The 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".
I've added 20 new addition and 20 new multiplication drill sheets.
Animals 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.
A list of 21 themes for drawing assignments.
Basic 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.
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).
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.
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.
To the 100-number charts page, I added 51 new printable files.
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.
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
V Planner V.2 is available. V Planner is an XLS file and requires a compatible program such as MS Excel. Access to the file is gained from 
While getting the site-cd updated for the V Planner, I noticed the nifty "Surrounded by a Calendar" row planners were about to become outdated, so I made a whole lot of them - up to 2025 for the Site-Cd; you'll find a more modest amount online.
A few days ago, I took a walk in the woods behind our home to see what was going on there. I came across some lily of the valley plants that were in bloom. ... 
This item, the Homeschool XLS Term Dates Calculator, is an xls file that requires a spreadsheet program. With this file, go through 5 steps and on the 6th step, the calculator will return school term days.
In the section Handwriting > By Styles there are 52 new cursive handwriting lessons in a style similar to Zaner-Bloser.
The site-cd, YoungMinds, is available for sale after having been unavailable because of our home repairs.
This is a new Manuscript Handwriting Set. The letter style is similar to Zaner-Bloser. There are over 500 worksheets & the handwriting rule is approximately 14 mm tall.
DonnaYoung.org has 62 more manuscript handwriting animations. You can see them starting here: 
Oh WOW! Something new in Homeschooling. It's a how-to page that tells you how I made the subcategory and category divider pages for the half-sized nature journal / field book!
At "Game Cards" you will find a whole slew of printable game cards in many sizes, you will even find round ones. To make your cards nice, I've included printable back designs and some cards which have a fancy border.
Articles
The links below will take you within this section as well as all over my web site. To return to this page, use your back button or if you have been exploring the web site, use the Homeschooling link that is at the top of every page on my web site. The link will not be blue if you are in a different section, but it will still bring you back to this page. 
Composition Book Handwriting Lessons - Handwriting
It tells how to set up a composition book for homemade lessons. I did this as a cursive handwriting refresher for my youngest child.
What is Weighing Grades? - Homeschooling » Articles
Just what is that anyway?
Homeschooling Musts for the Kids - Homeschooling » Articles
This is a few pictures of my cat getting ready for his school day and being a good listener and an overall good student. 
Why Teach at Home and Who Are Homeschoolers - Homeschooling
Who are we? We could be anyone, that is about all you will learn at the link above.
How to Make a Sticker Book - Homeschooling » Articles
I used sticker books, among other methods, for positive reinforcement when the children were young.
The Doom of A Homeschool Schedule - Homeschooling » Articles
Don't let the title fool you, homeschool schedules are good.
Nature Journal - Homeschooling » Science
Page one of several pages showing pictures of one of our nature journals.
Homemade Handwriting Lessons: Manuscript and Cursive - Handwriting
Those two pages have information that require using a word processor and a font, both can be free, the fonts are, the word process could be one that you already have or one that you download.
Family Boot Camp - Homeschooling » Articles
I wrote about the boot camp I did on occasion and here is a quote- "Family boot camp is a goal oriented event that lasts for 5 days or more. Boot camp must have clear objectives."
An Idea to Study Words and Make a Word Book - English
I wanted my children to understand the tiny differences between words of similar meaning and came up with "The Word Book". This idea is spread over two pages, An Idea to Study Words- the idea behind the book and Make a Word Book- the "How-To" with printable files and instructions.
New to Homeschooling
Are you are a new or somewhat new homeschooler seeking ideas and information about getting organized? If so I will link some of the pages that might be useful to you.
Homeschool Planning
When homeschooling, you will make all sorts of plans. Below is a list of things you might need to plan.
You will decide and organize what your children will study each year, unless you use a boxed curriculum [
What is boxed].
Planning is sort of a tiered beast where you will: 
decide what to study, break it into lessons, decide how often to study it, will it be slotted by time of day or will it be anytime during the day, and then the lessons can be recorded in a planner. This is not as hard as it sounds. In some cases, you will purchase a book with lessons, math is a good example, and simply do the next lesson when it is time for the subject.
You will make lesson plans, unless you buy curriculum that can come with pre-made plans and you buy those too.
Making lesson plans does not have to be a tedious task. I've written several how-to's showing simple plans and expanded plans and they all start on this page: How To Make Simple Lesson Plans for Homeschool
It's a good idea to make menu plans
It really is a good idea, and one that may not happen, but give it a try to see if menu plans will save you time and money. Menu planners can be printed from: Household Planners For the Kitchen
It's a good idea to make chore plans
If you already have the chores divided up between family members, then you are all set in this department. If not try it, make some repeating chore lists for your children to see how that works out. In my case, my children were more likely to do household chores if the chores were written on a list. Household Planner Refills and if you have MS Excel, you might want to try my XLS Chore Chart Maker.
Chances are, you will continue to take care of things that you currently take care of such as appointments.
For that you will need anything from a simple monthly calendar to some complicated electronic gizmo of your choice. I can help with the calendar and household planner
Making a Homeschool Planner Book
From donnayoung.org you can print a free homeschool planner book. I don't know why anyone would buy one, but I have linked Commercial Planners as well. Back to free- I have all kinds of homeschool planner forms, after all; I am a genuine homeschooler and I know what I liked having in my planner.
- Commercial Planners - A page of linked commercial planners
- Planner Guide - Several pages describing homeschool planner types
- Lists - Forms for lists of things such as books. According to feedback, I do not have enough of these
- Administrative - Your the administrator, you know what's here, right?
- Lesson Plan Forms - Forms, all types, for your lesson plans
- High School - High school forms, suggestions, and lists
- Extra - Notebooking forms, grids, cover sheets, and forms for your homeschool meetings
- Sets - Be sure to look here before printing a planner. This is where I place matching sets.
- Homeschool V Planner An XLS file
Encouraging Children to Write
The writing activities that I made up for my children may or may not help you with your reluctant writer. My children didn't seem reluctant to write, but on the other hand; I used my home made writing lessons for them when they were young and they always enjoyed doing them. I've put them online and you can read about them at:
Ease Into Writing: Timed Writing - This was a back to school activity that the children did the first few weeks, but it can be used any time. Timed Writing is also posted at my blog
Who Needs an Illustration, Sentence Building Activity One - We did this activity every year for a while. It seems ridiculously easy, but it incorporates dictionary skills, vocabulary, and grammar. The beginning sentence structure used in activity one is: Subject | Transitive Verb | Direct Object.
Who Needs an Illustration, Sentence Building Activity Two - This is similar to activity one (above) and the difference between them is the sentence structure. Activity two uses this starting sentence structure: Subject | Intransitive Verb
