kfeusse Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 We are going to begin SOTW 2 in a couple weeks, and unlike SOTW 1, I want to have the kids do the narratives (we were just starting homeschooling when we began SOTW 1 and I just didn't get that part started, so now is a logically time)...but I don't know if there are preprinted pages that someone has posted before to use for this, or if I should just use a notebook or what....what you guys all do? Oh, with SOTW 1, I put together a family binder with the maps, coloring sheets and pictures of any of the activities we did. So I want to put the narratives in our new binder...according to chapter. Any suggestions?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 There are some preprinted pages for SOTW1-2, maybe even 3 that someone will have to give you the links for if you want them. For us, we use plain notebook paper. Each of my dds have their own SOTW binder. I pre print out a full copy each of the student pages and 3 hole punch and put in notebooks at the beginning of the year, one for each child. After I read aloud I help them with their narrations, which I write down. Then 3rd grader copies hers neatly to notebook paper and puts in her binder along with the color sheet and map. For my first grader I put the copy that I wrote into hers, and I have her copy one sentence from it or one sentence of an important fact that I want her to write. She does that on primary lined paper which I then 3 hole punch and put into her notebook too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallory Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 My boys each have a compsition book. They even usually cut out the coloring pictures and glue them in there. Or they do thier own drawings. My 4th grader keeps his narrations in there. My 5th grader keeps his outlines, list of facts, and summaries from books. When they were younger (and we weren't as good about this stuff anyway) we used those composition books that have the primary lined paper in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 For first grade, we used some notebook pages that someone made. For second, we used pre-printed pages, but they were just smaller primary lines with a space at the top for a picture (dd drew a pic in first grade, but used internet pics in second grade). For 4th grade (third was public), we used notebook paper. We put each narration in chronological order (actually by chapter), and put the map work and any coloring pages behind it. In first grade, we added some pics of the projects we did, but by fourth, we just did the narrations and map work and didn't keep track of the projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I saw one way that I loved and one that was adapted. Original: Composition notebook - the first few pages were the table of contents - first five perhaps. The subsequent pages were numbered. The table of contents from the book were copied, enlarged, and cut. Each page in the composition notebook had the title pasted. The table of contents were written by the student (excellent LA skills here ;) ). As each section was read the student went to that page and wrote a narration. Half sheets of white paper for some sections and the coloring pages for other sections were pasted/taped on the back of the narration page. It looked like they used double stick tape tabs to me. I saw an adaption of this: Purchase the coloring book as a pdf. Printed the coloring book. Type in all titles and chapter headings, let word create the table of contents using Heading1 and Heading2 styles. Print. Where color sheets were used, print the lines and headings on the frontside of the coloring sheet. Three-hole punch and place in a folder (or folders if using this method). After a chapter was finished put it in a presentation binder with pictures (scrapbook sheets) of projects and other misc. items. Each section had a tab-divider - narrations, projects, maps, extra-curricular studies, writings, biographies, inventions .... you get the idea. Each section had a table of contents that identified the pages inside. Each section was listed on the front sleeve with a title - "Ancients". You could go far with this. I believe this reminded me of another program - the notebooking method - but I cannot remember which one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishmommy Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 We do ours orally, but BOY do I like the above idea about making the coloring sheets into narration sheets! Maybe SWB could adapt that for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawberry Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 More ideas! Keep them coming. I am so unorganized, but am leaving behind my pre-scheduled curriculum this year (SL). We'll be doing SOTW 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfeusse Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 There are some preprinted pages for SOTW1-2, maybe even 3 that someone will have to give you the links for if you want them. . does someone have these...I think this might be the easiest way for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I made my own. I went to Zaner-Bloser site where you can print out paper with lines on them. You can type in your own text. I simply wrote the name of the chapter section at the top of the paper and printed it out. I did that for each section. I put them all in a binder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I'm on my phone right now, but yesterday I came across SOTW workbooks on the redshift site (the one that has schedules for SOTW combined with various books). I think one link was broken, but I found a free SOTW workbook on lulu that was based off the ones on redshift. If no one else posts links, I'll dig them up on my computer later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfeusse Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 I'm on my phone right now, but yesterday I came across SOTW workbooks on the redshift site (the one that has schedules for SOTW combined with various books). I think one link was broken, but I found a free SOTW workbook on lulu that was based off the ones on redshift. If no one else posts links, I'll dig them up on my computer later. I found the one on Lulu...it is $4...I like it...so I might be going that way...thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 (edited) Check pdfgenie.org (I spelled this wrong! pdfgeni.org) too. Type in SOTW and you will find lots of neat things that are pdfs for print. Edited January 12, 2011 by ChrissySC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfeusse Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Check pdfgenie.org too. Type in SOTW and you will find lots of neat things that are pdfs for print. I get an error message when I type this in....can someone help me?