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Free Homeschool Academic Year Calendar {2017 to 2018}

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Serene Color Choice. Grab your free 2017 to 2018 Academic Year Calendar @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I’m always excited when I can start planning early for the next school year by having a new form and today I have the first free homeschool academic year calendar for the 2017 to 2018 school year ready.

Just as a reminder, I keep the choices for this academic year calendar form on Step 2 each year and I normally try to give you 3 smokin’ hot choices.

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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 always on Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You.

step-5a-of-the-7-step-free-homeschool-planner-tinas-dynamic-homeschool-plusLook below at the picture (sample from previous year) below 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.

This is a PLANNING calendar from Step 5a. So you want to get BOTH types of calendars.

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Also, this calendar today 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 of a 2 page spread calendar, which gives you room to write appointments.

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2017 to 2018 Academic Year Glamorous 2 Pages at a Glance @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

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 on in the back so I don’t have to hunt very long for it.

Grab your free copy below!

Grab your free 2017 to 2018 Academic Year Homeschool Calendar here which I named Serene.

And if you want to begin building your FREE 7 Step Curriculum Planner, start here.

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!

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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DIY Undated 12 Month Calendar | Organized Planner

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I created this diy undated 12 month calendar so you can use it in multiple type of planners. Too, look at my Homeschool Planner for more free beautiful forms.

Remember this? I loved sharing my free printables and tips for my home management binder.

But it’s in need of an update.

It’s been about four years since I’ve updated it and a lot of things have changed.

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The first thing that I need to update is the diy undated 12 month calendar.

The last set I did to use in the home management binder was hard to use.

I’m not sure what I was thinking when I created it.

Home Management Binder @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus

I must have had an out of body experience because it was so hard to read.

Of course, like I said that was almost four years ago and my experience in printables has grown tremendously (thank goodness).

Today, I have updated this set of undated monthly calendars because it is the one I prefer to use in my home management binder.

I prefer to use this set because I can add two or three years of the same month in my binder, which is a huge motivator for me as I track and plan our family life and look over the past year, current year and next year.

DIY Undated 12 Month Calendar @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

By simply filling out the calendars as needed, I have a ready made calendar at my finger tips.

However, the other thing too that unnerves me about writing in planners and calendars is that I’m a little obsessed with having lines to write on when I add a date or track information on my planner.

DIY Undated 12 Month Calendar | Organized Planner

So not only did I make the calendar pages easier to read, but I added lines for writing.

Too, for my home management binder, I wanted a full page to write on and I also added a place at the bottom of each month for note taking.

Of course you can use these fee calendars on my

How to Get the Free Printable

Now, how to grab the free printable. It’s a subscriber freebie.

When you sign up to follow me, you get access to this freebie.

 1) Sign up on my email list.
 2) Grab the printable now – instantly.
3) Last, look for my emails in your inbox as a follower. Glad to have you.

I hope you love the update.

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2018 Two Page Per Month Calendar For Your Homeschool Planner

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2018 Physical Year Glamorous Calendar. Get all 12 months for this calendar geared toward the academic year @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Rolling out my first color choice, which is glamorous for the 2018 two page per month calendar, I’m excited to have it out so early.

If you’re like me, you want to have calendars for at least two years in your planner.

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Too, keep in mind all of the options for the two page per month calendars are kept here at Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers.

Today, though I have what I call the glamorous 2 page calendar. It’s glamorous and beautiful, which is how I like all my forms.

Look at these details to see what you get.

Two Pages Per Month.

  • 25 pages.
  • Like my academic year 2 page spread calendars, you get a full year with this download.
  • You can use this calendar to add to your home management binder, my forever blog planner or to your 7 Step Homeschool Planner.
  • 12 months. Begins January 2018 and Ends December, 2018.
  • Color Calendar
  • Digital .pdf download, you print.
  • Boxes are bigger on a 2 page per month spread so that you have more room to write important appointments for both school and home.
  • Purchase one this color and purchase one another color for your second planner.

