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Oct. 6, 2009

Do You Have to Do A Notebook?

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It seems everyone and every resource suggests putting together a tidy science notebook when you are studying. Make illustrations, color photocopies, write paragraphs, glue/paste diagrams together, perhaps do some haiku on a caterpillar. This all sounds so great and I can absolutely see how being able to look back on a photograph of our cell diagram would have much meaning and be a wonderful record. But, it's just enough for me that we're doing anything at all extra with science, beyond CC that is. We read and occassionally do a project to bring a point home. So far we've done 3 enrichment activities with science, though we've read many more days than that. I'd love a notebook, but honestly, I can't see how I'd pull that together along with everything else we're doing. My bottom line goal is to instill a biblical worldview in my children, and that happens by reading during school hours and talking, watching a good movie like Planet Earth at night and talking, discussing God's amazing plan with the details of Joseph's life and how that relates to them after we've read Victor Journey Through the Bible....I just don't know that I could balance a fabulous project this year. Baby steps...we're moving forward, so maybe next year I can do all we're doing plus have a visual record to flip through of what we've done. It would be nice.
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Oct. 6, 2009 - you know it!

Posted by Anonymous
The eternal struggle....am I doing enough? This is a good reason to be still and let God guide you and do not go off on a whim just because what someone else is doing looks good. I know you do this already. (I am preaching to myself here!) I really think moms who choose the fast track for their kids - who do too much, too early - will live to regret it one day. It's a small voice in a wilderness of "shoulds." Why this race for faster, better, more education, earlier and earlier? Who are we racing against? The cost is a lost childhood, and a burnt out family. Children lose their desire to learn, are feeling stressed because of too little free time, don't know what to do with themselves outside of structured lesson time, and all that stress is not good for mama either! When is enough, enough? When does the stamp of approval finally come? There's always more you can do. So, it never will! At that point, the temptation to turn the education over to someone else will be great. I am glad you wrote this, I needed to think about it. It's a constant thing, reevaluating priorities and staying on track!

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