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Free 2016 to 2017 Year Round Homeschool Planning Form

May 19, 2016 | 11 Comments
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Getting prepared to speak at the convention in Atlanta has me so giddy, I can hardly prepare my planning forms. Well almost, because it would take an act of nature to keep me from getting my forms ready for the 7 Step Homeschool Planner. I always manage to make time for them.

Today, I have the second color choice and I luv it so I named it Color Luv because of my obsession for color. I hope you find color luv addicting too. My form is the free 2016 to 2017 Year Round Homeschool Planning form.

Keep in mind, even if you choose not to homeschool year round, this planning form, which is VERY different from a calendar will still help you to track and plan your homeschool year.

I have all 12 months on it, which means you can start on any month that you begin homeschooling and move forward to plan your year.

Remember, I have plain calendars (okay, they are not so plain, but I mean just calendars) on Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers. The calendars and 2 page spread appointment keeper are for appointments and have more room for writing.

The form today is to plan your homeschool year with days off, teacher planning days and holidays to take off. It gives you a glimpse of your homeschool year.

Because this form is not a calendar but more of a planning tool, I keep it each year at Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You!

If you need to see how to use it go to that step Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You! to look at my sample copy.

Download Here Free 2016 to 2017 Color Luv Year Round Homeschool Planning Form.

By the way, here is the other free color choice, Powder Puff of the 2016 to 2017 Year Round Homeschool Planning form if you want a second color in your planner or you may want to use one to print off like a draft to plan/jot on it and use another color to print and put in your planner for your actual schedule that you will follow. That is what I do.

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Did you notice how beautiful this free form blends with the Tender Homeschool Cover? Hot Hot!

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Okay, you know I luv ya and enjoy,

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!

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Why Nobody Cares if You Homeschool Year-Round (or shouldn’t)

May 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment
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While I sit here writing this article, my husband has made a change into a new career that we’ve planned for and are excited about. Starting out, it means working 7 days a week from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Grueling schedule to say the least for him, and I’m right there cooking/packing every meal for him because his workplace doesn’t have a restaurant. And a lot of times, he can’t leave the building for lunch or his lunch is shortened back from one hour.

Back to my point, what does this have to do with homeschooling year-round? Everything, for me.

That is just the point, my schedule has nothing to do with your family’s schedule and the schedules of other families have nothing to do with mine.

I too have shared many times over about the the advantages of homeschooling year-round, but it’s more important to know how to tell if you can instead of telling you why you should.

Look at Homeschooling Year Round Chaos or Calm, What is Year Around Homeschooling Part 1 and Part 2 if you want some more tips.

Homeschooling too is about not being sorry or feeling guilty for things you can’t control.

3 Quick Tips to Adapt to Homeschooling Year-Round

Instead of sharing pros and cons of homeschooling year-round because they won’t help one bit if you can’t, I want to share how to tell if you should even consider it.

Family schedule matters.

There is just no getting around it, your child’s learning ability can’t be the only weighing factor as to whether or not you homeschool year-round.

For example, my husband’s schedule is pretty predictable right now.

Homeschooling year-round gives me to time to plod along when I am getting up every morning at 4:30 to 5:00 a.m.

I wake my kids right up alongside us because I need my whole household to be on the same schedule.

By the way, this is a tried and trued tip, which has worked for me as we have experienced many different schedules. It is just too hard, not to mention stressful when half of your family gets up when they want to or some other hour and the other half doesn’t.

Guess what? The do-whatever-you -want-to- schedule for the kids comes back to bite you when you need your household quiet for the Mr. or even for a younger child.

This summer, instead of starting school at 9:00 or 9:30 a.m. like we use to, we start school closer to 8:00 a.m. or even before because we have been up for a while, finished chores and are ready for our day.

I remember back to our very first co-op I attended where the leader canceled school for the summer. I was puzzled because my kids were little and I was ready to keep on going.

Finding out later that day that her husband was the head coach at the local public school, I learned right away how a family schedule affects year round-homeschooling.

Who wants to have such a rigid day of homeschooling when dad is off for the summer? Not me.

Seasons matter.

I would like to say that seasons don’t matter here in Texas, but when you have 3 days of winter (okay, we had a bit more this year) and a lot of summer heat, days are long and hot.