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Important: READ THIS FIRST.
Before you email me asking where your download link is or tell me that it is not working, read this to ensure that you get your pretties timely and that you don’t pay for something and not get it.

• All my products are digital. You will not receive a physical product for anything in my store. A digital physical year calendar does not mean a physical product or calendar.
• Downloads are INSTANT. When you pay, you will receive an email with a download link INSTANTLY. Depending on your internet connection, the email could be just 30 seconds or so, or a bit longer. The point is it will be soon, not a week later,etc.
• The email with the download link will go to the email you used for paypal. If you used your husband’s paypal, your downloads will go to that email. Please check that email and your spam before emailing me telling me you can’t find it.
• Please put my email tina @ tinasdynamichomeschoolplus dot com (of course substitute the right symbol for dot) in your address/contact list so that your product does not go to spam.

MY GUARANTEE: To treat you like I want to be treated which means I know at times technical problems may cause glitches, so I will do everything possible to make your experience here pleasant. I value your business and value you as a follower. I stand behind my products because they are actual products I use and benefit from too. Though I cannot refund purchases after you have been given access to them, I will do what I can to be sure you are a pleased customer.

You can grab it today for .99.


Hugs and love ya,

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If you want to see the other options for the two page per month calendars, then go to STEP 2.

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Free Rolling To-Do List (for your Homeschool or Blog Planner)

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Free Rolling To-Do List (for your Homeschool or Blog Planner) @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PlusBlogging goals are somewhat like homeschooling goals, but not exactly when it comes to meeting deadlines. As I homeschool, I only have the goals for my children that I want to meet.

As a homeschool blogger I collaborate with others. That means there are some deadlines, goals and tasks that need to be done, which are out of my control.

Also, some of the tasks that I need to do can wait for weeks and months and others need to be addressed quickly. Still other goals or projects require multiple steps that don’t necessarily go on the blog pages I use now for each month.

I know you don’t necessarily follow me because you blog, but I do know that certain times in your homeschool journey you have much to do as well and need a place to dump it.

Flexible Rolling To-Do List

So because I needed this form for my blog and I know you probably could use it too for your homeschool or blog, I am sharing this Rolling To-Do List with you freely instead of adding it to my Forever Blog Planner.

Forever Blog Planner 361 pages. The Ultimate Blog Planner @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus store

The reason I named it a rolling to-do list is because there is no date on it for each month. You just keep adding your to-dos and rolling them over onto the next page while you mark off what you have completed.

I will be placing my rolling to-do list pages at the front of my blog planner for now.

As I complete the tasks, I will check them off or put an arrow if I need to move that task forward to another page.

Like I mentioned, I can check off the list and keep using another page or rewrite a task if I want to onto another page.

It’s a place to dump all that is on your mind.

This rolling list just lets me keep on adding and scrolling through it and it is flexible. I don’t have to decide which month to put a task at the moment. I just simply note it to get it off my mind.

 

I love forms that are flexibility and I’m excited to use it. I hope you can use it as well.

Download the Free Rolling Printable To-Do List Here.

Also look at these other snazzy forms you may like: How to Choose the BEST Homeschool Lesson Planning Pages THIS Year, Homeschool Quarter Planning Form – Free UNIQUE 7 Step Planner and How to Grade a Homeschool Unit Study for an Older Child (& high school assessment).

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The BEST Homeschool Lesson Planning Pages to Choose THIS Year

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How to choose the best homeschool lesson planning pages is not always easy. Also, look at my page Homeschool Planner and 7 Step Curriculum Planner for more homeschool planning pages.

Through the years the needs of my children and myself have changed; I’ve created homeschool pages to meet those needs.

Your needs change each year too and so should your planner.

That was was/is my absolute driving inspiration as I build my 7 Step Free Homeschool Planner. And it’s also why I share it with you.

Today, I want to share some tips of how to choose the best homeschool lesson planning pages each year so that you make a great fit.

After all, the right tool can make the difference between a useful or completely useless tool.

Your needs change each year too and so should your homeschool planner, which was/is my absolute and driving inspiration as I build my 7 Step Free Homeschool Planner. And it's also why I share it with you. Click here!

