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Simplify Your Homeschool with Notebooking

Less busywork • more learning

It’s time to ditch the busywork, boring books, and rigid curriculum.

Our notebooking resources help you unlock flexible, meaningful learning …one page at a time.

It’s time to ditch the busywork, boring books, and rigid curriculum.

Our notebooking resources help you unlock flexible, meaningful learning …one page at a time.

It’s time to ditch the busywork, boring books, and rigid curriculum.

Notebooking unlocks flexible, meaningful, and memorable learning …one page at a time.

It's time to break up with boring books, complicated curriculum, and days of drudgery.

The Problem...

During the first 6 years of homeschooling, I struggled through our school day, trying to check every box and keep up with grading. It was exhausting and unsustainable. I was in a constant state of self-doubt.

“Am I doing enough?
Am I ruining my kids?
How long can I keep this up?”

I wanted a more engaging and enriching homeschool. I craved cozy couch cuddles with inspiring books and conversations. How could I follow rabbit trails without the dark cloud of scope and sequences looming over me?

I WAS TIRED of...

I WANTED MORE THAN...

I WANTED TO GIVE UP...

That's when I found the SOLUTION...

NOTEBOOKING!

What is Notebooking?

Notebooking is a simple yet powerful way for children to document what they’re learning. Simply put, your children create a notebook of their learning.

They can use a spiral notebook, a composition book, a three-ring binder, or templates called notebooking pages (try our free notebooking pages here). When they are notebooking, they SHOW and TELL what they’ve learned in their own way, capturing their thoughts, ideas, and understanding.

No more boring worksheets or rigid assignments telling them what to learn or write—just a notebook filled with their own words, drawings, and reflections. With notebooking, you’re not chasing the perfect curriculum. It fits any subject, letting your kids dig into what really interests them.

This “read to learn, write to learn” notebooking approach naturally weaves writing into your child’s day. No need for a separate writing curriculum… unless you want one! Each child works at their own pace, reflecting on what they’re learning and sharing it in a way that makes sense to them.

No more worrying about falling behind—just meaningful learning that sticks.

Notebooking makes learning something your kids will actually look forward to. It turns everyday lessons into something memorable and enjoyable, freeing you from the grind of boring textbooks, complicated curriculum, and endless busywork.

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Welcome to NotebookingPages.com!

My name is Debra Reed, and I started NotebookingPages.com nearly twenty years ago to share the benefits of notebooking with other homeschool moms. As a mom who’s homeschooled all 10 of my children, I’m passionate about helping you make homeschooling more effective, manageable, and enjoyable.

Over the years, I’ve added thousands of notebooking pages, a lifetime membership, and two notebooking apps to help you easily incorporate and maintain notebooking in your homeschool and enjoy the journey with your children.

Debra Reed
NotebookingPages.com
Homeschool Mom of 10

Notebooking is the most simple, engaging, and effective way to make learning meaningful and memorable without complicated curriculum or dry, stuffy textbooks.

START NOW. IT'S FREE!

Download our free Quickstart Guide and Notebooking Pages.

With our clear, step-by-step instructions and ready-to-use notebooking pages, you’ll see just how simple it is to create engaging, meaningful learning experiences. Get started today!

Transform Your Homeschool Experience

Discover the simplicity of notebooking! Enjoy more confidence, success, and peace in your homeschool.

Confidence

Knowing you're doing the right things in your homeschool.

Success

Watching your children thrive and become lifelong learners.

Peace

Finding more margin in your day for non-homeschool things.

I am a homeschool mother of seven children. One has officially graduated and is now married with two children. I still have six children at home age 12 and under. I used to use a curriculum course that was geared for particular grade when I had just three children in school. As another child got older and joined in the school work fun, it started not being so fun for me. I couldn’t juggle being a high school teacher along with a 2nd grade, 1st grade, and Kindergarten teacher with a different set of books for each child. My husband and I decided to step back and evaluate the situation on what I could do to make it easier for me to teach a household of children but yet still give the children what we wanted them to learn. We turned to Unit Studies and Notebooking. We incorporate lapbooking, unit studies, and notebooking together for history and science/nature study. We still have a separate math book for each child and now utilize workboxes to give them some extra things such as piano, Spanish, etc. to round out their day.

