Using written narration and fun prompts, Bible Road Trip™ Notebooking Journals will give your kids just enough structure to help them confidently take notes on their Bible study.
Bible Notebooking Journals
Bible Road Trip™ is an engaging, fun, three-year Bible survey curriculum for preschool through high school. That means that if you start in preschool, you can take your child all the way through the Bible five times by the time he or she graduates from high school. The Bible Road Trip™ Year One curriculum covers the books of law and history (Genesis to Esther) in 32 weeks, at five levels, for preschool to high school.
Take advantage of the Bible Road Trip™ Notebooking Journals and Bible Road Trip™ Memory Verse Card Sets to maximize your child’s learning–and fun!
Notebooking is a time-tested tool that develops and strengthens:
- Higher thinking skills
- Handwriting
- Research skills
- Pre-writing skills
- Comprehension
- Retention
The structured Bible Road Trip™ Notebooking Journals are available at three levels:
- Lower Grammar (Grades 1-3)
- Upper Grammar (Grades 4-6)
- Dialectic (Grades 7-9)
- High School Students can keep their own journals, or they can use the Dialectic level.
Each Notebooking Journal contains many beautiful full-color artworks from artistic masters of eras past — such as Van Gogh, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt, as well as photographs of the weekly country shared by photographers around the world via the Creative Commons license.
Out of respect for varying beliefs regarding iconography, every effort was made to select artwork that was not only modest, but also did not include representations of Christ, the Father, the Holy Spirit, angels, demons, Christophanies or Theophanies.
The structured Notebooking Journal has room for:
- Copying the weekly memory verse
- Taking notes about each book of the Bible studied
- Several pages of notes about the weekly lessons
- A page to list prayer concerns for the country or people group studied that week.
- Each Notebooking Journal has line widths and writing space appropriate for your students in the leveled grades.
How to Notebook (and What is Notebooking?)
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Teach Your Kids the Bible with Bible Road Trip™
Bible Road Trip™ is a three-year Bible survey curriculum. Take your family through the Bible five times from preschool to high school.
To help you get the most out of your studies, Bible Road Trip™ has an array of coordinating weekly activities:
- Researching the section of the Bible you’re studying
- Reading and discussing the Bible
- Memorizing Scripture
- Notebooking about your studies
- Praying for the nations
- Suggestions for further study
- Crafting about what you’ve learned
- For your older students: A project to share what they’ve learned
- Bible Road Trip™ also has some great tools you can use along with it, such as:
- Notebooking Journals for grades 1-9. Want a structured notebooking journal for high school? Don’t hesitate to use the Dialectic journal (grades 7-9).
- Bible Memory Card Sets for all five levels of study, preschool to high school. These are available in both ESV and KJV.
Grab your Bible Road Trip™ Year One Sample Pack. You’ll get:
- The Bible Road Trip™ Parent / Teacher Guide.
- The first three weeks of the curriculum for all five learning levels. Week Three is where we really dive into the Bible and begin to our systematic study. Week Three will give you a good feel for the rest of the curriculum.
- The first three weeks of the Bible Memory Card sets for all five levels, in ESV and KJV.
- The first three weeks of each of the three leveled Notebooking Journals.
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Thank you for this. We won’t be using the notebooking pages at present as we are just finishing Judges, this week. However, we may well use them next year. We really appreciate your work with the Bible Road Trip.
SarahElisabeth,
I feel SO bad that I didn’t get the notebook pages out at the same time! Next year, I plan to publish the pages each week. I’m thrilled that Bible Road Trip is working for you. 🙂
~ Danika
Wow, I LOVE these!! I happen to have a LG, UG, and D this year (say a prayer for me, I’m in over my head!!), so these are perfect!!
I was checking my stats and saw someone had followed this post over to my blog. Thanks for including me on your blogroll.
If I didn’t already have a Bible plan with our kids, I know I’d be eating yours up. 🙂
Blessings.
Cheri,
I love your blog! Thanks for all your hard work. I’m glad to hear you’re going through the Bible with your kids. That’s fantastic!
~ Danika
Where are grades 9-12?
Arianna,
In the Bible Road Trip structure, grade 9 is the Dialectic level (grades 7-9). For the Rhetoric level (grades 10-12), students will be taking notes, and then creating a blog post or video post, or teaching a group of students (according to the decision of the family). I didn’t want to limit Rhetoric students in their notetaking, as I feel that is a really important skill for high school students. However, if you’d like to use the Dialectic pages for your high school student(s), I think they would work really well. You may want to have them add regular pages if they wish to take extra notes.
Thanks for asking. I hope Bible Road Trip (and the notebook pages) bless your family.
~ Danika
Why do you say “Just as a note, some of the notebooking pages will have paintings of Bible characters/scenes, but I will be very careful to avoid posting any pictures of Christ or angels. I hope that answers any concerns you may have over the content?” I notice in your author information you specifically mention discipling children to follow Jesus, so why are you avoiding posting pictures of him? I am curious because I am looking for a Christ based bible education for my children. At first I was very excited about your blog, but this quote I found as I was looking through your materials has me a little confused. Thanks for your help!!
