Providing Proof

October 26, 2007 by KellyH.

Each day the neighbor child comes home with corrected tests, finished book reports, and short essays. What does your child have to show for their day of learning with Weaver?

When we first started with homeschooling, we had daily math assignments, as well as reading and phonics sheets. For the rest of our studies, we discussed things and did hands-on activities. Sometimes there was an original drawing or a coloring sheet done. As the months went on, I started to worry that I wasn’t doing enough since we didn’t have all the papers that the neighbor child had. Imagine my delight when people started telling me how intelligent my children were!

It’s not that we never do anything…

Weaver doesn’t incorporate all the busywork that some curriculums use. Some of our projects have been large, like the edible relief maps we made one year. So I started taking photographs and saving things in a file folder. Apparently, others thought of this idea as well, and many took it a step or two further. Thus, the birth of notebooking and lapbooking. These aren’t original to the Weaver curriculum, but they sure work well with it!

Notebooking is basically what I was doing: taking finished reports, colored pages, and photos of finished projects, and placing them into a three-ring binder or two-pocket folder with the unit’s theme as the title on the front of the notebook.

Lapbooking is taking the information you learn and placing it within some type of “book” for easy viewing later. Kind of like creating your own book from all the information you gather. Many Weaving families are enjoying lapbooking as a way to compile info for each unit.

Both of these ideas are good for any amount of information your children gather, and they really bring out the creativity in a child!

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