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Tender Homeschool Planner Cover

May 13, 2016 | 4 Comments
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I’m excited today to update my Tender Planner cover for the 2017 to 2017 school year.

I love this cover because it has so many of my favorite colors on one page.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

This cover is part of my classical cover series, which means I used paid fonts.

Guess what? You can get it today for .99 cents.

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If you want to start building your planner today, here are the 7 Steps below:

7 Easy Steps – “Tons of Options & Pretty Color”

Step 1. Choose a Pretty Front/Back Cover

Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers

Step 3. Choose Goals/Objectives

Step 4. Choose Lesson Planning Pages Right For You!

Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You!

Step 5b. Choose MORE Unique Forms JUST for You!

Step 5c. Choose MORE MORE Unique Forms Just for You!

Step 6. Personalize It

Step 7. Bind it! Love it!

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Video Based Homeschool Art (No Teaching Involved)

May 12, 2016 | 6 Comments
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I just couldn’t resist showing you a few more art lessons that Tiny did from Atelier Homeschool Art.

Also, check out his beautiful tropical bird art lesson that he did earlier.

Video based art lessons have been a nice change this year because we have used book based curriculum in the past.

I’m loving the part where I don’t have to teach.

Tiny learned about how the Greek put their art on everything and then he did a lesson about the Olympics.

Also, there is an art lesson about positive and negative space and how to create mirror images, which I found fascinating.

Also, he did some opt art.

He found it pretty cool using hexagons to cover the page and then pick the colors though he tried to stay with the more abstract look and colors.

Homeschool Art (For the Non-Artsy Homeschooled Kid)

Look at this snippet about the videos.

All Atelier art lessons are presented on video, and reinforced by lesson plans.

Not only are the videos a rich source of creative ideas and inspiration, it also clarifies the objectives, materials, techniques and procedures of each lesson.

Abundant instructional coverage, as well as that of students in a virtual art class performing the lesson and displaying their finished artwork, consistently produces exceptional student results and learning, regardless of the art background of the parent teacher.

You can try a free preview of the curriculum by clicking here.

I have a review coming up soon, but just had to tell you about this if you’re considering art curriculum for next year.

How do you fit art into your day?

Hugs and love ya,

Medieval Homeschool History – 4 Surefire Ways to Beat a Boring Study

May 8, 2016 | 2 Comments
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We’re studying Medieval homeschool history and knights and castles make for a fascinating study of the medieval times. Also, look at my free 4 week Middle Ages Unit Study for more fun.

However, many other topics and vocabulary words can make it hard and well, flat out boring to study this time period.

Getting lost in the medieval world where definitions of words and topics are not things that you or your children hear and speak everyday can make you feel like you’re sinking when you start studying about them.

Medieval Homeschool History

Today, I am sharing 4 surefire ways to beat a boring study.

They have worked for me when we studied this topic before and how I will be incorporating them again when we study medieval homeschool history next.

We are excited to move on to medieval history and we will be using Beautiful Feet because you know I love their books and how they give a framework to guide you in the study.

However, I also love Beautiful Feet because they fit my criteria needed to complete a meaty and fun history unit study.

4 Surefire Ways to Beat a Boring Study

Take a look at these 4 things to include when studying medieval history.

1. LIVING BOOKS.

Living books are a must-have to cover history eras, which may be hard or boring to explain.

Too, when studying history where there may be fewer primary resources, fictional history can stir a child to think about the “what if”.

Teaching facts and making a story relevant to current life is the advantage of living books. Mix in fictional history and your child’s curiosity is sparked.

I love the living books used in Beautiful Feet’s medieval history study because reading about King Arthur, Robin Hood and Beowulf draw my boys into thinking what it would be like to live back in those times.

That is the beginning to expanding on subjects that are important, like inventing the first printing press, which may or may not interest your children.

2. HANDS-ON HISTORY.

My second must-have or must-do when studying time periods that are difficult to understand is to add hands-on projects. Hands-on history hooks a kid on a topic they’ll remember on into adulthood.

They not only make a subject come to life, but motivate a kid to keep digging into deeper topics. Take a look at 10 Ways to Hook Homeschooled Kids On History.

3. VOCABULARY WORDS DEFINED.

Vocabulary words are normally better understood and defined when they are read in a book because it helps your kids to understand their relevance.

That is still important when studying the ancients or medieval, but because of how archaic the language can be, I find that defining vocabulary words separately too is absolutely necessary to making the meaning clear.

I don’t believe in a long drawn out process that takes away from whatever it is your kids are learning at the moment. Narration is a perfect tool to incorporate at this point.

Writing them down helps to reinforce them too so that your kids don’t get lost in the out of date language.

4. MAPPING AND GEOGRAPHY.

Lastly, geography is important to visualizing the medieval world.

Then, a connection can be made to the modern world.

Geographical boundaries and names can change, but land forms can stand the test of time for a much longer period.

When a child sees where events take place at, then maps become not just a boring paper with names to memorize, but a picture from that time period.

It’s easier to understand how the environment affected the way people thought and felt at that time.

Living books, hands-on history, out of date words defined and geography are four surefire ways to beat a boring study about medieval history.

You’ll love the literature lists put together by Beautiful Feet. They are my go to place for guides and literature.