We are currently using pages from Notebooking Pages for our science/nature study and incorporating when and where we can with our Mystery of History study. I like the fact that the pages are ready to go in a variety of styles from some with a photo and many journaling lines to a place for the child to adhere a photo or draw a photo and then include information or facts on lines provided. These pages take the guesswork out of it and save me time from searching the web for images.

In the past, we have used pages from Notebooking Pages in a study on the United States that I taught to a co-op of my children and five children of friends. They each had their own notebook and I printed out pages for them to fill in facts about each state as well as gave them the state birds coloring pages. All of which I found right here at Notebooking Pages.

I am very pleased with the quality and availability of the notebook pages from NotebookingPages.com. I highly recommend them to others who are either wanting to start notebooking with their child(ren) or are looking for quality pages. There’s no scour the internet for other sites or try to make your own, when you have many available right here on NotebookingPages.com!

Laura W.

This is our go to site for all our notebooking needs. My daughter especially loves the Publisher. This site motivates her to want to create and learn. She is retaining more information than ever, and is even working above grade level. We discovered Notebooking within months of beginning our homeschool journey, I couldn’t imagine educating any other way. My daughter wouldn’t want to learn in any other way.

Though my daughter has always been a good student, she wasn’t an independent thinker when it came to learning, unlike her older siblings. She just read what she was told, answered questions at the end of a chapter, and took a test. Then we began homeschooling in 6th grade, now approaching the end of 7th grade, my daughter actually makes out her own schedule of what she wants to read and Notebook on, she has taken initiative in her own education. She now has an interest in History, Classical Music, Art, Literature, and chooses topics most kids wouldn’t.

Like you, I had preconceived notions of the “perfect” homeschool education. I spent a great deal of money our first year on material she never even used. Then when I discovered notebooking, we invested in paper, art supplies, a comb binder, laminator and a library card. She is a happier student, I am a happier mom.

I think Notebooking should be an educational law. I apologize for my lengthy reply, but I have become not only passionate about Notebooking, but a huge advocate. Your site is easy to navigate, and offers a wide variety of subjects and topics. Though we follow a Charlotte Mason style curriculum, Notebooking truly will work with any style or methods of teaching.

Kimberly Hogan

What a blessing you are to so many homeschooling families! Notebooking is the answer to my prayers!

It seemed like our homeschool was lacking something. The workbooks were dry & boring or repetitive. I discovered your site a year ago, purchased a year membership & we started our notebooking adventure! We have slowly integrated it into our homeschool day & now we are ready to start using it with all of our subjects. It was hard to tell myself to put those workbooks & other materials we purchased out of site & stick with the notebooking. I can see the difference in my kids, they like school, they want to do more!

My children really enjoy being creative with their notebook pages. Notebooking is helping me to teach language arts to my children the natural way with out all the boring workbooks that sometimes bring tears. This method of homeschooling has inspired my children to learn, to explore, to be creative and to write!

My year membership just expired & I knew I had to purchase a lifetime membership this time around! I am looking forward to all of the awesome notebooks they will create in the future! The 3-D pages & the publisher look great! Purchasing a lifetime membership is one of the best investments we have made in our homeschool journey. Debra, thank you for all the love & time you put into this site to help the rest of us enjoy our homeschool journey!

Jenny K.

I had heard about notebooking for years, but I just KNEW my kids weren’t that into taking notes. As we read history, for instance, I would mention things they needed to write down, and the response was moaning, groaning, and slow motion, then messy, if any notes. Last week, for science, I needed a skeleton page to label, and we had been studying the Explorers. I prayed, talked to my husband, and took the plunge. We purchased the notebooking membership to save my time. I immediately printed off an Explorers page, a map, and 2 explorers pages each. The pages were met with colored pencils, immediate attention, and almost excitement. Even my 15 yo, who isn’t required with the younger few, sat down and did notes!! Lots of notes. They were engaged, asked spelling, dates, and listened. The 6yo kept up with the others, and had the cutest notes ever!! I’m surprised, and SOLD on notebooking 😉

Chris

I’m a homeschooling mom of 4 children who are various ages. One child has moderate/severe ADHD. We’ve tried various ways of learning and found that notebooking and lapbooking was the most successful and the best received. We’ve been using these wonderful notebooking pages for years! Each time we begin a new unit, I simply log in to print the needed pages and we are on our way to another great learning adventure. These pages have saved me so much time over the years and I am truly grateful for all of your efforts. I always recommend these pages to friends and family!

Dorcus

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