Description from homeschooloasis.com
This is an easy-to-use tool for creative, hands-on learning in many subjects! One homeschool mom said: “I've enjoyed working with your books and the kids. My son has written a few books now and finishing them up on the computer has helped him to enjoy writing even more. Thanks for the vehicle to making writing and homeschooling easier.”
Ted Wade, (author of The Homeschooling Manual) says of the book: “Young hands need to be active, but they are often given only busywork. This idea combines activity with creativity for meaningful, delight-directed learning.” It's geared for 'just- starting-to-read-n-write-ers' up through about age 12. It has over 35 different reproducible masters, each one being a hands-on project in itself!
This is what Teresa Ward, one of Barb's List Shepherdesses and Online Secretaries has to say about this book:
“This book is more than just masters for the pages of the booklets your kids will love making, it is full of ideas to embellish the booklets, to make them truly unique & personal. Making booklets is a fabulous, real-life way of collecting, organizing, & diplaying your child's learning. They are useful for developing language & communication skills without the dreary drudgery of worksheets! These pages matter!!!!!!!!! Barb also shares many ideas for binding your children's works of heart.”
Mom just copies the ones she wants to use (children can go through and select the ones they are interested in!) It includes complete directions and ideas for forming them into a “make-my-own” booklets like “Buds-to-Blossoms Book”; “Grandparent Book”; “Around My Town Book”; “Days of Creation”; “Planets”; “A Week in My Life,” and “Tree 'n' Leaf Book.” This book is part of Barb's answer to “What did you do with your kids *before* they got to senior high?”
My points of impact:
In terms of writing, as the ability increases, so will the quantity.
Trade back and forth between projects to stimulate inspiration/life-relational
Modify for PreK, with the intention to move into independent booklet building at the appropriate time.