My ds is in the same boat but w/ Swimming Creatures. He enjoys the reading/experiments but we’ve dropped the notebook. He does like to draw but writing is not his favorite (copywork, yes, writing when there may be no end, not so much). I, too, wish I would’ve used just living books, experiments, nature study, narration in the elementary years, especially w/ my oldest ds. My ds that is still reading Swimming..has started Jack’s Insects and enjoys those notebooking pages much better. We are still taking it slow, one chapter a week, and extending the notebooking pages, no rush.
