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Free Homeschool Academic Year Calendar – 2016 to 2017

March 28, 2016 | 5 Comments
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I am always excited when I get my free 7 step homeschool planner printables ready early. Today, I have the first color choice for the free homeschool academic year calendar for the 2016 to 2017 school year.

You know how I get bored easily and so I need a variety of styles and color choices, so more will be coming. I am loving this newest color option I named ice cream.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

Don’t forget this is JUST a calendar for you to glance at the school year and make a few notes at the bottom.

I also make a planning your school calendar which gives you room to plan your school year. It is found every year on Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You. The current planning your school year calendars is kept at that page/step.

Look below at the picture so you can see the fine, but huge difference between just calendars like the one I have today and an actual planning form with a calendar and room to plan your year.

Do not try to write in your plans for the year on this calendar, I give you plenty of room on the tracking calendar.

Also, this calendar is not for writing appointments because you can grab a huge 2 page spread for noting appointments on Step 2. Choose Calendar/Appointment Keepers. The current 2 page appointment keepers are kept there.

Look at a picture below from one of the previous years.

I hope these pictures make it more clear that the calendar I have today is just that. It is perfect for glancing at the year and for reference in your planner.

Save it and print off as many as necessary when you print your planner.

I always have two or more spread throughout my planner. I put one close to my lesson planning section, one close to the front of my planner and sometimes I even put in the back so I don’t have to hunt very long for it.

Of course, as I add a few more color choices, they can go in your planner too. Grab your free copy below!

Hope you like ice cream.

2016 to 2017 Academic Year at a Glance Ice cream

If you’re ready to start building the MOST unique planner ever because YOU built it, start 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! 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!

Hugs and love ya,

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31 Days of Dinner Ideas for April

March 25, 2016 | Leave a Comment
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I hope you’re hanging with me on planning meals so that your homeschool day is less stressful. Remember my tip, which is if you don’t struggle with all meals, just plan for the time of the day where you are tired, busiest or want to think less about meal preparing.

31 Day Planning means Flexibility, Saving Money and Being Healthier. That Equals Smarter.

For me that time happens to be supper. It’s not that I am not interested in cooking or eating something delicious and healthy, it’s just that I am ready to slow the day down. So I plan my dinners because I am a stickler for avoiding stress when I can control it.

It’s not the time for me to run to the grocery store or begin cooking something to realize that I am missing one ingredient to complete the meal.

I simply follow the directions and keep evening time low stress and high on taste.

Today, I am sharing 31 days of dinner ideas for April so that you have it early for next month too.

Download here April 31 Days of dinner

Remember you can grab any 31 day dinner ideas I have done so far because instead of trying to match up days with our activities for the month, I just do a straight list of 31 days of ideas regardless if the month has 31 days or not. This way, I can have options and mix and match too.

Grab January dinner ideas along with an editable menu planner here, grab February dinner ideas here, and grab March dinner ideas here.

Surely, one of these menus will impress you enough to inspire you. Plus I have done the hard part for you which is coming up with ideas and not repeating dinners. (Oh I repeated one or two meals because we loved them, but for the most part variety is the key to enjoying both the meal and planning.)

Which meals are you finding hard to prepare?

Hugs and love ya,

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Free Homeschool High School Planning Sheet (and pssst help for high school too)

March 11, 2016 | 4 Comments
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Homeschooling high school can be a scary time, but I created forms that helped me to successfully graduate two of my children and put some of my fears to rest. Today, in sharing free homeschool high school planning forms, I am sharing a much needed update to that form and sharing a tip or two when planning so that you too can see how easy peazy homeschooling high school can be.

Free Homeschool High School Planning Form @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

No-Fail Homeschool High School Tricks

I used my original high school planning forms found here on STEP 5a of my free 7 Step Homeschool Planner. It saved me countless hours of stress because I could plan.

Try to remember too that planning sheets are just that, a plan and not what will probably end up being the final goals.

Life will affect how you and your teen think, your teen will grow into a young man or lady, complete with very strong feelings of what they want to do and the job market and college scene will change.

However, it is better to plan because it gives you goals to shoot for and I find that putting my plans down in writing cements what we are aiming for.

For this year, I also stuck my editable high school transcript in my planner because it is my blue print of what I am looking for Tiny to do.

By the way, I did that for each year when I had a son reach the high school years.

I would add the transcript and carry the credits from the previous year. Since it’s editable, I updated it and added it to my planner and a few years I wrote my thoughts right on it.

Look at these 3 easy tips to remember too as you kick off the high school years.

