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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.

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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!

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10 Things to Include in Your Homeschool Planner – Because Paper Planners Rock!!

March 8, 2016 | 4 Comments
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{Note: This is my ultimate unit study planner in the photo above with multiple cover choices.}

Homeschoolers by nature are do it yourself type of people and the homeschool planners we use are no different. I am pretty fussy about mine, which is why I created the free 7 step homeschool planner. And today, in sharing 10 things to include in your homeschool planner, it’s all about making your planner unique and as creative as you want it to be.

Your Homeschool Needs Change Each Year – So Should Your Planner – Build It!

Look at some of these ideas and the best thing is that most of these things below are free here on my site.

1. Field Trip Tracking/Planning Forms.

Whether you want to track field trips for the year or need to plan them for a group, grab these forms.

Grab the field trip reference chart too so that when planning you stretch yourself to think of places (other than the museum or zoo) outside of your comfort zone.

field trip tracking july to june TDHP 6.1.2013

2. Inspirational Quotes.

Inspirational quotes are tiny power packing nuggets of energy.

They give me a boost when I feel like falling off the homeschool wagon. Grab some of them to sprinkle throughout your planner and use it for the front and/or back of your planner.

Free Quotes for homeschool planner back cover @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

3. Planning Schedule.

I say this often, but there is no need to try to plan your homeschool year by writing in tiny boxes on a calendar or using the same calendar where you write down appointments.

School Year Around Planning Form @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You need to have a separate page where you keep your school schedule for the year and track it too. You can grab one from the link above (or Step 5a) or grab this current one above from my blog category for organizational printables, which has all my current ones.

4. Calendars, of course, BUT pretty ones.

No need to give up style when you homeschool. Pretty colors for calendars, please and I have them.

You can choose from academic or physical year calendars each year and I normally give you about two or three color choices each.

Free Academic and Physical Year Calendars @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

5. 2 Page Spread Calendar – Appointment Keeper

The calendar above is for reference, but of course there is no way I am writing around those tiny numbers.

I create and use the two page spread calendar appointment keepers each year and keep all appointments on those pages.

By the way, I have the new year up already, which you can get on that same page.

2016 2 page per month physical year - Dreaming @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

6. Holiday List – 5 Years Worth

I love this page because it is a great reference for long term planning and I update it each year. I have several of them spread out throughout my planner so I can access it quickly.

Holidays Listed 2015 to 2019 passion pink 300x375

Holidays Listed 2015 to 2019 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus. Over 200 Free Curriculum Planner Downloads and Growing 300x

7. Important Dates.

Everyone tracks differently and I like to keep one area where I can look at a glance at important dates, whether they are blog related, personal or homeschool.

It’s just the way my brain thinks.

Home Management Binder amd Free Important Dates Printables @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

8. Lesson Planning Pages – well of course, BUT . . .

Lesson planning pages come in MANY different forms and I have seen many of them. However, I prefer room to write and prefer daily lesson planning pages.

Undated pages, that is too. Just fill in the current date and move on to the next page instead of feeling like you are behind if you can’t school a day or two because life happens.

I have many different choices of lesson planning pages here on my site.

The link above is my main page with free lesson planning pages where you can learn about the basic differences, but I also have my unit study planner and glam it up pages lesson planning pages.

Glam it Up Package 600x @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

4a Lesson Planning Pages subjects filled in middle school

9. Journal pages

Then plenty of places to write down your thoughts, funny moments and yes even doodling is allowed in planners.

Grab plenty of journal pages because I have so many of them.

10. Swoon worthy DIY (yes they’re editable) tabs.

Then because I made my curriculum planner a whole DIY project, even the little things matter like tabs.

Glam It Up Homeschool Planner s @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Planner

I hope this list gives you an idea of the small, but practical and beautiful things to add to your own homeschool planner.

Are you ready to start building your own homeschool 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!

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,

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.

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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.

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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!}

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,

Don’t forget to follow BOTH of my Pinterest accounts for more AWESOME pins.

Visit Tina Robertson’s profile on Pinterest.

Visit Tinas Dynamic Homeschool ‘s profile on Pinterest.

Turquoise Candy 2016 to 2017 Academic Year Calendar –2 Pages Per Month At A Glance

February 17, 2016 | 4 Comments
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Today, I am sharing the first 2016 to 2017 Academic Year Calendar –2 Pages Per Month at a Glance with you. It is the turquoise candy option. Too, for the first time this year, I will be rolling out calendars for the next academic year, which is 2017 to 2018. That is coming soon.

I am so excited about finally being able to offer two years at a time this year because I have been wanting to keep two years in my calendars for a long time.

First though, let me remind you where all the color choices are for this option so you can be sure to look them over each year and they are kept here Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers. Of course this is the first color choice, but I wanted to let you know where they are generally kept.

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The second thing I want to remind you of is that I have FREE calendars that are made for a quick glance that I share on the same step, Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers and planning calendars are also different because they are for planning and tracking school weeks. The homeschool planning calendars are kept at Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You! and I will be sharing them soon too.

The two page spread I share today is for keeping appointments for any of your family’s needs whether its personal or homeschool.

Also, this two page spread can be used in a home management binder, blogging planner, financial planner or fitness planner.

My copyright allows you to print it off as many times as you need it for your needs. (By the way, I have a new copyright permission form I am keeping on the front page of my site all the way at the bottom right hand side if you need it. I know some of you are having trouble printing my pages at different printing places because of copyright permission.)

Look at 4 sample pages below of this newest calendar.

Hope you love the new color choice turquoise candy and you can get it now for .99 cents!

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Did you see that next year’s academic calendar is ready too?

You get two years worth of use out of it. Use it this year and have it for next year too? If you want to see the Glamorous Color Option, you can go here.

Hugs and love ya,

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Curriculum Planner

Free Homeschool Academic Year Calendar – 2016 to 2017

Curriculum Pages for Planner

2016 to 2017 Academic Year at a Glance Ice cream

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

10 Things to Include in Your Homeschool Planner – Because Paper Planners Rock!!