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 We've used a primary composition book last year and this year; next year we'll just use regular notebook paper, though. DS's narrations are getting longer than one page - YAY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallory Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Original:Composition notebook - the first few pages were the table of contents - first five perhaps. The subsequent pages were numbered. The table of contents from the book were copied, enlarged, and cut. Each page in the composition notebook had the title pasted. The table of contents were written by the student (excellent LA skills here ;) ). As each section was read the student went to that page and wrote a narration. Half sheets of white paper for some sections and the coloring pages for other sections were pasted/taped on the back of the narration page. It looked like they used double stick tape tabs to me. Oooohh, I like this. I think we will have to add in chapter headings now and if we do it next year add in a table of contents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Try the pdfsearchengine too .... and it was pdfgeni.org Google for pdf search engines and you get several options. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I found the one on Lulu...it is $4...I like it...so I might be going that way...thanks. This one is free: http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/sotw-i-workbook-pages----two-day-a-week-format/3018696 It's for SOTW 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 There are more links to workbooks on this page: http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/SOTWmenu.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmama Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Here is the Redshift link. The workbook pages are just what I think you might be looking for! http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/fancy.htm#workbook2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfeusse Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 This one is free: http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/sotw-i-workbook-pages----two-day-a-week-format/3018696 It's for SOTW 1. I need SOTW 2...that one is $4...I think...unless there is a different one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfeusse Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Here is the Redshift link. The workbook pages are just what I think you might be looking for! http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/fancy.htm#workbook2 thanks..I might be able to use this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 The SOTW2 on redshift is very similar to the SOTW1 on lulu (similar in format). I found the lulu one because I think there was a broken link on redshift for the SOTW1 version (I'm doing 1 this year). Sorry to be confusing! It's just hard to share links from my phone. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tylianna Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 nm I didn't see that post above... just ignore me!!!!!!! http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/fancy.htm#workbook2 I printed up copies of this that we are using for SOTW2. It might be too easy based on what you want, but it's a start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawberry Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I think the OP bought the ones from Lulu. They are nice (love the art!), and seem to be for the older child. Looks like we'll be doing SOTW 2 next fall, and he'll be in 6th grade. Does anyone think the ones on redshift would be too juvenile for him? Do you guys do a sub-heading a day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Looks like we'll be doing SOTW 2 next fall, and he'll be in 6th grade. Does anyone think the ones on redshift would be too juvenile for him? Do you guys do a sub-heading a day? The one on redshift has the triple lined stuff for little kids. I wouldn't use that with a 6th grader. You might like the narration pages here for him: http://homeschoolhelperonline.com/notebooking_history_geography.htm I used these this week since I'm the one doing the writing at this point. It's nice, small lines for an older child or adult. ;) Unfortunately, you have to download each one separately, and they're .gif files, not PDFs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallory Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Do you guys do a sub-heading a day? I can't speak to the notebooks, but I have discovered that the only way we can keep moving through SOTW and do some of the fun things too. We listen to the whole chapter in one sitting, then do all the questions, BUT they only make a note book page for one of the sub-headings. That also gives us time and energy to do narrations and outlines from our other readings, which I feel is more important when you have older kids using the lower levels (my 9yo and 11yo are doing SOTW 1 this year). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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