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Day 31: Ready Set Go! + Pssst Giveaway. {31 Day Boot Camp For New Homeschoolers on My Blog}

August 18, 2013 | 47 Comments
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Drumroll please! You made it! All the Way Through !!!!!

Day 29: Hidden Homeschool Treasures

Day 30: Looking Back to Stretch Forward

Day 31: Ready Set Go!

I won’t conclude this series by saying that your first or second year will be easy by any stretch of the imagination. The truth of it is that a lot of homeschoolers don’t take time in the beginning to fortify themselves for such a rigorous race. If you lose your way, just re-evaluate. Don’t escape and return back to what you left behind. Decisions are personal for each family, but, right now, right here, you need to take time to list everything that brought you to homeschooling (Option 5 on my page) because those ideas will serve as a beacon or signal to keep you moving forward.

Don’t ever buy into the mind-set that somebody else is doing it better. We all struggle equally with our weaknesses, but too we each bring our particular set of strengths to our children and husband.

Discounting what you can do and focusing only on what you cannot do is counterproductive to homeschooling. No, I am not saying to live in the world of superficial homeschooling or creating a homeschool facade. I do believe though in the curative value of positive thinking.

I am not talking about sugar coated homeschooling because there are hundreds and hundreds of support groups, dozens and dozens of print and online homeschooling magazines to pore over, lots and lots of sites for homeschool curriculum reviews and thousands of talented parents that are experts in any given field. Focus on how to improve your situation through education. That is practical homeschooling.

My wobbly knees when walking out from public school when my son was 5 have been made firm and stable only through use. Courage in homeschooling does not come from self-reliance either but knowing that an abundance of knowledge and tips exists in the homeschooling world if only you would tap into them.

I will conclude this 31 day series by saying that I would not trade anything I did for one moment in public school. Prayer, perseverance and patience have been part of my mainstays of my journey. Keep your long term vision clear and concrete through tears of happiness, sadness and plain downright frustration because in the end you are working hard for an eternal reward.

Final quote:

When the world says, “Give up,”

Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”

~Author Unknown~

Would you like to celebrate reaching the end of this 31 day boot camp? Let’s party!

Kelley and I would like to give away one workshop of your choice to 5 winners!

Remember this is not just for new bees, because some of you may be struggling with tips on how to teach multiple ages or maybe high school is approaching.

You can choose any one of my 7 workshops. Look on my store page for the choices. Also along with the workshop, you will be able to download the comprehensive outline and print it which averages about 20 pages You will notice in my store that I updated my New Bee program by breaking down the program into several workshops. Each workshop now includes a comprehensive outline .

Are you ready to enter the giveaway? I luv your comments and I try to make it easy on you by just commenting here on this blog post.

Giveaway Ends Thursday August 22 at 9:00 a.m. CST. The winners will be selected using random org and will be notified afterwards.

Add your comments now.

My rules are always simple.

You can have up to 2 entries.

1 . Comment here on this blog post for your 1st entry. Remember, though I always love getting your emails, you won’t be entered in this giveaway if you send me an email.

2. Comment here again on this blog post for a 2nd entry to let me know which you are eyeballing if you get selected.

Hugs and hope you win!

Winners Below

1st Winner. Comment Number 23

Amanda Durrett
Aug 18, 2013 @ 19:56:30

This is my 2nd entry, I’d love to win the side-tracked class or even the learning styles class. Thanks again for all you do!!!

2nd. Winner . Comment Number 3

Kara S
Aug 18, 2013 @ 08:07:26

Thank you so much for this 31 day bootcamp! I am so excited you have helped boost my confidence that I can homeschool my 1st grader. I’m even leaning towards taking on my 11th grader too! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

3rd. Winner. Comment Number 12.

Jennifer S.
Aug 18, 2013 @ 12:57:58

I have loved reading each post in your daily series. I am entering my 5th year of homeschooling and took away lots of great info from you! Thanks so much!

4th. Winner. Comment Number 32.

Leslie
Aug 19, 2013 @ 10:59:17

I love this series! Extremely informative thank you! I would choose the Sidetracked workshop!

5th. Winner. Comment Number 24.

abrianna
Aug 18, 2013 @ 20:03:50

I would love to win one of these workshops.

Congratulations to the winners! Email us at dynamic 2 moms at yahoo dot com and we will also be emailing you. I hope this series blesses your family.

