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Great website, wonderful useful forms. I especially like the half page items.



Am looking for a form that covers "things my family should know" or items like insurance policy names and numbers, bank accounts info. etc.



Anyone know of a location or can you do that for us too Donna?

— Connie · Jan 20, 10:31 PM · #

Almost forgot - anyone know of a good hole punch for halfpage use - the seven hole type? One I bought is too dull to cut the paper.

— Connie · Jan 20, 10:34 PM · #

You are welcome Stacy. :)

— DY · Jan 22, 09:26 PM · #

I have one similar to that on the site-cd. Not quite though, it is mostly important phone numbers and other things such as allergies and medical information.



Dare I announce this? I hope to make a whole new half-page set. I could add that type of form to my list of styles to make for donnayoung.org.

— DY · Jan 22, 09:32 PM · #

I also wish I knew of a good 7-hole punch.

— DY · Jan 22, 09:33 PM · #

HI Donna,

Thanks for the cool new DY button:) I just put it up.

Lisa

— Lisa · Jan 24, 10:51 PM · #

Donna,

What a wonderful thought - new set of half page items. You are the best! I do look forward to it.



I do not mean to be morbid asking about a page for things a family should know in the event of the death of a loved one.



My precious daughter died last December and now my mother is in the advanced stages of Alzheimers and has had a stroke. She cannot tell me where some things are. She had told me originally a lock box but I believe in the earlier stages of Alzheimer`s she moved things and cannot remember. If families had a form with the information needs can be cared for even before the original documents are located.



Just for your consideration. Thanks.



Connie

— Connie · Jan 26, 07:05 AM · #

You are welcome Lisa. And thank you for using the button. :)

— DY · Jan 26, 04:27 PM · #

Thank you so much for providing such wonderful resources! I love your website!! I am trying to print a copy of the typeable header green vertical calendar for August 08 through 09. I keep getting an error message that states that the link appears broken. Can you provide any suggestions?

— Wil · Feb 2, 07:01 PM · #

Hi, Donna. Thank you so much for this website...it is a great help to me as I homeschool my boys. I am looking for flashcards that have 1 hour = 60 minutes, ect...do you have those on here and I just can`t "see past the mustard"?

Thanks!

— Mickelle · Feb 2, 07:05 PM · #

Donna, Just a note to say thanks for telling folks about my Veggie Planting Slide Chart, and sending them to our site. Our customers are telling us you sent them.



Clyde

Clyde`s Garden Planner

— Clyde Majerus - of Clyde`s Garden Planner · Feb 12, 11:27 AM · #

Thank you for asking about that file. The link was broken. It is fixed now.

— Donna Young · Feb 16, 09:06 PM · #

Your seeing is fine. I do not have flash cards like that.

— Donna Young · Feb 16, 09:07 PM · #

I love the Edwardian 6-day weekly planner. Do I remember wrong or wasn`t there a Journal page to go along with it some years ago? I really would like a set in the same font, call me silly but I really feel inspired by the "old-fashioned" script.

— Monica Carlsson · Feb 21, 01:01 PM · #

Hello Monica,

There is a journal that matches it, but it is not online right now. it is a different journal style though, it is divided into 5 rows and has two columns.



Sometime this year I am planning to upload two sets that uses an old fashioned script: Edwardian and Alexia. I currently have a file started containing the Edwardian planners and I will redo all of them. When I finish with them and upload them, they will be placed in the section: Homeschool Planner > Sets

http://donnayoung.org/forms/planners/sets.htm

— Donna Young · Feb 21, 05:49 PM · #

I just want to say thank you. Every year, I attempt to place my children in public school hoping that it will allow me to work from home more and tend to my toddler but each time with the 2 oldest, situations keep occurring that remind me why they do not need to be there. I have 1 graduate and a now 7th grader that I just pulled out of public school yesterday. I have saved this site to my favorites and so grateful that I did. Thank you again, I could never have successfully educated the now graduate nor my new student with you or your site:). Peace and blessings to you.

— gmc · Feb 25, 02:52 PM · #

Thank you GMC and you are welcome. :)

— Donna Young · Feb 26, 09:35 PM · #

I do not know where to begin...

