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Does anyone use a copywork book?
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Instead of loose pages or a 3-ring binder for the girls, even though they’re not to the point of the Book of Mottoes, we thought it would be a really neat keepsake for them to practice their handwriting in an actual book they can save and look back on as they work and after they’re grown. Anyone do this? What kind of book do you use, and where did you find it? A regular journal book at Barnes & Noble just isn’t quite what we’re looking for since this is really a “practice” book, not a writing book.
We use a composition book. My son is starting out this year with some copywork sheets that I downloaded and I actually cut these to size and pasted them in his book for a few pages so his work would be there. He actually uses a composition book that has pages that are only lined at the bottom and blank at the top – for drawing a picture and writing on the same page. Good for a beginning writer. I think it is Mead brand.
I like composition books better than spiral notebooks because they discourage tearing out pages, and also discourage one of my silly pet peeves – turning to just “any” page in a notebook and writing there. In a spiral notebook, that is what one of my children frequently does. I don’t know why this drives me so crazy LOL.
Anyway, I also think the composition books look cool, they are kind of old fashioned, and you can have fun decorating the cover – we have done collages on them, also decorated with stickers and colorful tape. And you can shelve them and they last – we have several that my husband wrote in in high school, and they have held up very well since they have a sewn binding. All this for $1 – that is why I like them! (Saw them last week at walmart for about a dollar – nicer fancy ones are about $2.50 – still cheap).
Hope that gives you some ideas!
We use composition books too. Inexpensive and it keeps all the work for one year together. I let the kids choose one with a cover they like. I think they tend to work a little harder at excellence if they are using a book they love the look of… mine do, anyway. 🙂
Our girls left PS in the middle of 5th grade, and I bought them each a pretty journal to do copywork in, we have kept that going throughout the school years, I have always given them the choice of what to copy – because I felt in that way it had more meaning to them. So if they had a Bible passage or paragraph from a book, a poem, a speech, whatever they liked that was their copywork. I found that giving them a pretty book, and a choice in what to copy made them more likely to do a good job and take a pride in their work. They are pleased to have them now and look back through them. Linda
Thanks, Linda. That’s how we are feeling about it, too. What kind of journals do you use, and where did you get them? Or are they the kind like you’d get at Barnes & Noble?
(I do like the price of those composition books, though! I will have to see what kinds of books we find, if any.)
I used to wait for them to go on sale at Barnes and Noble or Borders (because Borders are going out of business you might get a good deal right now if you have one nearby). Sometimes Target would have pretty ones as well. I have also in the past used a composition book and covered it with scrapbook paper to make it more attractive and that is a good cheap option. I would also attach a bookmark ribbon when I did that. I like to make them attractive because they were for something special. Linda
my son is not yet to the point of a book of mottoes either. What I found that we’ve been using as of late that he and I both like are the Copybooks from Memoria Press. He really likes to illustrate what he draws – and these have a space/page for illustrating each thing they copy. He also is still at the point where copying the line right above is helpful to him (i.e. not looking at one book and writing in a separate one). I also have one of the grade school notebooks that I got at wal-mart with a similar format but completely blank – the dotted lines are on the bottom half of the page and the top half is blank for drawing. If they liked the drawing aspect of things and writing in a separate book from what they are copying isn’t an issue, that would be a good idea too. I intend to use that when we finish the MP Copybooks – I started to use it, but I realized he still needed slightly larger lines and didn’t do as well without the model right above what he was copying. Like I said, he really likes to draw – and it is fun to be able to look back through it and see not only where his writing is coming along, but his drawing as well.
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