Free Minoan and Mycenaean Minibook for an Ancient Civilization Study

June 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
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Our year end co-op is always worth the time that it “distracts” me. Making a Roman shield and helmet compliments of some free cardboard and an easy costume equals a memorable day for Tiny. I promise to share all the easy how-to tips in upcoming posts.

But now that its May–YIKES– that means curriculum planner updates are coming soon too. Hold on to your britches as I switch between topics in the upcoming weeks like my home management binder + my unit study printables + adding in my curriculum planner updates and yes I even have another giveaway coming up.

Free Minoan and Mycenaean Minibook for an Ancient Civilization Study

My year end co-op is finished, my New Bee workshops are done for the year and I am feeling all energetic and zippy.

Okay—-well almost because the kids said they could use a day or two to sleep in and my house still needs to be put back together. Just sounds better if I say the kids need it.

Today, I want to share with you the next minibook in our ancient civilization unit because we did our own lapbook too while we did the Great Empires Activity Study by Home School in the Woods.

On a side note: I was excited after searching high and low for some great clip art that I actually found some to purchase. You have to love those folks making donations to the Dynamic 2 Moms site because when they donate, I buy for you. I always try to be sure they get a Thank You from me.

Our reading focused on the Minoans and Mycenaean. The Minoans settled on the island of Crete at the same time as the rise of Mesopotamia and Egypt. This civilization too has royal palaces and paved roads.

In Minoan culture, bulls were significant and vaulting off the back of bulls was a sport. The Mycenaean were skilled at using gold, built the first Greek empire and were highly civilized even though all around them were barbarian tribes.

That is enough to understand about each culture if you are trying to keep it simple. I like simple.

This next minbook is a layered book about the Minoan and Mycenaean and all you do is staple on the side. As I have time you know I like to create minibooks that have text and create another set that is blank in case you want to fill in your own information. This one is no different. I have text on one set and the duplicate set is without text.

This allows you to use it with both, older and younger children, or to use the information given if you are in a bind for time. We do a lot of writing so I keep our minibooks easy because the focus is on the delight of learning not on penmanship. However, if you are working on penmanship you will enjoy having them blank. As you can see, lots of ways to use all of my minibooks

You know I told you that this lapbook is going to have many different civilizations in it. When I first started homeschooling, I focused on one civilization at a time and I still like to do that, but too after going through them with each kid or each year, sometimes its nice to have a quick glance at one time. I think it helps younger children to get a panorama of history and its equally important for my older sons because it serves as a review. One reason also is if history is not your first love like it is for us, then looking at each ancient civilization with not so much detail keeps it from becoming overwhelming. I can’t imagine people not wanting to study history their every waking minute. Just saying.

Hugs and love ya,

Update: This lapbook is now complete.

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5 days of a homeschooling co-op convert-day 5: cherished co-ops

June 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment
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{Warning: Picture Overload Again. This got long because I have many pictures & memories we have created so far that I want to share with you. So I am scattering them throughout this post.}

Nobody wants to be part of a co-op that does not flourish. It flourishes not because of the work of other people but because each leader and all the members work at creating an atmosphere for learning and lasting memories.

Co-ops can go from cherished to a flop if you don’t have communication, a clear purpose on the existence of the group, a few clear cut ground rules, realistic ways to solve the costs and expenses of the group, and leadership with joy.

I got ask to share some of the ground rules we have. Giving you some of my thinking and experience behind the rules, I hope helps you to make the right rules for your co-op.

Don’t overwhelm new members with rules but a few well chosen rules keeps expectations clear. It should take you longer to read this post than it should a new member to read the list. Be precise and clear so that your group attracts the members that you want in your co-op.

About Rule 1. Our group is private and you have to know somebody before you join. We feel this keeps drama down to a minimum. Normally a friend that is already having fun in the co-op can be your best advocate if things go awry or if the guidelines are not understood by a new member.

You think it’s a given that participation is required, but you’d be surprised. There are a number of people who join a group and like reading the group’s email behind the computer, but shows up rarely because of one excuse or another. If the very purpose of your co-op is to socialize, like ours is, then you want active families. Our co-op is private because we would rather grow with few active participants than many who are not. It didn’t’ take long for word to get out and our group grew fast in a few years.

About Rules 2, 3 & 9. We didn’t want a group that was drop off and go. The purpose of a our co-op is so that families participate together. We have the rule that a guardian or parent has to be present. We don’t care if families agree between themselves that another mom can bring a child, they have to contact us first to approve this. Things happen like sickness and pregnancy so we try to be kind and make exceptions to our rule where we can. They are few and far between.

