How to Start Notebooking in Your Homeschool
Starting notebooking in your homeschool doesn’t have to be complicated. Learn how to make time for it, choose the right topics, and keep writing stress-free.
Learn More About Notebooking
Practical notebooking tips, how-tos, and homeschool encouragement — for families who want more learning and less busywork.
There’s a Better Way to Homeschool
I struggled with homeschool overwhelm for six years before I found our cure. The answer was not a new method, a better curriculum, or a more organized schedule.
Bible & Character Study Notebooking Pages
Pages for Bible readings, character traits, reflections, and narrations.
Artists, Composers, and Poets Notebooking Pages
Pages for picture study, composer study and poetry study.
Famous People Notebooking Pages
Biography pages for recording key facts, contributions, and narrations.
Geography & Maps Notebooking Pages
Maps and geography pages for countries, states, provinces, and regions.
History & Timeline Notebooking Pages
Notebooking pages for narrations, timelines, maps, and historical topics.
Holiday Notebooking Pages
Pages for recording traditions, history, and reflections tied to holidays.
Literature & Word Study Notebooking Pages
Pages for narrations, vocabulary, quotes, and literary responses.
Science & Nature Study Notebooking Pages
For observations, narrations, experiments, diagrams, and nature study.
Science & Nature Study Notebooking Pages
For observations, narrations, experiments, diagrams, and nature study.
Literature & Word Study Notebooking Pages
Pages for narrations, vocabulary, quotes, and literary responses.
Holiday Notebooking Pages
Pages for recording traditions, history, and reflections tied to holidays.
History & Timeline Notebooking Pages
Notebooking pages for narrations, timelines, maps, and historical topics.
Geography & Maps Notebooking Pages
Maps and geography pages for countries, states, provinces, and regions.
Famous People Notebooking Pages
Biography pages for recording key facts, contributions, and narrations.
Artists, Composers, and Poets Notebooking Pages
Pages for picture study, composer study and poetry study.
Bible & Character Study Notebooking Pages
Pages for Bible readings, character traits, reflections, and narrations.
What is Notebooking?
Notebooking is a simple but powerful way for kids to process, share, and record what they’re learning — from any source.
Science & Nature Study Notebooking Pages
For observations, narrations, experiments, diagrams, and nature study.
Literature & Word Study Notebooking Pages
Pages for narrations, vocabulary, quotes, and literary responses.
Holiday Notebooking Pages
Pages for recording traditions, history, and reflections tied to holidays.
History & Timeline Notebooking Pages
Notebooking pages for narrations, timelines, maps, and historical topics.
Geography & Maps Notebooking Pages
Maps and geography pages for countries, states, provinces, and regions.
Famous People Notebooking Pages
Biography pages for recording key facts, contributions, and narrations.
Bible & Character Study Notebooking Pages
Pages for Bible readings, character traits, reflections, and narrations.
What Does Notebooking Look Like?
Come take a peek inside the notebooks of our Lifetime Members. You will see a variety of pages for various subjects as well as pages created with our Notebooking Publisher app.
How Much Notebooking Should We Do in Our Homeschool?
If you’ve ever wondered, “How much notebooking should we actually do each day?” — you’re not alone! This was one of my big questions when we first started.
Can we use Notebooking for Math?
Here’s how we use notebooking for math in our homeschool. It’s super helpful for my dyslexic son who struggles with abstract math concepts.
What Do We Write and How Much?
Does writing have this effect on any of your children? As soon as you tell them to open their notebook, it begins. Their eyes bounce around like the ball in a pinball machine. It’s impossible to focus on the paper before them. Their once comfortable chair betrays them. It’s impossible to find …
Our Language Arts Notebook
Notebooking topical studies like history, science, Bible, & even literature are easy to do. I get asked many times, “How do you notebook language arts?”.
Notebooking with a Structured Writing Plan
It is less stressful for most kids to talk about a topic than to write about it. When beginning notebooking, I ask the kids for immediate oral narrations rather than a written summary or report.
How to Do Copywork in Your Homeschool
What is Copywork? Copywork is copying a piece of well-written work, from any variety of sources, onto paper or into a notebook.
How to do notebooking with younger children?
I do not start formal notebooking until my children are proficient with 3 skills. By “formal notebooking” I mean creating notebooks for specific subjects/studies that include written narrations, reports, summaries, etc.
How to use the ProClick Binding Machine to bind your own notebooks
You can create your own sketchbook, planner, journal, or other type of notebook. You can also snip the spines to make smaller size notebooks like my kids' quiet time journals pictured below.
Part 1: The Doom & Gloom of Homeschooling
Homeschooling wasn’t working out like I thought it would (or should). Each day was a struggle. It felt more like a to-do list instead of a blessing or privilege.
Part 2: The Three Homeschooling Myths
The 3 homeschool traps that kept me from finding the freedom and confidence I desired for our homeschooling. These traps are our own doing and can keep us stuck for years!
Part 3: Victory over the Busywork
I was no longer trapped by a method, a curriculum, or an ideal schedule. It was at this turning point that I took the advice of another homeschool mom.
