Homeschool Notebooking with Schoolnest Notebooks

One aspect of the Charlotte Mason method that I have brought into my homeschool is notebooking. My children have been keeping notebooks in some capacity since we began homeschooling. I started with using binders for our notebooking needs, but this year I decided to try something a little different. I decided to use the notebooks from Schoolnest beginning this year. Let me show you how we are using them.

Schoolnest Notebooks

Schoolnest notebooks come in a range of styles. There are history timeline notebooks, history and science notebooks, planning notebooks, nature notebooks, commonplace notebooks, and nearly any other type of notebook you can imagine.

The notebooks are fairly sturdy and seem to be made well enough to stand up to my sometimes rather rough children.

These notebooks come in almost every color of the rainbow and several different designs. On their website they say their notebooks are for learning creatively. Each notebook that I purchased has 100 sheets.

All of the notebooks begin with a Table of Contents section, and the history and science notebooks have a few extra things in the front before you get to the spreads.

How we are using Schoolnest Notebooks in our homeschool

I bought each of my kids in sixth grade or younger a notebook with their grade on the cover. These are notebooks I plan to switch out every year. We are using these notebooks for a variety of activities including any of our language arts activities, spelling, and copywork.

Down below you can see an example of scripture copywork on the lined side with the date and an illustration on the dot grid side. This is an example of the fourth grade notebook.

In the photo below, my first grader narrated his literature piece to me and I wrote the narration for him. You may be able to note the lines in his first grade notebook are much larger and appropriate for his age.

Our history and science notebooks are to be used until they are filled, so they could be used for multiple years.

Down below is an example of the history notebook. It has a graph on one side and a place to make an illustration and narration on the other side. I do eventually plan to also use the graph side to paste in other pages that I print for the kids that are related to the subject.

I do write my first grader’s narrations for him, and he does an illustration to the best of his ability. I ask my older kids to write their own narrations, but sometimes I do help them with the writing when they are really resistant to it.

I really love the cover of the science notebook. It looks so cool.

The front of the science notebook has the Scientific Method in it.

It also includes a spread similar to the history notebooks. We are using the science notebooks in the same way, except for science subjects. I like to have my kids illustrate our experiments and then write a little bit about what they’ve learned.

I have really enjoyed incorporating Schoolnest Noteboks into our homeschool routine. I have found they are much more portable than bulky binders, which is so helpful when we are homeschooling on the go!

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