This rule may sound rigid but when you are responsible for what goes on at a co-op, we take it seriously. Children grow into teens with natural feelings for the opposite sex, a child may have unknown allergies or behavioral problems and if anything goes wrong at a co-op, it is wise for a parent to always be there.

Also, we make it clear that extra children couldn’t come that were not approved. Again, this keeps drama in your co-op down to a minimum because some mom decided it was good to bring an extra 5 kids because she felt they needed to come. This doesn’t mean they can’t, just address it whether you want that or not. We feel it is rude to do this when one homeschool mom has worked hard on preparing lessons and crafts and then doesn’t have enough because extra children showed up. Like I have mentioned before, communication is the vital life blood of a thriving co-op.

We have a real simple rule about participation and that is you have to come at least to 1 event. Of course our members came to many normally after they attended one, but this shows we are serious about participation.

About Rules 4 & 5. Having one pay period per year works better for us because it makes for less time managing and more time for us to plan and have fun. Keep the collecting money process down to the shortest time possible.

Too, though it may be convenient for members to pay by pay pal, we don’t accept it because pay pal charges a fee. Even a small fee is too much when every penny counts. It may be more hassle to send it snail mail, but you get every penny. Make it easy on members to pay, but not at the expense of having less money when you probably don’t charge much to begin with.

Dress can be a sensitive subject. Some of our members live in more fashion conscious areas and others do not. We don’t allow members to impose their views on others. Too, we didn’t make a laundry list of what is right and wrong because we don’t want to impose our views either.

I happen to love clothes, makeup, especially bright red lipstick and all the accessories, but if another person’s view made them dress differently, that is fine too.

Our leaders are not narrow minded, but try to be open to many styles while still being modest. We only have a few rules like no real short shorts , low cut blouses and no T-shirts for boys or girls that had suggestive language. When something like this came up and we saw something we didn’t agree with, we handled it privately with the member and tried to be kind and loving. It did happen quite a bit because everybody thinks differently, but we always seem to resolve it when we are kind.

About Rules, 6, 7 & 8. We have to know something about our members before they received an invitation to join. Answering serious questions first before they got on the group kept us from having to dismiss members after they were on the group. In other words, joining a co-op should be a 2 way interview process. They should be asking what you offer and how you run things and you should be “interviewing” them.

Besides the general questions about the basics of address and kids, we wanted to know how many children they were schooling. Also we wanted to know what their views are on homeschooling. We ask this not to be nosey, but if they have kids that were in trouble in public school and it’s because they have been lax in parenting, we don’t really want that trouble to follow them to our co-op. Their reply privately to you as group leaders reveals their heart and what kind of member they will be.

One really important question on our questionnaire is “Have you or any of your family members been accused of being a pedophile?” In our co-op, we don’t care if they have been cleared innocent or not, our group is private and we can make rules like nobody accused, whether presumed innocent or guilty can be part of our group.

Sure they can reply how they want to but two things happen here: 1) The family knows your serious about watching your group 2) You have an answer to the group if the horrible thing ever happens where a pedophile enters your co-op. Having this questionnaire shows you have tried to do your job well in protecting the group and have background information on everybody in the group.

There are many ways to communicate to members. When a group is new and not many members, it is easier to communicate through phone. The larger the group grows the more you need to stay balanced and not forget your own children’s education. A better way of communication is needed. Sure, it is easy to text but it can be rude when your group is larger and because you may be in the middle of school too.

Our main method of communicating to members is using a yahoo group. If I talked to all of our members or texted them, I would not get anything done in my home. Yahoo groups are good for planning and answering and setting up polls to see who is coming.

One feature we have that is a *must* is that emails are set to *individual* emails. We are not going to email important notices and then be read or seen days later. If your group gets too many “chatty” emails, then moderate the group. This has been our time tested method and it is still great today.

We also have geographical limits for our members. We live in a big city and near Houston so we want to be sure our members can make it to field trips and events. Again, this lets the group know you are serious about participation and your group is not just for online chatting.

About Rule 10. You think it goes without saying in a homeschool group you don’t allow bullies and cussing but you’d be surprised. Some parents make excuses for their children’s behavior. Again, handling it privately as each occurrence comes up kept drama out of the co-op. Sometimes we wouldn’t have to dismiss members because after we talked to them about their children’s behavior, they got defensive and they never came back. This happened just a few times. The other parents appreciated being told because they may have been busy talking and visiting. Understanding that children can be children goes a long way too in not judging others so harshly because I recognize that my kids are subject to misbehaving too.