Though you may start off doing most of the planning, your teen needs to be involved more so now in the planning. It’s not that he will have so much feedback about what to do, but you are training him to see this as his responsibility.
Also, remember when you include another person, it means you need to be flexible and not insist on everything you want for high school. You are molding your teen to be a unique individual, not a miniature you. (I know, hard to remember because you are spectacularly awesome and they are part of you, but you want your teen to find their awesome, unique self.)
Don’t go overboard and step back from all supervising. There comes a point when you feel like you don’t recognize your child and that is because they look like a grown man or woman walking around in your house. They may be pretty independent by now too. Remember, they are not grown yet and more than ever now needs your supervision more closely.

Focus on the end because it comes faster than you want it to and you’ll be planning an awesome graduation party. Read my 10 days of How to Plan a Graduation Party.

Grab this updated Homeschool Planning Sheet here and don’t forget to check out my STEP 5a page for the other high school planning pages.

Hugs and love ya,

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Free Scope and Sequence Divider Page – Free 7 Step Homeschool Planner

February 26, 2016 | 2 Comments
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I know not everybody follows me because of my planner, but my planner is a lot of who I am and I am plain giddy about my new homeschool planner coming out because I am sharing several updates to it. One update I have to tell you about is the new free scope and sequence divider page (three color options too) which is part of the free 7 Step Homeschool Planner.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

It’s the small detailed things in my planner that make my heart go pitter patter. I know I am not the only weird one like that.

And because I have been building my planner for so many years for you and for me, I also know when one of those small, but fun things are needed.

Let me explain. In putting together my newest planner (yes pictures are coming when I’m done), I noticed that on my scope and sequence section, I may not want a tabbed section just for it.

(By the way, you can grab the free editable tab top pages here on Step 6. Personalize It.)

It depends on each year as to what I want. For example, when homeschooling all three kids, I had a whole tabbed section separate just for my scope and sequence (you can print my scope and sequences here) because I printed off two grade levels for each kid.

I print one grade for the grade my child is currently in and the other grade level was the year ahead so I could see what I was aiming for next or in some cases, work that my child was already doing.

So my preference then was to have a whole tabbed section.

Some years, I would want different things within a tabbed section called “Goals or Planning”.

For example, this year I am homeschooling only one son now, but I want two grade levels in my planner. Also, under that same tabbed section, I want my high school planning pages.

The bottom line is that one side or page, which is the beginning of the scope and sequence was blank.

And since I have different things within that tabbed section, I decided to create a divider for the scope and sequence section to print on the blank side.

I think I may need some other divider pages within a tabbed section, but I am starting with this newest baby today. I have created the divider page in three different color choices and fonts.

Scope and Sequence Divider Page 3 color choices to grab at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You know I squeal for change and need my planner to be unique each year and so I need to change it constantly. I hope you love the newest form and that it will help to refine your planner with those small, but love them detailed type of pages.

Download all three colors of the Scope and Sequence in one download here.

Also, if you want to start building your planner now, begin with the first step, which is the hardest, but I promise to make it easy for you.

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!

And always check my Free Organizing Printables Category too for any printables that are released, but that I may not have had time to add to one of my 7 steps yet.

Hugs and you know I love ya,

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Free 2016 to 2017 Year Round Homeschool Planning Form

February 22, 2016 | 3 Comments
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I know it’s a crazy time of the year to put together my 7 step homeschool planner, but we moved back from overseas at a crazy time. Today, in sharing my free 2016 to 2017 year round homeschool planning form, I am excited to share the first color, which is powder puff for the next academic school year.

Also, keep in mind that my year round planning form doesn’t mean you have to school year round to use it. I have it set up year round because as homeschoolers we do seem, however, to be busy learning all year long.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

The academic year I follow is from July to June. The beauty of my planner is that you can make it at anytime of the year. So if you need to make your planner now, you can grab the previous school year planning form here. Now you have the current academic year and with my newest form, you can plan for next academic year too.

The second thing I want to remind you of is that the year round planning form was not created as a calendar to note appointments.

I have a nice and large 2 page spread appointment keeper to add to your planner that is big enough to note appointments and field trips.

The form today is for planning your school year. I normally highlight or circle which weeks we will homeschool and then I track the days and weeks on this form.

And the best thing, I think anyway, is that I do several color choices and today is the first color choice for the next school year. I hope you like it.

Download the Powder Puff Color 2016 to 2017 Year Round School Planning Form.

Have you started creating your own Free 7 Step Homeschool Planner? There is NOT another like it since YOU create it with forms that I have here.

Your homeschool changes each year so should your planner.

Begin making your planner today!

{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!}