And of course, the best way I learned the difference between lesson pages is to compare them.

I rounded up my forms and put them here for you to compare.

Look at these homeschool pages I have created and used at one point one or another and my explanation a my homeschool journey has unfolded.

I am hoping it will help you to decide which lesson planning page you need this.

One// Timeless, classic and working hard!

You can find my timeless original lesson planning here.

Traditional Lesson Planning @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

This is the best working horse of my homeschool lesson planning pages and the one I used for many years while the kids were young.

It is what I call my original lesson planning page because it was a breakthrough from the traditional ones I thought I was forced to buy.

Look at how I created it:

  • to be a daily (NOT A WEEKLY) workhorse because I needed room to write.
  • to use with 3 or more kids. Remember that unless you have 4 high school kids, not all of your kids do the same amount of workload. So add a line at the bottom and divide the bottom area for space for your younger kids who do not have as much of an academic load to jot down.
  • because it is not a weekly glance, the planner is thinner when you utilize front/back printing.
  • to write down content subjects at the bottom because content subjects don’t have to be done every day and you want to teach your kids together.
  • also it is NOT dated. You fill in as you school. No erasing or no feeling that you get behind with a dated planner.

Two// Flexible, beautiful AND colorful.

You can find this Glammed Up Option here.

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Then when I realized I would be using this for many years, I decided to do a Glammed Up option because I love pretty planners.

Besides when I look at something year after year, it has to be bright, cheery AND a workhorse.

Homeschool Unit Study Lesson Planning @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You can find this lesson planning page as part of my Ultimate Unit Study Planner.

Three// Whoa girlfriend! Relax.You got this!

Then as I ventured out and started creating my own lesson plans and relaxed, I realized I had other needs then. So I created this next lesson planning page.

Look at how I created it.

  • Weekly spread with room for fewer notes since I wanted to relax a bit.
  • But, I added the subject boxes to the right so that I could keep myself accountable and to see that I was doing more school than I realized and which activities fell into which school subjects. I also maintained a way to check boxes at the top to see where we were at during the year as far as weeks, days and quarters,etc.
  • Also, I made this so it could be used with multiple ages and where I could divide the lesson plans by ages NOT the kids. This allowed me to pick from lower grade lesson plans and higher grade lesson plans.
  • I think this works great with a more relaxed approach and even with unschooling because it gives you a place to jot notes and then check subject boxes that match those notes.

You can find this lesson planning page as part of my Ultimate Unit Study Planner.

High School Planning @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Click here to download the free High School Planning page.

Four// Oh heck, high school. Yikes!

Then as life would have it, can you believed we finally reached high school planning? Then I had to start high school planning.

The beauty of this form is that you can print it alongside any of the other forms for the other grades your children are in.

So you can pick and choose one of the above AND this one.

Too, I used my free Student Planners at this point too.

This helps you to balance some of the planning when your teen is involved.

Extremely flexible homeschool lesson planning @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You can find this page as part of my Ultimate Unit Study Planner.

Having experienced many seasons of homeschooling, I am now down to homeschooling one child.

My needs again have changed and this is the next page that I have been using.

Look at how I created it.

  • This is a monthly glance for a more relaxed view on lesson planning.
  • I love it because you can write notes for one child or multiple.
  • It has one line per day for emphasis more on journaling than detailed lesson plans for each homeschool day.
  • It includes a space for the weekend especially when you need this for a state where you are tracking hours or it’s good for a high school child where you want to track credits.
  • It would also work well for unschooling or relaxed school where you don’t need as much room for detailed lessons plans
  • It still has a place for objectives and it has a place to write in the week instead of Lesson 1, Lesson, 2 and etc.

I hope the fine and subtle differences between these pages will help you to choose one or more which will work for you instead of you conforming to a system that isn’t working for you.

Which stage are you at?

Remember too, that you can mix and match pages too. SO worth creating your own UNIQUE planner with my pages here.

Ready to . . .

Begin building your UNIQUE 7 Step Homeschool Planner!

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,

Signature T

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.