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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.

2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule

July 30, 2014 | Leave a Comment
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Yikes! I have been in a panic mode since it has been full speed ahead for moving out of our home. So knowing that I will be traveling soon, I went ahead and prepared the 2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule form.

Remember this is NOT a calendar. Okay, well it is, but it isn’t. Just calendars are kept on STEP 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers.

This is a planning form. There is a fine difference. A calendar is for a reference and a planning schedule is for planning school noting important things that come up in your life which will affect your school.

Since year around homeschooling is an option and it is about planning too, these types of forms are kept on STEP 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You!

Forms on Step 2, which are calendars, are a must-have for your planner but the forms on Step 5 are option forms. This fine difference between the two steps or calendars helps you to stay organized as I always want you to have control over how you put your planner together.

Also, just to remind you of the uses of this form because I have new faces following me, look at these options:

This form works for you if you live in a country where your school year begins with the physical year.
This forms works for you 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 for you if pull your children out mid-school year and want to start planning.

Do you have any other ways you use this form?

Download the 2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule here.

Don’t forget to check out my other forms I made.

Also, don’t Forget – Click on the Graphic Below to Scoot by & Check out the Great Homeschool Sale. I am SO proud to be part of it each year!

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Updated Homeschool Attendance Forms

July 16, 2014 | 10 Comments
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Thank You! I have said it before that the best ideas for updating forms come from you because like me, you want to make them flexible enough for your family too.

Today, I have two updated homeschool attendance forms and I am so excited about them. I have been wanting to add a bit more flexibility to them but I like to take my time when I update my curriculum planner forms because I want them to work for more than just a few homeschoolers too.

I want to Thank Kathy for this comment because as soon as I had time, I updated the attendance form.

Hi Tina,
I LOVE your sheets and ideas. I’ve been following you for two years now.

I noticed in Leeanna’s comment she starts her tracking in May for Ga. The group I’m with in SC starts in June. I was wondering would it be possible to have an attendance chart in the trimesters with blank months. That way we can put down what works for our needs.
In addition, have some extra room for other letter codes ~ ie : The S = sick, H = Holiday, F = Field Trip area.
We don’t have music day, art day, it blends into our days. I had to white out those things and fill in what we did. V = volunteering, L= Lab, T = Latin, and such.
It may help others in the future.

Thanks SO much for all your hard work and thinking of us!
Kathy

Below I created a new graphic explaining the two options and it will eventually be going on the STEP 5 Unique Forms page.

Of course, my love for color has grown since my original Attendance Forms and those forms were in need of some color luv. The Attendance Forms were some of my first forms where I started adding a bit of color not knowing if you would like it or not. I had just started to move away from creating only black and white copies.

I now know you love all the color collages as much as I do.

Here are a few details about the updated forms:

I have 2 options.
Both forms have a place for 4 children. It is not that I have a fondness for the number four (tee hee hee) but that number of columns fits nicely on one page.
Both forms have an expanded Key Area. I added a few more codes too AND I created a few blank lines for codes that may be unique for your family and that you need to track. You just write them in each year.
To allow room for the extra key code area because I was already at the bottom of the page, both forms had to be bumped up a bit. It doesn’t affect binding or anything, I just wanted you to know that height wise it will be a bit taller than the rest of the forms in your planner. I know, a small detail but those things matter when I create forms.
The biggest difference between the forms is that one has a blank area to fill in the month you begin school AND to fill in your semesters. This allows for a lot more flexibility whether you begin tracking in May, June or July. The other form follows all the rest of the forms on my 7 Step Homeschool Planner, which run from July to June (academic year) and allow for year around homeschooling. On this form, the semesters are already filled in too.

Look below at the two different forms.

This one above you add in the months when you begin to homeschool and write in the semesters.

This form matches the rest of my forms that begin on July and go through June for year around homeschooling and it has the months and semesters filled in already.

Download Form Here Where You Add Your Own Month

Download Form Already Filled In.

As the mood creativity strikes, I will be updating more of the forms too.