Having the top of my kids’ heads baked just never appealed to me. Our time outdoors during the summer months is limited to a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening.

Guess what? That is a lot of in between time, which needs to be filled with meaningful activities.

For a majority of our homeschool years we have homeschooled during the summer than not because it filled our days with meaning and it also meant we could skip school on days when the weather changed to glorious.

When it is spring or fall, we don’t feel guilty spending a lot of time outdoors because we’re normally well ahead in our curriculum.

High School matters.

The few times we have followed a traditional public school schedule is when my oldest two sons graduated.

Whether your child is interested in going to college right away, starting a career or doing some Bible based work, you need to be sure he starts off right by finishing school close to the time he suppose to graduate.

There is nothing that stresses a responsible homeschooled teen more than having the feeling of being behind because he has a life after homeschooling.

Whether you read the pros and cons of homeschooling year-round, it shouldn’t matter to you because many years, homeschooling year-round has little to do with whether you want to or not and a lot to do with your family’s present groove.

Mercifully, homeschooling fits your circumstances and circumstances can change quickly.

By the way, I love this new schedule as we have all settled into it and knowing my husband’s deployment will be a few short months, like 3 or 4 at a time, I find the good in it.

Did I mention how much I get done each day by being up early every day? Here and there he may have off Sundays and that is a plus too.

Hugs and 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.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

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.

7 Advantages to Starting Your Homeschool Year in the Summer

May 9, 2015 | 6 Comments
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When I started my summer homeschool year, we still enjoyed summer fun like outdoor barbecues with traditional tasty Texas beef brisket, swimming parties and some putt-putt golf. Besides knowing how to homeschool means you learn flexibility quickly.

Did you know that it was not until my sons started high school that I started my homeschool year in the more traditional month of August?

7 Advantages to Starting Your Homeschool Year in the Summer

There are 7 advantages of starting your home school year in the summer for both seasoned and new homeschoolers.

Seven Advantages to Starting Your Year In the Summer

When the first day of school is in August, it feels like a race from the beginning.

1. Euphoric Feeling of Being Ahead.

Being able to dawdle at the beginning of the summer school year feels like a luxury and it sets a relaxed pace.

2. Curriculum Not a Good Fit?

One of the most important reasons I liked starting in summer was that it allowed me time to use a new curriculum for a few months to see if it was a fit for me and my kids.

This is a priceless perk because if it’s not working, nothing is really lost.

There is still time to switch curriculum and keep on schedule.

3. Complete Shipments.

We use many physical books and I get my shipment complete and in record time because companies are not really busy yet.

Too, I am able to telephone and chat if I need to with a curriculum vendor about his or her product because the early part of summer is not as busy.

4.Slower Start Equals Greater Momentum Later.

Another insider tip is that there is no need to start all of your new homeschool curriculum on the first day. Why do we think that we have to do that?

The more children you have the more stressful this can be.

Start with one new curriculum and then gradually fold the others in. Until I started doing that, I was not really reading the instructions on the best way how to use my new gems.

Each week, I folded in another new resource savoring the tips shared, making adjustments to our schedule until we found a schedule that would work for the new year.

5. Meaningful Break from Co-ops and Classes.

A lot of co-ops and classes follow a traditional public school schedule.

This can be a peaceful break from the stress of having to be on the road each week.

With no piano classes to take the kids to or co-ops to attend, those few months of meaningful school without having to break up the day have been some of our best teaching moments.

6. History and Science Immersion.

What do kids clamor for more of and we struggle the most with?

Getting to the best part of homeschooling, which is hands-on activities for science and history.

Taking a few days here and there, without covering any other subject, we immersed ourselves the whole day into history or science projects.

Being able to sprawl out our crafts, books, maps or play-doh for the day and make one activity after the other was a welcomed changed to the fast pace of a traditional school year.

7. School Supplies Binges.

Okay, shopping early before school supplies are all picked over may not be an advantage for those that don’t gush over new office supplies, organizational thinga-ma-jigs, pens, binders and folders.

You know I have a ~~sickness~~ passion for cool supplies, new notebooks and notebook binders.

Don’t give up the fun and long lazy days of summer.

Use them to kick start your homeschool year in a relaxed way.

What do you like best about starting your homeschool year in the summer?

