visuals of others Common Place Books?

[stampalot]

Prebound journals make me nervous! We've always done copywork in binders so it's moveable by topics.

I'd like the prebound journal to be divided by topics, will that get complicated or expensive.

Lisa

[lmercon]

Do you mean journals for science and history notebooking? My ds has a separate 3-ring binder for both subjects. We do the notebooking assignment on loose paper, and then put it in plastic sheet protectors. But for grammar, math, dictation, and poetry copywork, we use composition notebooks.
hth,
Laura

Edit: OOPS! I just read your other post - I misunderstood "commonplace" book. I'm not using Preparing yet, so I didn't recognize that word.

[DHT1999]

My son only puts Bible copywork in his Commonplace Book. All other copywork is done on regular notebook paper (unless the HOD guide instructs him to use lineless paper) and then put into one of two binders. He has a binder for Language Arts and then one that contains both History and Science. So, he just has the two binders (3 ring notebooks) and his one Commonplace Book. I encouraged him to put Poetry in his Commonplace Book but he wants that in LA and his Commonplace Book to be just for Scripture. It's just a regular bound composition notebook. It is filling up and he loves to open it and see just Bible verses in there. This has worked well for us with Preparing.

[water2wine]

We use a composition book. http://www.amazon.com/Mead-Composition- ... B00006IDM7 You know the cheap ones you get from Wallmart then we use the post-it divider tabs to separate sections. Like these http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/7 ... 2000000005

This works really well for us. If you want to get fancy you can let them make a cover for it or decorate it. I have been using these composition books for every level of HOD. Since we have used it in Preparing all my kids have common place books now. They also make great prayer journals. If you sew they are easy to cover in fabric as well. Anyway just an idea for you.

[smithdonnajo]

Great ideas. DHT1999: it's neat that your son only wanted the Scripture in his Common Place book!

water2wine: What separate sections/tabs do you have it divided into?

Thanks.

[smithdonnajo]

I found this link helpful in learning more about "Common Place" books:

http://www.charlottemasonhelp.com/2009/ ... older.html

[Kathleen]

Here's what we used this year...


We got this at Staples.

Kathleen

[water2wine]

Great ideas. DHT1999: it's neat that your son only wanted the Scripture in his Common Place book!

water2wine: What separate sections/tabs do you have it divided into?

Thanks.

CTC/ Preparing
Bible verses(this is the copywork I have them do and HOD)
Dictation
history
science
poetry
written narrations

My younger two do Beyond and have one as well
Spelling
copywork
writing (I have them make up sentences with the spelling words) They also make up stories sometimes and put them in this section.

You don't have to divide them like this. My kids just like it. Makes them feel official.