cardinal, Robin, Baltimore Oriole)**
**Bird mini-books
WFMW: Gmail as a brain dump 2008-04-22 22:42:57 I want to be tech-savvy. Oh, I do. But the ever-changing, ever-upgrading world of the internets confuddles me on my best days, sometimes. I know that there are "social bookmark" places like Del.Ici.Ous and other ways of storing your bookmarks online, or saving that special article or recipe you want to keep track of. I'm hopeless with all that.
Instead, I've started taking advantage of Gmail
s
Notebooking Page: "Our Plane Ride" 2008-04-22 22:18:07 Here's a little something for Sheri, who seems a little distracted this week. ;-) To save time, I put all four sizes of writing paper into one file instead of having them separated as I usually do.
**"Our Plane
Ride" creative writing page - all four sizes in one file**
Notebooking Page: Busy As A Bee 2008-04-22 07:00:01 Bees are a fascinating subject, aren't they? I just love how they all work together, and communicate by basically dancing for each other. Here's another bee page for your studies:
**Busy As A Bee - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**Busy As A Bee - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**Busy As A Bee - One Inch Primary Paper**
**Busy As A Bee - Wide Rule Paper**
It's the Carnival of Notebooking! 2008-04-21 22:13:36 Welcome, dear readers, to the first ever Carnival
of Notebooking. I don't know if I'll make this a continual Carnival or not; I guess we'll see how this one goes. Maybe once a month unless it gets really popular, then it could be more often? Well, let's move right in to the posts:
Sheri from The Shades of Pink wanted to share last week's work, "Winnie the Pooh and Some Bees" and I think it's
Notebooking Page: The planet Jupiter 2008-04-24 07:00:01 I remember once doing a science report/project on the planetJupiter
- our group had to pretend we were a travel agency trying to get people to come visit. That was a fun group project! Hmmm... actually, that's not a half-bad homeschool idea!
Here are some notebooking pages for the planet:
**The planet Jupiter - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Jupiter - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper*
Notebooking Page: "What Is A Mother?" acrostic page 2008-04-25 07:00:01 Similar in style to our "What Is Spring?" acrostic page, here is one for the upcoming Mother's Day. It has "M-O-T-H-E-R" spelled out down the page, with a box for each letter. Write a poem, think up words for each letter, draw pictures, whatever comes to mind!
**What Is A Mother? - acrostic-style page**
Congratulations, Katie! 2008-04-26 08:24:46 Congratulations go out to commenter #30, Katie
, who has won her choice of notebooking sets for her family. I've already emailed her, but if you miss the email Katie and see this here first, just drop me a line by the contact button in the top right.
Thank you to EVERYONE who stopped by this week - I wish you could all win! Read more:Congratulations
Notebooking Page: The planet Uranus 2008-04-28 15:44:52 We're nearly through the Major Planets!
**The planet
Uranus - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Uranus - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Uranus - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Uranus - Wide Rule Paper**
Notebooking Page: A Mother's Love 2008-04-28 09:15:51 With Mother's Day coming up, of course your very appreciative children will be writing you oodles of letters, poetry and cards to show just how much they love you and care for you and want only the best for you!
After you pick yourself up from the floor from laughing so hard, print out the page(s) you want:
**A Mother's Love - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**A Mother's Love - Three-Quarter Inch
Notebooking Page: The planet Saturn 2008-04-28 07:57:48 Truckin' it on through the solar system, the next stop is the lovely ringed Saturn
:
**The planet
Saturn - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Saturn - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Saturn - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Saturn - Wide Rule Paper**
Notebooking Page: The planet Neptune 2008-04-29 15:45:01 I still find it hard to remember to stop at Neptune
as the last major planet
! I wonder what the new mnemonic device is for remembering the names and order of the planets since they dropped Pluto - anyone know?
**The planet Neptune - Half-Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Neptune - Three-Quarter Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Neptune - One Inch Primary Paper**
**The planet Neptune - Wide