Would that I had an endless supply of time to float around the computer collecting ideas and forming plans for our homeschool. Perhaps I should schedule a day just for that purpose and call it a 'teacher inservice day'. 
Today I followed a recommendation someone had posted in a Notebooking group I subscribe to. I checked out the link for Galloping the Globe - a geography guide. (If anyone uses this, tell me what you think. It looked interesting!)
Well, looking at the Galloping the Globe site got me started down the Notebooking train of thought! I looked up a link someone had posted about student notebooks. (For anyone interested, it was http://home.att.net/~bandcparker/parkerkids.html )
On this site, a family had posted several seasons worth of samples from their kids' notebooks. It really got the juices flowing!
We've used notebooks on a limited basis for history and science. We used to have a Bible notebook, where the kids would illustrate Bible passages as I read them. From time to time, I think I would like to consider using this approach a little bit more, but I haven't really taken the time to delve into it.
My oldest daughter is very much of an auditory learner and struggles immensely with writing. If you recall, it is one of the issues that is leading us to get some testing done for specific learning disabilities. I don't know how she would do with notebooking, but I'm sure we could work around that issue by letting her dictate to me. I could then print her oral narrations or descriptions that she wanted on her notebook page. Our second daughter is very visual/artistic/creative and would probably thrive on using notebooks.
Does anyone use notebooking a lot in their house? I'd love to hear how you use it, or any favorite resources you have for learning how to do it. Thanks!
Now, back to work - as I don't have the liberty to sit and ponder school possibilities all day! Too bad!
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