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Handwriting by Style - DN

April 2012 - Handwriting
handwriting practice The 1/2 rule height version of this set "DN" is finished. It has 3 parts - letter practice, number writing practice, and word practice using Dolch words. The set also includes matching blank-top and 2-lesson blank handwriting rule paper.

All Calendars Index

April 2012 - Root
calendar index This list of links will include every page at donnayoung.org that has calendars - dated calendars, not blank ones. This list is as much for me as it is for you. I have to remember to update these calendars yearly and this list will help me check my files. I have also linked this page in the menu of the calendar section.

All Files - DY's Grades and Attendance

April 2012 - Homeschool Forms - Administrative
art index In all there are 15 different different G&A files. That's a lot. This page is designed to help you choose one. This page is also an example of an ad-free page. I am considering adding an option for viewing my website without outside ads with a subscription. If you like this idea, encourage me via my feedback form.

Homeschool Planner Index

April 2012 - Root
art index In the right sidebar of the homeschool planner index, I have added a list of links to all of the V Planner help files. Additionally, I added this same list of help file links to all of the V Planner pages.

DonnaYoung.org Art Index

April 2012 - Root
art index I've updated the art index. Now it includes all of the pages in the art section as of today. Not only did I update this file, I have added a link to the index to all of the art pages, so that you are always one click away for a listing of pages while in the art section.

DonnaYoung.org English Index

April 2012 - Root
art index I have been updating all of the pages in the English section and, while at this job, I added an English index to donnayoung.org. Not only did I add this file, I have added a link to the index to all of the English pages, so that you are always one click away for a listing of pages while in the English section.

Exploring Creation With Physical Science - The Lab Write-up

April 2012 - Science - Apologia
art index I've been sitting on this page for a while. I have bigger plans for the discussion of labs, but not of them are hatched. This page is currently what I would call minimally basic in the guidance that it offers.

Language Arts Forms

April 2012 - English
art index This page brings together forms that can be used for language arts. The two that I used the most are listed first. The first one, a planner, can be for any subject that has three divisions. I made it for my children's high school English classes because the bulk of the plans for each day were in three parts --...

V Planner V2.5 Is Available

March 2012 in Homeschool Planner
V Planner V2.5 is available. V Planner is an XLS file and requires a compatible program such as MS Excel. Access to the file is gained from YoungMinds 2011+. Links to V Planner new/updated help files: Videos, S-Sheet Overview by Columns, Planners, Reports.

2012 High School Diploma

March 2012 - Homeschool Planner
new diplomaI've added new typeable PDF high school diploma for 2012.

New Lab Sheets

March 2012 - Science
new lab sheetsI've added new labs sheets and I updated the lab sheet web page.

Math Bingo - Addition and Subtraction

November 2011 - Math
addition bingoThe bingo games on this page are: Addition Bingo and Multiplication Bingo. There are six cards per printed sheet of paper. The cards are small, measuring just over 3" by 3.5".

40 New Math Drill Sheets

November 2011 - Math
40 New Math Drill SheetsI've added 20 new addition and 20 new multiplication drill sheets.

Animals of the World Booklet

November 2011 - Art
Animals of the World BookletAnimals of the World is a printable 32 page booklet. The student is to list animals and draw them in each of the 4 page sections for each of the 7 continents.

Drawing Assignment Themes

November 2011 - Art
Drawing Assignment ThemesA list of 21 themes for drawing assignments.

Desk Size Planner: Dated Timer

November 2011 - Household
Personal Sized TimerBasic Information: This is a timer for the desk-sized personal planner. The timer begins at 6 AM and ends at 9 PM. Each hour is divided into 15 minute increments. After 9 PM the remaining 3 lines are unlabeled.

New Set of Ruled Filler Paper - "Standard"

October 2011 - Handwriting
New Set of Ruled Filler Paper - This is a new set of ruled filler paper. I call it standard filler paper because I used 3 standard rule sizes to measure the space between the lines. The sizes are wide rule, medium rule (college ruled), and narrow rule. To make this paper a genuine set, I made four styles of each rule - fully ruled, blank top, ruled on left side, and ruled on right side (with other side being blank).

2012 Half-Sized Household Planner

September 2011 - Household
2012 Half-Sized Household Planner Half-Sized Household Block Planner for 2012 is online. This year I added two extra December files, a matching ruled paper file, and a back file for the 12-month calendars file. The 2011 files were moved to a new page.

Drawing With Children, Lesson 2

August 2011 - Art
Drawing With Children, Lesson 2 When I redo my website, like I have been doing this year, I try to improve parts of it. In this case, I improved the Drawing with Children overview and lesson plan pages. Lesson 2 is the most changed, so it gets to be linked.

