I have been meaning to do a post on our (or my) Spanish Keeping Notebook for awhile. Now with Celeste's September Keeping Company Invitation, I have the impetus to go ahead and put some words and observations down in a post here.
This is something I desire to do consistently as a record, as well as a future resource for my children.
First I must say that back when Royal was a wee 5-year-old, I actually started a crude version of a foreign language notebook where we would enter a new vocabulary drawing each day. I wrote the Spanish word at the top of the page:
More recently I began two books, one for each of the older two since they have been doing Spanish together since forever.
These spiral-bound books I already had on hand, initially to be purposed as a home for Royal's toddler art. After our move back to the States, I lost my "round tuit". ;-P
As for the set-up, I just found a typical Spanish image to print off and set as the cover art to distinguish it as something special. The children colored their pictures, then I added the letter stickers to spell out "español":
As far as practicality goes, it really has fulfilled that purpose even thus far. I have had so many loose flashcards and papers to deal with. The keeping aspect of this notebook really lives up to its name in this case! Lol :-)
From various web searches and Pinterest posts on foreign language, I have seen the emergence of something called interactive notebooks. I took this idea as something to incorporate into our Keeping and hope it finds use as the children grow to use their books as a source for personal review:
And now with the numerous series we have been learning in our Around the House unit, I have a place to record the series as well as illustrate the vocabulary (with room to add more vocabulary that may belong to each of these rooms of the house):
So there it is!
A work in progress, for sure.
So now I want to see some of yours!
Drop me a line with a link if you've got a post highlighting your special foreign language Keeping.
Okay, this looks really fun--I am so impressed! We started the same way, with a little picture for each word, though we keep ours on index cards in a box. We do the same thing with our series. But I like how you have it all compiled together. I have a feeling my daughter would love doing something like this. Right now, they have foreign language notebooks, but they aren't for Keeping--they're really just for copywork, review exercises, etc. for Italian and Latin. Not at all a formal record or keepsake. I'll have to show my kids these photos and see if they'd like to incorporate something similar in the future.
ReplyDeleteThe interactive notebook looks like a great idea. Even though my dd's 10 she'd probably enjoy doing that because she is always drawing anyhow.
ReplyDeleteHi Kristyn -- Mind if I use one of the photos in this post for this month's Keeping Company spotlight? Let me know! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHey, no problem! Thanks for all your work in hosting every month :-)
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