Melanie,
My exclusion of paintings that include Christ or angels is an attempt to live according to Romans chapter 14.
There are a number of Christians who feel strongly that pictures of Jesus are a violation of the 2nd Commandment. Exodus 20:4-6 states: “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
In fact, this has been a battle throughout Church history. People have died over the conviction that iconography is either necessary to worship, or is idolatry. I do not wish to be involved in this battle in any way. There are Christians who would not use the curriculum because it has a painting of Jesus on the notebook pages. It wouldn’t matter that it is painted by Leonardo da Vinci. I respect that conviction.
Angels are a little more complicated for me. We don’t know what angels look like. We can surmise from Scripture that there are a number of different kind of angels — that they are terrifying (how many places do we hear one tell a human “Do not be afraid”?), that Seraphim and Cherubim look nothing like people, and that some can appear as human or do look like humans (we just don’t know). We also can see from Scripture that THE Angel of the Lord appears to be Christ appearing before men.
I don’t include angels for two reasons: 1) I don’t want to offend people who see pictures of angels as a violation of the 2nd Commandment (as some are Christophanies). 2) I am a little put off myself by pictures of angels as they rarely seem to hold to Scripture’s descriptions.
Just as a side note, the DVDs I recommend don’t hold to this standard. What’s in the Bible with Buck Denver volume 10 does appear to picture Jesus (I haven’t seen it yet), and Drive Thru History uses artwork liberally.
Melanie, I don’t want to offend our more conservative brothers and sisters. I want to point children to Jesus and to Scripture without throwing any stumbling blocks in their way. And I want to be really up front about the fact that I am taking widely held convictions about the 2nd Commandment into account. Personally, I am on the fence. You won’t find any paintings of Jesus in my home, but you’ll find a whole lot of commentaries, Bibles and DVDs. Some have pictures of Jesus in them.
Anyway, that’s the long answer. I hope it helps. The focus of Bible Road Trip is on Scripture. I am a Christian, and I hold to orthodox (biblically approved, real Christian) beliefs.
Please let me know if I can answer any other concerns for you.
Respectfully,
Danika
Thank you Danika for explaining your decision to not include pictures of angels or Jesus. I have been reviewing your curriculum and I am excited to use it with my children. I have been searching for a curriculum exactly like yours. Thank you for all of your hard work, and for making such a valuable tool available for us to use free of charge. May God bless you and your endeavor. Thanks again!!
Melanie,
Thanks for the reply! I’m glad you think it will work for you. 🙂
~ Danika
Ahh! I am jumping in on the road trip! I think this will be so good for my kids and me! I have a question, and I know it really doesn’t matter, but I am a fill in the blanks kind of person, so must know so that we do it “right.” On the notebook pages, there is a printout of a scroll page with printing lines beneath it. Is the scroll for artwork and are the lines for the verse, or both for the verse, or what? Thanks!
Also, if I just choose to print as I go, three years from now, this will still be around, right? I just have a hard time remembering web pages that I visited a year ago, not to mention three years ago! I have difficulty imagining three years down the road.
Melinda,
The scroll is for artwork, and the lines are for the verse. 🙂 I’m a fill-in-the-blanks person, too. But you’ll want to be flexible with the notebooking pages. The kids should be able to express themselves and work at their own level, which means some pages may not get filled out all the way, or at all — depending on the time you have that week. They are there for the kids to record what stuck with them from the reading. When we started notebooking, I had to help the kids come up with a sentence or two. Now, they run out of space. 🙂
Thank you for providing an exceptional Bible study curriculum! It is just what I need to help teach my children. You are such a blessing!
Danika, thank you for creating a homeschooling/family time program that I can use for my multi-leveled family. I adopted special needs children and this program makes it easy to modify to each child. I am actually going to do the program with them at the 7-9 level (only because I don’t have time to do a more complex study AND teach them! 🙂 ) It’s going to be quite the adventure making this journey together. I also thank you for your endeavor to make the program user friendly to many facets of Christian beliefs. I think it’s easier to find a core curriculum and add to it than it is to have to fine-tooth one to weed elements out of it.
I can’t wait to get to the Books of Law and History!
(I’m recommending your curriculum to a friend who is looking for a Bible program for her children. THIS is perfect, I think!
God bless,
Alethea
Hi Danika, Thank you so much for this product! I am trying to download the notebooking pages, but every time I click on the link it brings me to an error page. Could you check this out, please?
Thanks!
Hi, Colleen. If you’re using Microsoft Edge or Explorer as your browser when you download, you’ll get an error message. That’s a Microsoft issue and doesn’t have anything to do with the site. Can you try using a different browser like Chrome, Safari, or FireFox? Thanks! Danika