Each year around this time we really being to see the effects of homeschool curriculum planning for the coming year. From Homeschool Conventions, to planning sales, photos of all the new curriculum purchases and the scores of new people asking the important questions about how to go about doing it. As you may very well […]
As you move from elementary school to the middle school years it becomes increasingly more important to teach your student how to plan and organize their academic time. A good way to work through this process with them is by using a homeschool student planner. Middle school is a good time to work on planning […]
Creating a reading log can be an important part of the paperwork you keep for your homeschool student. While there are many variations of paper reading logs, you can also create an extensive reading log for each of your children using Homeschool Tracker. In my first Homeschool Tracker How To Video I discussed how we […]
Everyone’s homeschool looks different. Every parent and child has different needs. What works for you may not work for me. That being said, we all are just a little curious about what people are using and loving in their homeschools! When I sat down to think about what are the “must have” items for us, […]
I have always been an organizer, a list maker, a type-A high stress need to get things done and checked off kind of person. This desire was no different when it came to beginning homeschooling my first in 2006. I love the smell of new books, the feel of new notebooks, and pencils, and the […]
Planners, calendars, check lists, to-do lists….. What do these have in common? The fact that I love them of course! For that very reason I am so excited to tell you about this new Academic Wall Calendar I am using! We have three kids, and therefore lots of activities to keep straight. With daytime homeschool […]
It is time for the 4th Annual “Not” Back To School Blog Hop! This week is Curriculum Week and everyone is sharing what is on their academic plate for the coming year! We live way up in the north eastern United States and public schools around here don’t start up again until after Labor Day. […]
I began this year anew. I spent the summer embarking on a new planning method for our year. One where everything was planned out ahead of time over 36 weeks and placed into file folders. As I read about doing this from others who had pioneered it before me, there was one piece of […]
So I am now 5 weeks in to my planning for the coming school year. It is amazing to me how I feel as though I have accomplished a lot, and yet hardly anything at all. I am wondering if despite all this hard work, I will even be ready by Sept 12th. My main […]
Week Four continues to bring me knee deep into this planning process. I have been able to add Jayden’s Singapore Math, Jayden’s Spelling, and Chloe’s Writing Strands 3 into Homeschool Tracker+. It was easier than I thought it was going to be once I got the hang of it. I am sure there are more […]
This is the 3rd week in my series that is chronicling my venture into a new planning/filing system for this year. You can check out part I, and II if you missed them. During this week I was able to get started on labeling and adding my files to my box. I used a yellow […]
. This year I am joining in on the 3rd Annual “Not” Back to School Blog Hop. This week is the curriculum link up. Seeing as I am well behind my usual planning target, this link up sort of pushed me to get my ducks in a row, or at least down in print! I […]