Yes, that is an accurate description of lapbooking. lol They are very detailed and often time consuming. You can tweak them, like any thing else, to suit your family. We use lots of notebooking pages around our house for narrations both written and drawn. It is a good way to assess more than just knowledge of the subject – like what you need to focus on in grammar. lol I mostly use notebooking for copywork, dictation, science, history, (all of our author, artist, composer, and other famous people studied) geography, and occasionally literature narrations.
This is something new that I am going to try this next year. We love to listen to books and enjoy them very much, but the amount of time spent reading aloud is hard for me. We listen to audio books during lunch and then some more after lunch (so about an hour) everyday. The kids tend to listen better when they are drawing or coloring. I decided that I would get some artist sketch pads from Walmart and make that their drawn illustrations of what they hear. This notebook is solely for our read-aloud literature. I figure that we will have a neat book when they are done that they will enjoy looking at. And, I won’t have all those odds-n-ends pieces of paper treasures to store forever that have no real meaning to me, other than the kids drew it.
This link will take to the site I learned about notebooking from. She explained it, has tons of pages and once you see the pages you will see where and how you can use them. http://notebookingpages.com/ She even has a web app coming next month where your kids can type in their narrations and design their own page and print it.
