How to organize a laptop station

NONotebooking is the practice of keeping a journal while learning using pictures, words, or both. This is an easy and engaging way to teach any subject and works great in a homeschool setting. Beautiful templates, coloring tools, and a learning environment give students everything they need to write successfully in a notebook.

There are two reasons why children thrive in a notebook learning environment

1. They have ownership of their work. They are designing and scripting their own learning.

2. Quality templates add value to your work. Easy-to-manage spaces make journaling less intimidating.

Organization of a laptop station

Find a wide variety of notebook templates. You can create your own or download templates from thousands of notebook templates available online.

Organize your templates into files or notebooks.

If you are using the ttraditional hanging file system, create folders for your templates so they are easy to locate. Some example categories would be: blank templates, countries, ancient history, floral, insects, character studies, and holidays. There are many, many more categories. Simply add new templates to new folders as they are purchased.

If what you want is to organize your tinserts in notebooks, you may want to fill a three-ring binder with plastic page holders. Print the patterns from each template for your child and use file dividers to organize them by theme.

Organize your art supplies.

Create an area, container, or stand for your child to have easy access to scissors, glue, crayons, colored pencils, and markers. Replenish them several times a year to keep supplies fresh!

Create a Journal for each child’s completed notebook pages.

Your children will be very proud of their notebook pages when they are complete. Validate their hard work by providing them with a place to store them safely. A three ring binder with plastic page protectors works great. At the end of the school year, or when they’ve compiled a large collection of pages on a particular topic, you can even have the pages bound at your local office.

Journals make beautiful keepsakes and even make great gifts for grandparents!

Taking the time to organize your child’s notebook templates, journal, and supplies is essential. If you treat these supplies with respect, they will too. There is something intrinsically free about journaling about what you are learning. It is one of the best ways to document what you are learning. Your children will come to love their journals. Even reluctant writers can grow by first using the pages as copy, then as compilers of words and phrases, and finally documenting their learning.

Writing in a notebook is a fruitful resource and skill to add to any educational setting and works wonderfully with home learning.