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Free 2015 to 2016 Year Around School Planning Page

November 18, 2014 | 8 Comments
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This is new for me. I mean it’s hard to know that it is the fall season now when I live in a place that is springtime each day. We don’t set our clocks here in Ecuador and other than a bit more rain for part of the year, each day is the same as the next one.

Just as a side note, too each day the sun rises and sets pretty close to the same time. So it’s dark here around 6:00 p.m. and light around 6:00 a.m.

I did not realize how much seasonally I prepared my curriculum pages for the homeschool planner, or slowed down or changed my pace for school.

This will take some getting use to when there is not really any fall or winter weather.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

But knowing that it is close to the winter break or at least winter for you, I get excited because it’s time to start creating all new forms for next year.

Too, I know some of you start putting your new planner together about April and I like to have a good part of it done by then.

I am always so eager to get started early because it allows me to create several options and colors and to take my time creating them. Today, I have the free 2015 to 2016 year around school planning page, option 1.

You know I like a variety of colors and options in my pages, so today I opted for a bit more of a clean look by not putting a background color.

I haven’t planned the new curriculum covers yet, but hopefully by providing an option or two without a background, you can mix and match the colored covers to make your homeschool planner look unique next year.

Download Option 1 2015 to 2016 Year Around School Planning Schedule

Hope you like the first option today.

Hugs and love ya,

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7 Step Homeschool Planner Free Library Resources List

October 29, 2014 | 2 Comments
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It’s killing me! This is the first year that I have not been able to coil bind my 7 Step Homeschool Planner because each piece of luggage was perfectly weighed so that we could bring them to South America.

It came down to a choice between a math book for Tiny and my homeschool planner to pack in our bag. You know which one I had to pack. I did find some other things here, but first I have to let you know that I have another form ready and it is the 7 Step Homeschool Planner Free Library Resources List.

I am so excited about this newest form because I have a whole host of forms that I slowly work on as I get ~~wired~~ excited as the homeschool planner grows with more options each year.

Before I tell you about the Library Resources List though I wanted to share a few pictures of what I saw the other day walking down the streets here in Ecuador.

The sight of it was enough to make an organizing loving gal’s heart go pitter-patter.

I saw this office supply storefront and just knew I had found a place to do coil binding.

Sigh. . . no, but of course they had so many other “goodies” there that I couldn’t bring with me in a bag when we first got here. I knew I just had to step inside and take a peek.

The inside was enough to make me not breathe. I have been too long without my organizing pretties.

I am still on the hunt for a coil binding place, but for now, I have visited this place each week. I didn’t want to buy too many things before we move into our new home, but I am over the top excited about finding this big place.

It’s the small things you take for granted like coil binding until you don’t have them. But then again, I am loving the adventure of finding new things.

Enough about me. This is about you today because I am excited to share a Library Resources List.

You know how I feel about creating forms for the Free 7 Step Homeschool Planner. I just create as I go along and take my time with each form.

I am a stickler for correct names of forms too. So titles of forms matter. The title of this form is “Library RESOURCES” and not Library Books.

Most of the time we can borrow so many more things from a library other than just books. For example, at our library we can borrow DVDS too.

So I used a more broad term to include other media you may borrow from the library.

Then the next thing I did was to divide the sections by 10 items.

Sometimes we will pick up a lot of items at the library and sometimes it is just a few. But hopefully, with the sections divided by 10 items, which means that 30 titles fit on one page, it will help you to see at a glance how many items are not returned yet.

So the captions across the top are titles, due date and then a column to mark when you have returned the item.

Plus I like things separated a bit when I am writing on my planner instead of everything running together.

Today, I have one color choice, but you know I love color options. So you know what that means, right? More color options coming!

After all, no one curriculum planner should ever be matchy-match. It should be unique, like you! Couldn’t resist a bit of sugary sweetness. Okay, that’s enough.

Hope you like it!

Download here Library Resources List

Hugs and love ya,

Did you grab these other printables?

Begin building your free 7 Step Homeschool Planner below. You’ll never go back to downloading one planner that may fit your needs this year, but not the next.

7 Easy Steps – “Tons of Options & Pretty Color” Begin building your planner.

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!

2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule

October 4, 2014 | 8 Comments
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When possible, I always like to give a couple of color choices for most all of my forms. Who doesn’t like choices? So today, I have a second color choice for the 2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule.