51 New One Hundred Numbers Charts

August 2011 - Math
To the 100-number charts page, I added 51 new printable files.

Family Boot Camp

August 2011 - Homeschooling
Someone wrote me and asked about my Family Boot Camp today. I described it at my blog 2007, but that article went missing, which is a shame because the comments were lost as well.

A lesson Plan for LifePac Electives Art Unit 4 - Perspective

May 2011 - Art
A lesson Plan for LifePac Electives Art Unit 4 - Perspective Last May I added basic lesson plans for AOP Electives Art Unit 4 - perspective. You can find it under Art > Drawing > Perspective AND under Art > Books > AOP Electives Art

homeschool planner
The Homeschool Planner is you, you are the planner. As the homeschool planner, you will put together all the different parts that make homeschooling possible in your household and make homeschooling proceed each day with as little chaos as possible. Parental issues aside, there are things about homeschooling that are easily within your powers to subdue, which I just simply call "being prepared". That is what this section Homeschool Planner is about. Within these pages I've written articles about the various aspects of planning homeschool and I provide printable planners.

Pictured here is a two page spread from our homeschool planner from 1996. During my first few years of homeschooling when my children were both young and shared some subjects, I favored a 2-page 5x7 grid. The planner page is dotted with little happy stickers. The stickers represent 100%. I think the stickers were more for me than for them in our homeschool planner - they had their own sticker books.

Homeschool Planner is Organized in These Parts

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The links shown here are also in the 2nd row of the navigation menu that is at the top of this page when you are browsing the Homeschool Planner section. These links are the "home pages" of the various sections in Homeschool Planner. The links remain active as long as you are in "Homeschool Planner." If you go to a different part of donnayoung.org, Art, for example, you will not see these links, instead, when you are at Art, you will see the art sections in the second row of links.

Information: Discusses the different types of planners, the pros and cons of subject planner and the weekly planner and the types of forms to use in the planners. The articles in planner guide are: Essential Homeschool Planner Forms | How to Make a Homeschool Weekly Planner by Donna Young | Homeschool Subject Planner | Homeschool Journal Planner | Homeschool Timer | Do You Need a Planner | Over the Years, Donna Young's Homeschool Planner

Information: Discusses how to get started with planning, how to schedule a day, and how to make simple lesson plans. This section How to Plan contains a few sections of its own. Some of the main articles and sections are: The Four Steps of Homeschool Planning | How To Make Simple Lesson Plans for Homeschool | (Surviving) The Curriculum Fair | Scheduling Tips for Homeschool | Using Your Encyclopedia to Make Lessons for Homeschooling

Homeschool Planner - V Planner

v planner[An XLS File] There has been a great deal of interest in the V Planner. Most of the interest has revolved around how it handles lesson plans - whether it can do "this." I designed the V Planner to do things in a way that I would have liked, of course I am retired now. The V Planner combines the best features of subject planners and weekly planners. Go to the V Planner's home page and read about it.


Printables: Printables: The section called Lists has printable forms that deal with lists such as library books, reading logs, checklists, curriculum shopping list, goals, and etc.

Printables: Printables: Forms in the Administrative section deal with sorting out things such as attendance, grades, course of study, calendars, etcetera.

Printables: Lesson Plan Forms - click each tab to read about each type

  • Index
  • Weekly
  • Term & Subject
  • By Columns
  • Daily
  • Row
  • Journal
  • Unit
  • Excel Weekly

Browse Donna Young's Lesson Planners by Groups, Types, or Styles

Homeschool Weekly Planner

This "browsing" area is by far, incomplete. My apologies for that; it's just that I have this whole website to work on and projects take a while to complete. But for now, if you need a planner that is arranged by block width and height, you are in luck, sort of. I have grid planners grouped in that way here 5x7 Grid Homeschool Lesson Plan Forms and here 5x8 Grid Homeschool Lesson Plan Forms. Both of them have the snowman planner. And the 5x7 page has a planner that I designed after the planner that I used for both of my children the first 3 years of our homeschool 2-page planner with 5 x 7 grid

Donna Young's Home School Weekly Lesson Planners

Homeschool Weekly Planner

Weekly Planners are incredibly popular and for good reason - your plans for one week are right there on one or two sheets of paper, maybe one sheet of paper for each student, but they are still right there. Pictured here is a two-page weekly planner and those can be used for 2 children or more as long as you have enough room in the blocks. Most of my weekly planners are the one-page type. The planners on this page are not the only weekly planners at donnayoung.org, be sure to look at the Donna Young's Homeschool Planner Sets before deciding which planners to use.