We happen to like toddlers and preschoolers moving around and don’t expect them to sit and be quiet like older children. They are suppose to move. Older children learn that a co-op though should be fun is still school.

Spend time thinking about guidelines and your group will have many lasting memories because each member cherishes it. My sons have made life-long friends. Too, the value of seeing each other year after year gives them a sense of classmates and some as close as family.

All the work myself, Kelley and Cynthia have put into our co-op has been worth every stressing detail though we didn’t think that at the moment.

Meeting with the group is something we ALL look forward to each month and it one of the highlights of our journey. We have more loved homeschooling friends that I ever could have imagined.

Throughout the years we have made many cherished memories of which I have shared only a few today and we plan on making more.

Are you a homeschooling co-op convert?

If you missed the other days, here is your Homeschooling Co-op 101 guide:

5 Days of A Homeschooling Co-op Convert – Day 1:Who needs one anyway?

5 Days of A Homeschooling Co-op Convert – Day 2:What are the basics?

5 Days of A Homeschooling Co-op Convert – Day 3: Coordinating the Co-op

5 Days of A Homeschooling Co-op Convert – Day 4: Co-op Core Leaders Matter

Hugs and love ya,

Step 7. Bind It/Love it

Step 7. Final Step. Organize it/Shuffle Sections/Print your Tabs before you take it to be COIL BOUND.

Please Read Here (Under About the Type of Planner Created) Why I Do Not Suggest Notebooks or to use them for only Special Occasions

Be sure your planner is laid out in the order you like. If you followed my steps, most of it will be organized. However, you may prefer to put Day at a Glance in between each planner page or you may prefer to have a separate section for that and the same way for Journaling. You DECIDE what you like!

Coil Binding The Only Way to Go. {hate sounding so dogmatic, but it’s true}

As far as binding, the way I liked the best is coil bind. For a few bucks more, especially if you printed your pages, it is worth the coil bind. The best reason is that the pages lay flat on my table. Too, the binding does not take as much room on the left margin.

Also, another reason is that the pages do not tear out easy.

Coil bind comes in ALL colors, red, black, white, and even purple and pink. lol. But it just depends on which office supply place you get it bound at as to selection. If you are a true adventurer you can even order ANY colored coil through a binding company and take your own color as I do sometimes.

For example a college town will carry the colors of your local college or even school. Some will just carry the basics like “black and white”.

I use to call ahead to various Office Max locations to see what is in stock before I chose my “cover” so it would all coordinate. But for bigger planners, (real thick ones) the choices are usually limited to either black or white or clear.

Cover and Back

I used to get a clear cover and then a hard back black cover to provide some support because I just didn’t really take it anywhere. That was fine. (This normally is what the average office supply worker usually recommends.) If you choose this, keep in mind you have a selection colors for the sturdy back cover as well. For example, if you choose a purple binding, you can do like a pearl iridescent back. It is very pretty :o) and clean looking, not to mention professional looking.

BUT my favorite trick I have learned –is to laminate the FRONT and BACK extra big. Be sure to NOT choose “thin” laminate. A thicker laminate will serve to protect your binder during the year and give it stability.

I have the office supply worker place my front page on a 11 x 11 piece of card stock. Then they laminate over the whole thing PLUS about an inch PAST my cover page. The same way for the back. The office worker laminates an 11 x 11 piece of card stock for the back.

Even though my pic below is not to scale, there is the same amount of room on both the left side and right side of my cover page as shown by the red arrows. Rounded corners too by laminating – NO sharp corners please!

In other words, my front page of my planner is centered on this 11 x 11 piece of paper with about one inch on each side.

You will notice right away that you do not see ANY of my tabs sticking out or the inside pages as the front and back laminated this way protects all the inside pages.

Here is the pic in case this sounds like “mumbo jumbo”

Each year I decide whether I want to make the front and back cover extra large and have it extend out out past my inside pages or just have the cover I take up to Office Max to be laminated and be regular size with my inside pages.

You decide what you want as I am just sharing my experiences each year.

What do I accomplish this way?

1. It is more sturdier than a clear front and hard back.

2. My front calendar page is protected because it is laminated and not loose.

3. The tabs to my pages are “inside” and protected and not getting bent and caught on everything as I “transport” it or cutting me.

4. I can place my planner down on liquids such as water (I have done it before by accident) and it’s okay because the back protected any pages. Just wipe and go.

