Silly Question: WWE2....do you break your book in half, tear out pages, ???

[umsami]

Looking for hive wisdom on this.  What is the best way to handle the fact the the second half of the WWE2 book is the student pages.  The book is so ginormously thick, that I can't really give it to my eight year old to use/write in.   Did you break your book in half, and possibly spiral bind both halves?  Do you just rip out the pages and put them in a binder?  

 

Help!  

(I realize that the answer may be painfully obvious. ? )

[El...]

I took mine to Staples.  They had a big slicer to cut off the binding and a big hole-punch for putting the pages in a binder.  I don't think it cost very much.  My kids prefer that the pages lay down flat for writing.  

[SoCal_Bear]

I left it intact and just used a composition notebook.

 

[Noreen Claire]

We tear out one week at a time. I hole punch the papers and put them into a binder, and then I work from the book and he works from the binder. I'm doing this with WWE3 (DS9) and WWE1 (DS6) now.

[prairiewindmomma]

I had multiple kids to put through the curriculum, so I kept the book whole and bought the student pages in digital form.  I then print off student pages for whatever kids needed them.  I've been letting the youngest "use up" the book.  For her, we did the slice and rebind. 

[Miss Tick]

The line widths on the student pages rarely were the appropriate size for my students, so they just worked on loose leaf paper in a binder. I tore out the stories and kept those together with a binder clip for each year.

[Milknhoney]

I wanted to be able to reuse the book with my second, so with the first I made copies of the copywork pages and just gave him regular handwriting paper for the dictation. 

Now that I'm on kid #2, I'm just tearing the pages out of the back of the book and then saving in a binder. I was worried that the book would be awkward to handle once a bunch of pages were missing, but it has been fine.

[wathe]

I kept the book intact.  We didn't use the student pages.  The copy work lines didn't work for my kids.

I transcribed the copy work to handwriting without tears style paper.   I typed narrations.  Dictations done on same style paper as copy work.    Filed it all in a loose-leaf binder.

 

[forty-two]

I used to photocopy the student pages (which the book says is legal for single family use), but I got tired of all the loose pages.  So now we use a notebook.  I handwrite the copywork model as we go over it and discuss it, as well as handwrite the narrations as the kids give them to me.  Dictations are likewise done in the notebook - I just make sure it's on a fresh page where she can't see the copywork.

[Melissa in Australia]

 for my older kids used an exercise book  for the actual student work.

I have bought the PDF and are planing to print out for the twins.

 

[Rachel]

Mine is on my Kindle. I write any copywork in a notebook.

Edited September 27, 2018 by Rachel

[librarymama]

Just last week I decided to start tearing out the page we need each day and it was so freeing. 

I don't really care that the lines are a bit big. It has saved me time and having yet another thing to have to print off or write out. 

[dsbrack]

I had mine cut and then had the covers and the teacher pages bound.  I hole punched the student pages for their binder.  

[ByGrace3]

The first year I bought the hardcopy, I purchased the pdf of the student pages, printed them and had them spiral bound at Staples. After that year I just bought the whole thing as a pdf and printed and spiral bound the pages.

[ExcitedMama]

I just read the TM and then had DS do the student pages in the back. It was annoying to flip it around but it worked.  

[LMD]

My child does the writing in their own notebook. I copy out copywork into his notebook as needed (literally as we sit down to do the lesson)

I have previously done both printing pdf student pages and tearing out. I settled on this because my kids do most of their work into one notebook and I like keeping everything together.