One of my family's favorite ways to incorporate more writing into our homeschool days is with notebooking (aka journaling). My kids enjoy it because they get to choose what topics they write about and they can add sketches and graphics. I like it because it's simple, requires very little planning, and it encourages my kids to write without any fuss from me. How Notebooking Works Notebooking is essentially just journaling. A notebook serves as a place to record observations, opinions, short stories, sketches, diagrams, and interesting facts. My kids each have several notebooks, each one for a different subject or topic. In our nature journals we record sketches and descriptions of interesting plants and animals we come across on our outdoor adventures. We have reading notebooks where we record notes and sketches about books we're reading. My oldest daughter loves art, so she has an artist notebook where she records notes about famous artists and different art styles. She a