Notebooking Blog
Welcome to our notebooking blog, where you'll find practical tips, stories, and encouragement to help you make notebooking a natural part of your homeschool.
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.
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 youโve ever wondered, โHow much notebooking should we actually do each day?โ โ youโre 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 a stationary position.
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.
