Notebooking is a great way to reinforce and track learning and give kids ownership of their progress. Completed notebooks are excellent review tools and a visual way to show topics covered throughout the year. Notebooks can be put together using maps, lab reports, scrapbook pages, worksheet pages, drawings, essays, timelines, and any other relevant work that your child creates.
Notebooking and lapbooking are closely related, but notebooking is a bit simpler. The information is inserted into 3-ring binders instead of the more elaborate lapbooks. Keep reading for information about the process of starting a notebook and some examples and ideas.
Notebooking Publisher
Notebooking Publisher is a time-saving tool for creating homeschool printables, notebooking pages, copywork pages, and more! It’s a homeschool worksheet generator but without the worksheets!
The drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to add text, images, and clip art to your projects.
Notebooking Resources
NotebookingPages
"From copywork to nature study, notebooking is a fun tool that captures all that we have learned about a particular topic and turns it into a concise, artful piece of work. The kids are always excited to share their notebooks with others & they love to look back over what they've created (& learned)... Whether starting with a well-planned, formatted notebooking page or a single piece of blank paper and a few supplies, each notebooking page becomes a dearly treasured & unique creation." NotebookingPages has a variety of resources available in various formats.
Daily Skill Building offers publisher-approved notebooks for the Julia Rothman Series and Master Books Notebook Companions with space for written narration, drawing, labeling, and more.
Crafty Classroom - Lots of printables for notebooks (geared toward younger students)
The Notebooking Fairy—This is an extensive site with many free printables on many subjects, as well as encouraging blog posts and ideas and the Notebooking Success eBook.
Highland Heritage Notebooking - Tamra of Highland Heritage details the basics of how to get started.
Half a Hundred Acre Wood Classical Notebook - Lots of free printables to create notebooks in classical homeschooling
Homeschooling with Journals - Journals can be used for anything explored in learning. Instead of preprinted templates, students enter all of their own content.
