Our Venture into Notebooking

When we began the Christmas Unit Study by Amanda Bennett, I was excited about the included notebooking pages.  Notebooking is new to us.  I've read about it over and over.  I've been intrigued, but sometimes I struggle with taking things I read and putting them to practical use.  Over and over, I would see these amazing notebooking pages on homeschool blogs and forums and think, "How awesome!"

Laura quickly got creative with her notebook.  She is taking the printouts I downloaded from the Unit Study and is coloring them and making them hers.  I love seeing the girls come to life with their studies.

Megan isn't doing a lot of what the unit study asks.  Being five, I think a lot of it is beyond her.  However, we are reading One Wintry Night.  I also checked out a bunch of Christmas books from the library.  I have Megan creating her own notebook.  With a focus on Christ, I am having her color pictures of the Nativity Story. 

I struggle with having Christmas be about anything but Christ.  In this culture, all around is other things that everyone wants Christmas to be about. 

Megan loves making her pictures colorful!  She is having fun doing the coloring.  She loves all the reading we are doing!  I love that I get to go through the Christmas story with her once again.  I know that we have read it before, but re-reading it is such a blessing.  I want the stories of Jesus ingrained in her soul, to be a part of her!

I think notebooking is going to be fun!  I used to scrapbook, way back before Megan was born.  I enjoyed it immensely.  I stopped after having a new baby.  There never seemed to be time or extra funds.  There has been a little bit of notebooking materials in some of the curriculum materials, but it wasn't very creative.  It was copy this picture, write that paragraph as copywork.  It was okay, but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for.  This is a nice change of pace.