5. Did I mention your planner just can look SMOKIN’ HOT? It can even match your purse for the year. ROFL

If you need to Go Back:

Click Here for Step 1 Choose a Pretty Front & Back Cover.

Click Here for Step 2 Choose Calendars & Appointment Keepers

Click Here for Step 3 Choose Goals & Objectives

Click Here for Step 4 Choose Lesson Planning Pages

Click Here for Step 5A Just Unique Forms Just for You

Click Here for Step 5B Just More Unique Forms Just for You

Click Here for Step 5C Just More More Unique Forms Just for You

Click Here for Step 6 Personalize It

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Step 6. Personalize It

When finished, click on the graphic to go to the next page.

About Personalizing It!

What do I mean by this? Well did you notice all the pictures I have in my planner? Since teaching is a work of the heart, I personalized it by adding pictures of our previous school year’s field trips, activities and special moments to remind me of what we DID accomplish the year before instead of all that we did not.

Any “organizing tool” has the ability to be cold, austere and rigid. So that is what I believe anyway..LOL So this makes it warm and inviting and PERSONAL.

Did I mention over the years the pictures make a nice collage for memories as well? Since we don’t really have time to do all things we love, like I would love to scrapbook a memory book each year but right now this will have to do. Too, in this planner you have all the “proof” of what you accomplished by adding your field trip notes and souvenirs and pictures of your co-ops, lapbooks, music recital and dance recitals. Don’t forget to add your child’s art work, drawings, greeting cards received for your work for other homeschoolers and attending/working homeschool conventions. Pretty cool uh?

Basically, I copy and paste pictures and make a collage on one page. You can do this in Word and Open Office or even Paint Net. Paint Net and Open Office are FREE.

Then I print them off on regular paper OR photo paper depending on how much I want to pay and added them inside a page protector AFTER binding the page protector in with the rest of planner. Be sure to decide where you want to place the pictures in your planner, put a page protector there to save that spot.

Add your PHOTO PAGE inside your page protector AFTER you bind it all together.

Tip to remember: You will have two pages of photos per one page protector (front and back). So be sure you have taken enough pictures to add to your binder.

Page Protectors – I put mine at the front and back instead of between lesson planning pages but IF you use the tabs I mention below which are page protectors AND tabs you might not need as many.

About Tab Dividers – Be Picky Very Picky! They are not created equal.

Don’t just buy one, make it WORK for you baby.

The Page Divider needs to serve a dual purpose if it’s going to exist in my planner and not just take up room. Choose one that is a page protector (top loading or opens from top so you can stick in pictures, lose papers or business cards,recipes,etc.) Also you can look for one that is a pocket AND a tab. Think of “storage” anyway you can get it without making your planner so bulky by adding too many plain pockets.

The Avery Protect ‘n’ Tab divider pages are sheet protectors with soft tabs. So the page protectors serve as dividers between sections or you can even divide the lesson planning pages monthly. Sometimes I put page dividers between months (separating out 30 lessons or so but be careful to do this if you feel it makes you seem behind because you have divided it into months).

Here are some Tab Dividers I have used and like.

Avery Protect ‘n’ Tab Tabbed Sheet Protectors Product No. 74160 – 5 Tabs. It also comes in 8 tabs. Did I mention the tabs are so easy to print on with the downloaded template and the colors are beautiful?

Avery Durable Write-On Plastic Dividers with Pockets Product No. 16176 – 5 Tabs. This is another divider I like because this has pockets. The only downside to this is that you have to write on the tabs but they are erasable. The other thing I like about these tabs is that they are a pretty mix of soft colors.

[In] Place Super Heavyweight 5 Tab Sheet Protectors 5 Tabs – at Office Max (some Office Max stores may stop carrying the Avery Tabbed Sheet Protectors/Tabs in favor of their store brand. Fine by me as long as it is the same thing and it is. This is comparable to the Avery Protect /n Tabbed Sheet Protectors. So look for this if you can’t find the Avery product above.

Editable Top Tabs

You have your choice of buying some dividers or using these EDITABLE Top Tabs that I created.

Since the tabs I created are EDITABLE, you can type in your own subjects or sections. The page or grid on the front of each page looks like a calendar but can be used for anything from reference to date tracking or notekeeping. I have instructions on the download on how to use them and set them up but I thought I would add a few thoughts here too.

The colors are lime green, hot pink, orange crush and gray. Just print off as many as you need for your planner and repeat the colors until you get all the sections you want divided.