Here are some of the ways you can use this form:

This form works if you live in a country where your school year begins with the physical year.
This forms works if you prefer to follow the physical year instead of the school year. By the way, I did this for many years and I loved it. I wouldn’t have all the school hype for changing grade levels during a busy time and it seemed prices were cheaper too on some curriculum during mid-winterish.
This forms works if you pull your children out mid-school year and want to start planning.

Download 2015 Year Around Planning Schedule Pink Smudge Luv Here.

Sometimes you know you just need a do-over too. So many times, I have used this form if my academic year got off to an unplanned rocky start and I wanted a do-over. We can do that you know in homeschool.

Too, if you missed the first color choice I shared a few months back, I have it for you below because I haven’t put it up on STEP 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You! yet. But since you are following me, you are not missing out.

Download the 2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule here.

Remember, if you need calendars they are found on STEP 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers.

One more last thing since I have been behind in updating my Curriculum Planner pages under each step on my blog because of my move and all, I wanted to be sure you had grabbed the Field Trip Reference Chart.

With all the beautiful weather lately, do not wait to start planning and taking field trips. I have listed field trips by seasons and my page is called Beyond Museums & Zoos Homeschool Field Trip. It will help you to think beyond those two places when planning your year.

Download Homeschool Field Trip Reference Chart Here.

Okay, you know I love ya and enjoy,

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Back Cover Curriculum Planner

September 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment
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Because I take my time creating my curriculum planner printables for my 7 Step Homeschool Planner, I find inspiration at anytime. So today, for the back cover curriculum planner, I was so stoked when I was reminded of the saying that “One Mother Teaches More than a Hundred Teachers” that I created another option choice for the back cover.

That is such a powerful statement that I felt like it deserved it’s own page.

Don’t underestimate the influence and power you have today over changing your children’s future. And a gentle but power packed reminder each day, will hopefully keep us both pumped up for the days when we wonder why we are homeschooling.

I’m in a pinkish, purplish and turquoise-y (my new word) kind of elegant mood today. Too, since I never strive to have all my pages matching because I always want you to have a unique planner and not one huge boring matching conundrum, I hope you like the color choice.

You never know when the inspiration strikes and I will have to create more options.

Enjoy the newest back cover!

Download Back Cover Option 3 Here.

Hugs and love ya

Did you already grab your 2 page spread appointment keepers for the academic year or for 2015?

Rainbow, New Beginnings and Dreaming Color Schemes shown below.

Beyond Museums and Zoos Homeschool Field Trip Form

August 22, 2014 | 4 Comments
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Pondering the possibilities of field trips in South America has my brain racing about new field trip ideas and places. But before I scoot on to that adventure, I want to share today my ideas for beyond museums and zoos homeschool field trip form.

After you have homeschooled for a few years, you realize that some places are what I call keepers for each year. They are places you don’t mind visiting again and again like museums and a zoo. But as time marches on and kids grow, you need ideas for other places.

So I created a homeschool field trip reference chart that is divided by season that you can easily add to your 7 step homeschool planner. I added 10 ideas for each season.

In listing the ideas, I tried to avoid some places, not all though that would be pretty obvious in a particular season. You know about them already and besides you probably have traditions or will have them in each season.

For example, we had one annual event in January to Incredible Pizza that all of our kids loved. As adults we could never figure out why not just one, but all ages, young and old loved that trip!! The place is huge and had lots of games, an indoor skating rink, car races and bowling. We just couldn’t figure out why it was more special than other places like that we had visited. It became our group’s tradition in January.

Another thing to remember about field trips as you enter more relaxed homeschooling is that not every field trip do you need to meet educational objectives.

I know groups are different from area to area, but in forming my field trip group it was understood that our main goal was socialization. I learned as a hard-nosed teacher that learning didn’t have to be so hard and it was better remembered in a fun setting.

Meeting educational goals is tops on our list, but it runs second to our main goal of socialization. The families in my group preferred our field trip time to be one where the kids had time to interact, form lasting friendships and not be about hearing long-winded lectures.

Beyond Museums & Zoos. 10 Field Trip Ideas for Each Season

Surprisingly, when I relaxed as a teacher and tried not to drill my kids on everything we learned, they too relaxed and wanted to learn more about the places we visited.

I hope you enjoy this form as I plan for a few more field trip forms, but wanted to get this to you as the new year started. You know how I take my time in creating my forms because they each come from a special place or from my experience in my journey that I want you to know about. So I really want them useful and practical too.

Download Homeschool Field Trip Reference Chart Here.