Class objective: to recognize the size, shape, position/direction of lines, dots, circles, etc. in a defined space. 
You've not heard of shading drills? That's when one practices shading on purpose in a notebook. Keen control of the pen and pencil is really a key part of drawing well.
Children usually like drawing comic strips
No Scrooges allowed! This page features printable gift tags for Christmas and blank tags for anytime. You will find a fudge recipe on this page as well, the joys of the internet are yours!
The bingo games on this page are: Addition Bingo and Multiplication Bingo. There are six cards per printed sheet of paper. The cards are small, measuring just over 3" by 3.5".
I've added 20 new addition and 20 new multiplication drill sheets.
Animals of the World is a printable 32 page booklet. The student is to list animals and draw them in each of the 4 page sections for each of the 7 continents.
A list of 21 themes for drawing assignments.
Basic Information: This is a timer for the desk-sized personal planner. The timer begins at 6 AM and ends at 9 PM. Each hour is divided into 15 minute increments. After 9 PM the remaining 3 lines are unlabeled.
This is a new set of ruled filler paper. I call it standard filler paper because I used 3 standard rule sizes to measure the space between the lines. The sizes are wide rule, medium rule (college ruled), and narrow rule. To make this paper a genuine set, I made four styles of each rule - fully ruled, blank top, ruled on left side, and ruled on right side (with other side being blank).
Half-Sized Household Block Planner for 2012 is online. This year I added two extra December files, a matching ruled paper file, and a back file for the 12-month calendars file. The 2011 files were moved to a new page.
When I redo my website, like I have been doing this year, I try to improve parts of it. In this case, I improved the Drawing with Children overview and lesson plan pages. Lesson 2 is the most changed, so it gets to be linked.
To the 100-number charts page, I added 51 new printable files.
Someone wrote me and asked about my Family Boot Camp today. I described it at my blog 2007, but that article went missing, which is a shame because the comments were lost as well.
Last May I added basic lesson plans for AOP Electives Art Unit 4 - perspective. You can find it under Art > Drawing > Perspective AND under Art > Books > AOP Electives Art
V Planner V.2 is available. V Planner is an XLS file and requires a compatible program such as MS Excel. Access to the file is gained from 
While getting the site-cd updated for the V Planner, I noticed the nifty "Surrounded by a Calendar" row planners were about to become outdated, so I made a whole lot of them - up to 2025 for the Site-Cd; you'll find a more modest amount online.
A few days ago, I took a walk in the woods behind our home to see what was going on there. I came across some lily of the valley plants that were in bloom. ... 
This item, the Homeschool XLS Term Dates Calculator, is an xls file that requires a spreadsheet program. With this file, go through 5 steps and on the 6th step, the calculator will return school term days.
In the section Handwriting > By Styles there are 52 new cursive handwriting lessons in a style similar to Zaner-Bloser.
The site-cd, YoungMinds, is available for sale after having been unavailable because of our home repairs.
This is a new Manuscript Handwriting Set. The letter style is similar to Zaner-Bloser. There are over 500 worksheets & the handwriting rule is approximately 14 mm tall.
DonnaYoung.org has 62 more manuscript handwriting animations. You can see them starting here: The Art Section
Drawing With Children Overview and Lesson Plan Suggestions
I've written several articles aimed at helping the homeschooler use this book for art classes.
Drawing With Children, Lesson 1, Overview and Lesson Suggestions for Lesson 1
Lesson 2, Overview and Lesson Plan Suggestions
Lesson 3 Overview and Lesson Plan Suggestions
AOP LifePac Electives Art
I used AOP LifePac Electives Art for high school art. I've written several articles about the books.
Lesson Plans for Unit One
Units One and Two Week by Week
AOP Art Unit 4, Perspective - Lesson Plans
Planning Guide- AOP LifePac Electives Art - Unit 7 Comics
Newest Content In Art
2009: I have been working for a couple of months to revise the art section at DY and today, I uploaded some of the new pages. Some of the pages are unfinished, but online anyway. Almost every area in the art section is unfinished. Expect to run across typos, misspelled words, or broken links, it takes me a while to get everything right and it will take a while to finish all of the areas in art. Because so much is new, I will post a list of home pages and pages with new printable files. 2011: The art section continues to be an ongoing project.
- Rewritten: Drawing With Children, Lesson 2, Overview | Lesson
- AOP Lifepac Art Unit I Lesson Plans
- Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4, Perspective - Lesson Plans
- One-Point Perspective Grid
- Linear Perspective Models Using the DML
- Christmas Gift and Plain Tags to Decorate
- Planning Guide- AOP Electives Art - Unit 7 Comics
- Drawing With Children, Lesson 3
- Gallery - Caravaggio, Rembrandt [Shading & History]
- Drawing With Children, Lesson 2, Overview | Lesson
- Homeschool Art Topics by Grade, k and 1st uploaded, Color Names, Coloring Shapes
- In Drawing: sighting, perspective, and shading [will add more later]
- Color Study Printables
- Snowman Picture [and crafts moved from Homeschooling Section]
- Books and 9 weeks of AOP Electives Art
- Art Supplies [6 pages]
- Drawing with Children [3 pages]
