Help with student notebook pages

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Mumkins
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Help with student notebook pages

Post by Mumkins » Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:47 am

My WG daughter is having a hard time. Her scholar prisma colour pencil crayons don't get dark enough when she colours. She wants to write in pencil so she can erase, but, it's really light and it erases the sheet colour when she does erase. When she writes with pen, it gets all smugged. Her biggest problem is definitely with colouring the maps. She says she wishes it was made out of the parchement paper she draws her maps on. She's feeling very discouraged she can't make her pages look nice.

Any suggestions to help her out?
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Re: Help with student notebook pages

Post by LynnH » Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:59 am

I don't have much advice. My son uses his prism color pencils and since often it says to color something lightly in the notebook that works ok. He looks at it more as just shading something not really coloring it in. Also he uses a Frixion erasable pen that doesn't seem to take as much color off if he uses it to erase.
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Re: Help with student notebook pages

Post by Carrie » Sat Nov 07, 2015 1:07 pm

Mumkins,

I am wanting to clarify which maps you are referring to that your daughter is coloring? There are maps within the Journal pages, but there is usually little to no coloring to be done upon them. The only other maps are the ones that are drawn free-hand on white paper for the Mapping the World with Art pages.

For our boys, we use Bic clicky pencils to write on the notebook pages, and they work well. We haven't had trouble erasing on the pages, as the Bic erasers seem to work pretty well. Our boys don't erase huge areas though or press super hard when erasing. A little color might be removed at times, but the color is so light in the boxes that it really isn't too noticeable. My son mentioned that with pen he is just careful not to drag his hand across the page as he is writing so he doesn's smudge the page. My son also agreed that most colored pencil do not work well upon the pages. Coloring and shading lightly with colored pencils seems to work better. We do very little coloring upon the high school pages for this reason. :wink:

As the publisher of the student notebook pages, we have tried varying types of paper and weights of paper to allow the students to write more easily on the pages. Since all of our notebook pages are fully colored, no matter what paper we use, the color from the design of the page covers the entire page (making a somewhat waxy coating). The only way to remove this coating would be to have black and white pages, or to have large areas that have no color, which is something we prefer not to do for overall appearance. We test the pages with our own boys each year and have found that they are able to write upon the pages pretty well.

Perhaps, if your daughter is frustrated, she could type some of her assignments instead, print them, cut them out, and glue them within the box. Or, she could write her assignments on regular paper and cut out the paper and glue it in the box. Or, if preferred, she could cut out the paper first to match the box size, and then write on it and glue it in last. Maybe if she had some options that were paper-related, this frustration would relieve itself? Or, possibly, over time, she might find she just prefers to write in the box instead of going through the hassle of cutting out the paper. A lot of times, just having options make students feel better about their area of frustration. :D

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