TOG Notebooks-New Ideas

I just finished putting together another set of TOG Student Notebooks. The Levenger Circa System is working wonderfully and I can recommend it highly.

If you decide on this for yourself a few notes I would add to my earlier post:

1) Be sure to check the Loom for Corrections to your addition. (I wasted a few pages by forgetting this)

2) Be sure to check Book Updates and get any new Activity Pages or Reading Charts and note when to add those in.

3) I have recently put our part time faculty (aka Daddy) to work doing the review of vocabulary, Important People, Events and Dates prior to doing an Evaluation. He has started making short notes (a couple sentences) on these items and printing them for his reference as they work. I have taken to including them in my big Teacher Book and am toying with the idea of including a blank page with such names for the kids to take notes on as they work.

4) I have found that there are some resources in the activities section that have worksheets for the kids. I have taken to including copies of these after the SAPs in our Notebooks.

Each unit is getting easier to work with and I am looking forward to working with Tapestry DE soon and testing its potential.

This is ultimately a huge time saver for me and really keeps Clemmie and Spencer on track with their work.

I also am seeing potential for using such an idea with other history programs...but maybe that's another post.