Funschooling Journals

 Here's a link to their website: https://www.funschooling.com

These journals are sold on Amazon and Rainbow Resource.  I'm seeing some on ThriftBooks and AbeBooks, also.  

We bought three of their journals/books this year, which is why I am writing about them.  I really like these books and I would like to use more of them.  The books are very sturdy and the paper is good quality.  The artwork inside the books is cute.

The 7 year-old has the Funschooling with Imagination: The Storytelling Book.  It's a book with a scene on each page.  The scenes show stuffed animals and toys doing different things - climbing mountains, hiding in flowerpots, opening doors, etc.  The 7 year-old tells me a story about what's happening on each page and I write it down in a notebook.  We have a long story going in this notebook about all these stuffed animals.  It's a good creative writing exercise for younger children who can't write yet.

He also has the Curious Creatures Funschooling Notebook.  This is basically a blank journal with lines, bubbles, boxes and pictures to color.  He draws pictures in the boxes and tries to write a few words on the lines.  

The 14 year-old has the DIY Biology- Make Your Own Book.  It's also a blank journal with lines and boxes.  She takes notes from her biology studies and sketches diagrams, pictures of cells, microorganisms, etc in the boxes.  You can write definitions and notes on the lines. 

I wish Funschooling had more science notebooks, but it looks like they are adding more options over time. 

The only thing I don't like about the books is that some of them are very repetitive.