Working in the Grade 2 room this year (2014) we've done a junior version of Writers' Notebooks called 'Seed Books' . The major focus has been to have the children thinking about and collecting 'seeds' for what they could write about. Then developing vocabulary that they might need when writing about these ideas. As with the older kids, I spent some time creating my own seed book as a model for the kids. Didn't take long. Sample pages below.
This is the doc I used to help create my own.