Donna Young

Homeschooling moms who visit my handwriting printables often ask me if I know of a cursive font or a program that can be used to make handwriting practice sheets. The question varies, but this is what I usually tell the moms who write.
 

Capture Images of a Specimen through a Microscope
This is an addendum to Aphids & Crataegus. A couple of days ago I came across an unfortunate housefly. I retrieved the fly with tweezers so that I could have a closer look at it with my microscope. It was at that time that I thought others might […]

During the years that I have had a high schooler in the house, I used a folder system on my computer to collect all of the inevitable high school files. First, I created the one folder to hold them all and named the folder kids. Inside the kids folder, I created more folders, one for […]

Crataegus Mollis, My Tree of the Year
This year my tree to study is the Crataegus mollis, or that is what I currently believe it to be. The common name for Crataegus mollis is downy hawthorn or down hawthorn. I will refer to it as hawthorn. My hawthorn is a puny spindly tree. I will make […]

This is not a DY update because I have not added the new Excel Grades and Attendance files yet, I just wanted to talk about the files and the changes I have made to them. The first thing you might notice when you open the new version is that now the grades are reported in […]