We use lots of notebooking in our homeschool, mostly for narration. But notebooking has other applications too such as research. Honing research skills is one of the goals I have listed for Sprite’s middle school years, so I try to regularly incorporate short research assignments into her schedule. Here are two recent examples. Uganda Notebooking […]
Narration Basics: From Oral to Written
This is the second post in the Narration Basics series. View the first post at Narration Basics: Expecations. Sherry, a blog reader, emailed me to say, “I can’t seem to make heads or tails of notebooking. I don’t know how to begin with ‘prompting’ the writing part. Do you ask questions? Do you tell her what […]
Paul Gauguin Artist Study
Our artist for the term is Paul Gauguin. Artist Study Background While most Charlotte Mason homeschoolers focus on one piece of art a week, we prefer to narrate a piece each day. For some reason a daily activity is easier for me to remember and implement than a weekly or monthly one. (Our poetry study […]
Ransom Letter Word Studies
No, we’ve not kidnapped any vocabulary words, but Sprite did use the stereotypical style of a ransom note to create some language arts notebooking pages. In our spelling lessons, there were a few words that Sprite kept misspelling over and over. When that happens, I know to stop repeating the same teaching methods and instead choose […]
Middle School Egypt Study
We covered Ancient Egypt way back in first grade, and now we’re revisiting it in sixth grade, using Beautiful Feet ancients as our base. THE BOOKS Non-fiction Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books) Pyramid by David Macaulay Ancient Egyptian Art (Art in History) Activity/Notebooking/Lapbooking Remembering God’s […]
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