I can’t wait to get started with our unit study.

What do you like to include in your study of medieval history?

Hugs and love ya,

Also, look at how we used Beautiful Feet before in When We Used Beautiful Feet Books as our History Spine and also look at How to Use a History Spine to Build Your Study of History.

Homeschool Curriculum Cover – Fun Doodle Coloring

May 7, 2016 | Leave a Comment
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Grab this beautiful doodle coloring page for your free 7 step homeschool planner @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You asked for it and I loved creating it. Today, I have my latest homeschool curriculum cover, which is a doodle coloring page.

Hard as it was to restrain myself from splashing color all over this page, I am so excited to see your work or creation of colors on this homeschool cover.

This is an undated cover, which means you get to use it over and over as you scribble in, paint on or color on it. There is a space for you to add in the school year, design it or color it as you like it.

Promise me something, okay?

Don’t be shy because I would love to see your finished creation of this. Email me a picture when you finish with your color on it or share it on my facebook group. I can’t wait to see it.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

This cover is part of the classical cover series, which means I used paid fonts so that it is unique.

Guess what? You can get it today for only .99 cents!

Important: READ THIS FIRST.

Please put my email tina @ tinasdynamichomeschoolplus dot com in your address/contact list so that your product does not go to spam OR so that gmail, yahoo, hotmail or any other provider unintentionally blocks my email.

Before you email me asking where your download link is or tell me that it is not working, read this to ensure that you get your pretties timely and that you don’t pay for something and not get it.

All my products are digital. You will not receive a physical product for anything in my store. A digital physical year calendar does not mean a physical product or calendar.

Downloads are INSTANT. When you pay, you will receive an email with a download link INSTANTLY. Depending on your internet connection, the email could be just 30 seconds or so, or a bit longer. The point is it will be soon, not a week later,etc.
The email with the download link will go to the email you used for paypal. If you used your husband’s paypal, your downloads will go to that email. Please check that email and your spam before emailing me telling me you can’t find it.
Links are TIME SENSITIVE, meaning you need to download right then AND save to your computer. Please do not email me a week, two weeks or a month later telling me the “link is not working” because it has expired or because you did not save it to your device. I will not respond to those emails.
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I stand behind my products because they are actual products I use and benefit from too.

Though I cannot refund purchases after you have been given access to them, I will do what I can to be sure you are a pleased customer.

Doodle Coloring Curriculum Planner Cover
$1.75 Add to cart

Hugs and love ya,

Look at these other fun homeschool planner pages.

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If you have used my 7 Step Homeschool Planner before, then for your quick reference I have listed each page or step below!

{The only thing quick here are the steps because this free planner has grown to over 400 free downloads spread throughout the 7 easy steps. Grab your cup of ~~caffeine,~~ coffee!}

7 Easy Steps – “Tons of Options & Pretty Color”

Step 1. Choose a Pretty Front/Back Cover

Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers

Step 3. Choose Goals/Objectives

Step 4. Choose Lesson Planning Pages Right For You!

Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You! Not a kazillion other people

Step 5b. Choose MORE Unique Forms JUST for You!

Step 5c. Choose MORE MORE Unique Forms Just for You!

Step 6. Personalize It

Step 7. Bind it! Love it!

Lewis and Clark:Cooking on the Trail

April 30, 2016 | 4 Comments
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Today for studying about Lewis and Clark, I have a fun cooking idea. Look at my page Lewis and Clark Fun Homeschool Unit Study and Lapbook for more ideas.

Another reason for circling back to unit studies you have done before is that you can use resources you may not have had a chance to use the first time.

We used one of those resources today when studying Lewis and Clark because we did some cooking on the “trail”.

I have The Lewis and Clark Cookbook: Historic Recipes from the Corps of Discovery and Jefferson’s America book and we couldn’t wait to dive into it today.

Lewis and Clark: Hungry, though in a Land of Plenty

Buttermilk Recipe 6 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

What I love about this book is it gave a tally about how many animals were eaten.

Look at a few of them: deer, 1001, grizzly bear 43, beaver 113, bison 227 and turkeys 9 to name a few of them.

Too, we found it interesting that food was abundant.

The group went to bed hungry many nights because they would have rain that would ruin their drying meat or they would miss shooting the game.

The book also has journal entries from the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We read quite a few of them.

Here is the quote for this recipe:

(misspelling the same way it was in their journals)

November 30, 1805. (Sacagawea) gave me a piece of bread made of flour which She had reserved for her child and carefully kept untill this time, which has unfortunately got wet, and a little Sour. This bread I eat with great satisfaction,it being the only mouthfull, I had tasted for Several months past. – Clark.

Also, the preface was just chock full of information to help us understand how ingredients were made and to the recipes were created using authentic ingredients they would have during pioneering times.

Tiny has become a bread eater so he looked for a recipe to make some bread, but found one for buttermilk biscuits.

Look at these buttermilk biscuits Tiny made up real quick.

Lewis and Clark. Cooking Recipe @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup cold butter, cut into small parts
3/4 cup buttermilk (Remember if you don’t have buttermilk, just add lemon or vinegar to regular milk . I do this all the time, but I knew Tiny wanted to make this, so I grabbed buttermilk for it.)