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What's something you've done this year?
__That Sinking Feeling__ Grade 4: Fist Volume: We used digital cameras to record our results in this investigation. Then we pasted the pictures into word, ordered and labeled them. Following this we created graphs from the data. Here is some of the work.[|FIST VOLUME]

=== How have your students progressed in their notebooking skills? They have made progress in labeling their drawings. They are also quicker to get started and get something down on paper even though they still need a lot of guidance on what it important to include. ===

Use of vocabulary is important in all entries
 * Science Notebook: Suggested Types of Entries**
 * __Drawings:__ Sketches, scientific illustrations, and technical drawings. All drawings should be labeled
 * __Tables, charts, and graphs:__ Should be well organized, easy to read and easy to understand. Should include units of measure when applicable. For primary grades copies of the table, chart and graphs can be pasted or taped in the notebook for the students to fill in the data
 * __Graphic organizers:__ Venn diagrams, T charts, Box charts, and concept maps. This is a great way to incorporate vocabulary from the word bank
 * __Notes/Investigation formats__: ideas, problem, observations, descriptions, and conclusions, etc
 * __Reflections:__ A record of the student’s thoughts and ideas, self-generated questions reflections, data analysis, reactions, and new knowledge.
 * __Inserts:__ Artifacts, photographs, etc.
 * __Writing frames:__ I noticed… I observed…My results showed…The variable I changed is..., or I think that…because…
 * __High Yield Strategies__: Similarities and Differences, Summarizing and note-taking, Non-linguistic representations, and Generating and testing hypotheses

How do your students take ownership in their notebooks?
I have students volunteer to read aloud their journal entries occasionally.