Look at these other tips:

7 Advantages to Starting Your Homeschool Year in the Summer 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

The Sticking Power of a Solid Homeschool Schedule

June 6, 2014 | 7 Comments
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The staying power of a homeschool schedule cannot be underestimated for the organized homeschooler. It takes time and self-discipline though to stick to a schedule.

POWER OF A HOMESCHOOL SCHEDULE

Too, I have a bit of trepidation in sharing about this topic.

It has been my experience that homeschoolers obsess worry about this topic more so than some other homeschooling issues.

Deep down they truly care how to fit everything in a day, maintain their sanity and identity, and strive to make the homeschool journey a memorable one for the right reasons.

The staying power of a homeschool schedule cannot be underestimated for the organized homeschooler. It takes time and self-discipline though to stick to a schedule. Click here to grab these tried and true tips for planning a schedule!

Sometimes they feel isolated because they think other homeschoolers manage their schedules better.

Doing what I love to do and sharing with you just two points that help me to organize and what sometimes {not always} comes easier for me, I hope to give you a gentle sweet nudge in the right direction.

You are not alone in your struggle to make it all fit in a day.

Homeschool Schedule Equals A Plan of Action

Visible Schedule. Achieving success starts by creating a visible schedule. I know, you may think that is stating the obvious, but I promise there is a fundamental, but powerful point here.

Understanding that your schedule needs to be visible is the first step to a well-defined plan of action.

This is a very fine and let me emphasize that again—very fine point—that makes a huge difference between the organized homeschooler and the wanna be organized homeschooler.

Having good intentions by going through your schedule in your mind keeps it just that – a thought.

It is not a call to action or a plan.

Staying in your mind is sort of like keeping it at brainstorming level or at a mulling over stage.

Too, if you have a creative solution for a hiccup in your schedule, then you want to quickly commit that to a point of action.

When a schedule is committed to paper (or any other location in your house) it becomes a plan of action. It has gone from abstract to concrete. Does that make sense?

Paper method is just one way that a schedule is visible. It is my preferred way, but it does not have to be your way.

Shocking Invisible Homeschool Schedules

Avoid schedule type mayhem. In addition, what type of schedule you create depends on which family members you want to make aware of it.

Don’t just jump out there in your enthusiasm to organize and create something that hems you in.

Carefully scrutinize the needs and ages of your household. It will change and your need for different schedules will change.

For example, when the kids were little and though I hadn’t moved away from stepping in sync with a public school schedule.

I still presented what worked for them at a very young age which was simply something hanging on the wall to talk about each day.

At that time though I still had my schedule down on paper though it was not necessary to share it with my young kids.

Also, having more than one place or location for your plan of action is a recipe for success.

How? Because you have just doubled your efforts to help you accomplish each task day by day by sharing it with your children.

Many hands do make the work light or in this case, keep all on task.

Children have a natural bent toward routine. If you want to be more organized, use that natural bent toward helping you to flow through a day with a better plan of action.

Homeschool Organization Means Communication

As your children grow older, they become self-starters and built in motivators when they don’t even know it.

On more than one occasion when my sons were very young, they would prod me by asking if it was time to start our school or task.

Then last year, I shared my Woo-Worthy Big Calendar by NeuYear that I had visible in my house for a while.

Even though I had already started downsizing for our move, a temporary command center was a must.

The ages of my children have now changed dramatically, but the need of a visible place to communicate my plan of action has not.

Whether you put your schedule in a student planner, your homeschool planner, on a wall, on your refrigerator, or a central place in your home, it needs to be visible to accomplish your plan of action for that year.

A homeschool schedule is the backbone of homeschool success and a visible schedule has helped me over more than one homeschool hurdle through the years.

However, a common mistake in creating a homeschool schedule that has sticking power is to plan hour by hour, minute by minute and what seems second by second.

Next, I will share a few tips so that your plan of action keeps you organizing instead of agonizing.

How many places do you post your homeschool schedule?

Want some more tips about scheduling?

Hugs and love ya,

yeararoundhomeschool

Free 2016 to 2017 Year Round Homeschool Planning Form

Download Here Free 2016 to 2017 Color Luv Year Round Homeschool Planning Form.

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

Why Nobody Cares if You Homeschool Year-Round (or shouldn’t)