notebooking | Starry Sky Journal

There has been a lot of notebook love going around here. I am loving it too in this latest incarnation. The younger children all got simple bound sketchbooks just for lesson time. Unlike the millions of drafts and doodles on printer paper, only the very best work gets done in the notebook. Unlike the millions of pieces of printer paper, the work stays together.

Bound books for the win.

The girls picked up Grandma Chickenlegs during our long awaited first library trip locally. I probably wouldn't have picked it up myself but it ended up being a good read. Tess was quick to tell me the story had elements from both Hansel and Gretel and Cinderella. We talked about story elements and found some printables. My heart isn't in printables at the moment, partly because there is no printer and partly because of those millions of pieces of paper thing. We ended up making our own simple pages including those things mentioned on the posters.

We've made a page a day since and I hope to share some more.

Just some random glimpses of learning lately. Some favorite things this fall have been drawing from how to books like Draw Write Now, some of which we are also using for our continent studies. They have gone through a fair amount of origami paper. The littles have a much better handle on the world map.

We did a little Catholic feast day cooking. Just a little. A birthday cake for Our Lady. Some cookies for St Rose of Lima. We tried some marshmallow fudge molded into roses for St Therese. That didn't turn out so hot. You win some, you lose some.

The lagoon notebook page below is from Kieran's geography. Kieran loves the geography book I shared in this post. We actually use a workbook as well. A both/and approach this year. He is using techniques from the Drawing With Children book and I think the pages are really bold and fun.