I'm reading a book, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer. She talks about keeping a journal while reading (a commonplace book). Great idea! So why not involve Madeline in the process of prettying up a spiral notebook? Before the littlest ones were awake (Abbie joined us near the end), we set out to stamping, cutting, coloring, gluing, and covering it all with contact paper.Maddie made one for her and one for Abbie (she's a thoughtful one, that Maddie) while I made one for me. The girls took theirs to church yesterday to color in and it kept them a bit reverent. I've started filling mine in with thoughts/epiphanies/summaries of what I'm currently reading.
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We're using these for our Stateswomen's School... It is such a great idea! I listened to a download titled You Deserve a Great Education by Jennifer Jensen at the 2009 TJEd Forum. It was an excellent talk and she spoke a lot of using a notebook and had a lot of great information... it's worth listening to!
I've heard of this...great idea. I've also heard of a gratidude journal. Write something you're grateful for every day. You'll be amazed at what you have by the end. I think I might go and start one now.
What a great idea Dahlia! I love it.
That sounds so fun! I bet Maddie loved it. I like the idea of this combined with a gratitude journal. I could definitely use one on some days!!
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