After you type in the subject or topic on each divider page, you will want to use the back side for something too. I put pictures of our co-ops and field trips on mine. Remember you will need to bump your pictures down some since you have the tab at top. After you add pictures or what ever you want on the back side of the divider page, then cut away the white part that you are not using.

In other words each page will need to have the white area at the top ONLY cut away where the tab is not. Do NOT cut the sides. The width is needed for binding. Only cut the white area away at the top and all the tabs will line up nicely as you place them in the planner.

It is important if you use these tab tops that you make sure your guy or gal that binds it remembers that they need to stick out at the top because the page will be short. They may give you hassle, but it can be done.

Download Editable Top Tabs Here.

What To Put On Tabs?

What to put on your tabs? I have used various names on my TABS over the years depending on what I need from my planner that year. Here are a couple different lists of generally what I have used each year and in the order they are in my planner.

Even though attendance is not required here in Texas, I do this about every 2 years to hold myself accountable and keep a “pulse” on how much we are actually homeschooling for a year.

Sample One – One year from my planner. I used tabs where I could divide all the kid’s work BUT by months.

Attendance Chart

High School

Calendars

Objectives

July – June (1 tab for each month) I prefer to have my tabs reflect each month so I can find it easier in my planner instead of JUST “Lesson Plans”

Reading List

Notes

Sample Two – Another year from my planner. I used tabs where I could divide all the kid’s work BUT by kids, not months. Where I have Child One I put the child’s actual name.

Calendar

Individual Child’s Reading Logs

Child One (name) Lesson Plans

Child Two (name) Lesson Plans

Child Three (name) Lesson Plans

Memory Work

Reading List from (Another Source like WTM or Veritas or Ambleside on line. This helped me to see choices in case what we picked out we didn’t like)

Photo Album (Instead of putting pictures throughout my planner like I do now, a few years I add a separate section for them. You may like this better)

Teacher’s Master Schedule (This helps me to see which kid I am suppose to be working with on which day. )

Notes

Sample Three – Another year from my planner, I used tabs where I wanted to include a list of skills for referral that year. Also, teaching Pre-k and K requires easier lesson plans and separate than older children since those grades you can mostly teach by themes. So Lesson Plans were for my oldest children and Theme Units for my youngest child.

Calendar

Pre-k Skills Check List

2nd Grade Skills Check List

4th Grade Skills Check List

Pre-k – Theme Units

Don’t Forget to Personalize It By Also Adding Pockets

One Very Stiff Page Protector or Pocket – I usually put this at the very back of my planner. I use this pocket to store recipes I get if I am on a field trip visiting with other homeschool moms, business cards, my to-do list, bills for music lessons,etc. I left some cards in there and didn’t entirely clean it out for the year so you could see. Since this pocket gets used more often, I wanted something more sturdier.

I have used half pockets before but small slips of paper where may be I had written another mom’s email or address that I need to contact has fallen out. Since this a page protector, that doesn’t happen. But everything goes here and I clean it out from time to time. Some of the business cards stay there like my son’s orthodontist so I can get the number quickly before I add it to my cell phone…Make sense how I use this pocket?

If you need to Go Back:

Click Here for Step 1 Choose a Pretty Front & Back Cover.

Click Here for Step 2 Choose Calendars & Appointment Keepers

Click Here for Step 3 Choose Goals & Objectives

Click Here for Step 4 Choose Lesson Planning Pages

Click Here for Step 5A Just Unique Forms Just for You

Click Here for Step 5B Just More Unique Forms Just for You

Click Here for Step 5C Just More More Unique Forms Just for You

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Day 31: Ready Set Go! + Pssst Giveaway. {31 Day Boot Camp For New Homeschoolers on My Blog}

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR BEING HERE AND WATCH FOR UPCOMING GIVEAWAYS BY SUBSCRIBING.

Winners Below

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5th. Winner. Comment Number 24.

Free Minoan and Mycenaean Minibook for an Ancient Civilization Study

HOW TO GET THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS II LAPBOOK

5 days of a homeschooling co-op convert-day 5: cherished co-ops

5 Days of A Homeschooling Co-op Convert – Day 4: Co-op Core Leaders Matter

Step 7. Bind It/Love it

Step 7. Final Step. Organize it/Shuffle Sections/Print your Tabs before you take it to be COIL BOUND.

Please Read Here (Under About the Type of Planner Created) Why I Do Not Suggest Notebooks or to use them for only Special Occasions