Term and Subject Homeschool Planners

Homeschool Subject Planner

What are Term and Subject Homeschool Planners? Those are some of my favorite types of planners and term planners and subject planners are pretty much the same thing, the difference walks in when they are specialized, but what they all have in common is that term and subject planners are for one subject [or class]. While I have more Term and Subject Homeschool Planners than those shown on this webpage, the ones shown are the basic types - a Quarter Planner, a Semester Planner, a 6-Week planner, a Science planner, and an English class planner. Be sure to look at Donna Young's Homeschool Planner Sets because many of those will have coordinating subject planners.

Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns

Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns

The Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns are nice in that they are interchangeable without looking odd; you can choose whichever block, ruled, row arrangement that I have to suit your needs; and the Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns are available in doc format. These planners are actually a set and are spread over several web pages. Each page is named after the number of columns that files have on the page. Homeschool Planners with One Column | Homeschool Planners with Two Columns | Homeschool Planners with Three Columns | Homeschool Planners with Four Columns | Homeschool Planners with Five Columns. I included ruled paper with the column planner set: Ruled Paper with Two Columns | Ruled Paper with Three Columns

Daily Schedule Lesson Planners

homeschool timer daily planner

The planners on this page are for those homeschoolers who like to make a daily homeschool schedule. The first planner is a timer and the second is a daily planner. The daily planner comes in 3 colors- blue, pink, and green. Other planners that could be used for a daily planner are found in Homeschool Lesson Planners by Columns and Homeschool Lesson Planners with Rows

Homeschool Lesson Planners with Rows

journal

What are Row Planners? I'm making this up as I go along - a row planner is a lesson planner that has rows instead of blocks. Now you know. A row planner can be used as a daily planner or as a weekly planner. When used as a weekly planner, a week of lesson plans for one subject are stuffed into one row and it could be as simple as Math: Complete Lessons 6-10.

Homeschool Journals, Lined Paper

journal journal journal

Homeschool Journal is for the most part lined paper, some of the paper is decorated in some way and some of the paper has a distinct homeschool purpose. The printable journals are sorted in to four sections as follows: Journals with Borders | Decorated Journals | Journals with Titles | Plain Journals. Of course any of the journals can be used as lined school paper.

Homeschool Unit Study Planner

unit planner

Many years ago an online friend named Sumi outlined how she planned unit studies. From her method, I put this planner together and while I added to it, the planner would not have been possible without Sumi. The file is available in doc and rtf formats.

Excel Weekly Planner

excel weekly planner excel weekly planner 2 pages

Excel Weekly Planner requires a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice. The planner allows you to create 6 weekly dated planners and a dated 3-week objectives list page. The planner can be personalized with up to 9 subjects and a planner title. You have a choice of a one-page or two-page planner. The two-page was a special request and the two=page version could be used for two children. YoungMinds, the Site-CD has a 12-week version of the one-page Excel Weekly Planner

Printables: Forms that you may print for your lesson plans. Please see also Sets [Planner Sets]


Printables: Information and Printables: In the High School section I wrote about the basic steps to planning high school and I provide printable high school forms.

Printables: Printables: The vaguely named section, Extra, has forms that might come in handy such as notebooking templates, grids, cover sheets, and homeschool group printables.

Printables: Sets - Coordinated Planner Sets

Printables: Groups of files that have something in common. Sets will also have matching planner sets, some permanent and some temporary.

The Lovely Alexia Homeschool Planner Alexia Homeschool Planner
Alexia is available in several formats, pdf, doc, rtf, and odt. The font used in Alexia is also available for download.

Colonial Planner for Household and Homeschool Colonial Planner for Household & Homeschool
The Colonial set is probably the largest set that I have. This set is online as PDF's.

Garamond Homeschool Planner Garamond Homeschool Planner
Garamond Planner can be used for any year, but this set is featured as the high school planner at donnayoung.org

Marble Homeschool Planner Marble Homeschool Planner
Marble is a pretty planner that I made 2001 or so. The Marble Planner is small; it has six basic homeschool forms.

Papyrus Planner for Homeschool and Household Papyrus Planner for Homeschool and Household
Papyrus planner has household and homeschool planners and includes a matching calendar.

Homeschool Portfolio Lesson Planner Homeschool Portfolio Lesson Planner
Portfolio Planner has 7 basic homeschool forms plus a matching calendar.

Homeschool Portfolio Lesson Planner Portfolio X - Generate a Filled Homeschool Lesson Planner
Fill in the name, days, and subjects at Portfolio X, click a couple of buttons and you'll be presented with a filled Portfolio Planner.

Homeschool Portfolio Lesson PlannerSeasonal Homeschool Lesson Planners [not much here]
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docMicrosoft Word Homeschool Forms This is a zipped download
xlsDonna Young's XLS Files A list of some of them


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