This is a great site. I have been homeschooling for 23 years and

my youngest is now in 11th grade. We were independent for many years, but even support groups did not have the resources I needed. The forms, lists..I created by hand when we first began and have gradually computerized our school.

I am going to send your site info to my niece and other homeschoolers, beginners and those in the thick of it. It is an amazing resource.

We are doing apologia chemistry and considering Physics. Where are you located?

Thank you, so much.

P.S. I was loking on-line for a grade calculator and found the site...you`d think, after all these years :0

— BarbaRA · Feb 28, 02:10 AM · #

HI Donna:



I am trying to print the half-sized calendars and to-do lists, but nothing happens. I have Vista -- could that be the problem?

— Stacey · Feb 28, 07:56 PM · #

I do not know what could be wrong. Usually I tell those who are having trouble printing from the web site to download the file to their hard drive and print it from there.

— Donna Young · Mar 1, 04:27 PM · #

Hi Barbara, thank you for writing. :) I live in east Tennessee.

— Donna Young · Mar 1, 04:45 PM · #

Hi Donna,

I am very thankful for your website and the tips you have included. Our household has been homeschooling for about 13 years and about a year ago someone offered me this site as a reference. It is a really helpful all rounder for me to keep things well presented and in order. You have offered a wealth of detail at the ease of the computer.



I greatly appreciate that you have put in so much time and effort for those of us who are needing some sorting out to end each week without concern that something has been left out.



Kind Regards,

Judy

— Judy McDougall · Mar 17, 05:37 AM · #

Hi, Donna--such great forms & organization of your day! However, I can`t imagine getting everything done that you do, before coffee!!! Do you have a suggested morning schedule for non-morning-people, such as myself? Just imagine that you die every night, and wake up comatose, then gradually "boot up" as the "morning pain" ebbs away, and clearer thinking begins with coffee. (I also can`t imagine cleaning multiple toilets, sinks, & laundry so early in the day.) :) Do you actually disinfect/totally clean every toilet daily? Should I? Is ther a way to spread these things out in the latter parts of the day?

Also, I thought a database format for this would be wonderful (tho I can`t make them myself), so that one does not have to find so many places on the page to keep on track--it would simply print each item on each relevant day...on say, a weekly or monthly calendar (list or box format).

Challenged, but growing,

Mimi B

— Mimi B · Mar 19, 02:31 PM · #

Marty, you could format the box to "shrink to fit." This would make it all visible. As long as it is a close fit, it won`t be too minimized & would still be readable.



If you enter a lot & therefore could not read the shrunken text, you can always either expand the box (drag the outline for the whole row or column), or do a "merge & center" command to combine the box with an adjacent one.



Finally, you could try printing your page in landscape, if things are ging cut off on widthwise, rather than lengthwise. Hope some of this helps!



(Excel I know...but not Access databases, which seem so useful!)

— Mimi B · Mar 19, 02:36 PM · #

HI Mimi,

Change the schedule! My list of things (which is outdated) is just there to fill in space, sort of like an example, maybe a bad one. ;) Make it suit how you do things. Reschedule (or drop) all the morning chores if you`d rather not do any then. :)



I do not thoroughly brush and disinfect the toilets every single morning; that is now a once a week job. What I do in the morning is wipe the toilets with Clorox wipes every morning or just about every morning. I do not always get to everything. :)

— Donna Young · Mar 20, 06:55 PM · #

Hi Donna! I love LOVE the calendars and planner and everything, but I have a question: What program do you use to create the calendars? I use your attendance calendar, but I am really needing one that is divided into trimesters... Sept-Dec., Jan-April, May-August. Unless you happen to have one of those buried in your hard drive somewhere... :) Otherwise I thought about trying to make one myself. Do you use Publisher? Excel? Word? (Photoshop is more my familiar area!)

Can I pick your brain? :D Thanks!

— Dawn · Mar 30, 04:51 PM · #

Dawn, I use Excel.



Which attendance calendar do you use? The 2-page or the green one?



Do you need a 3-page calendar? Or a 1-page with a format that runs each 4-month group down in a 3-column format? (can you tell I like calendars :) )



If you only need a one-page calendar that starts in September, there is one among the blue and white group on the school calendar page:

http://donnayoung.org/calendars/school-calendars.htm

— Donna Young · Mar 30, 10:27 PM · #

I use the 2-page one that has six months on each page. What I need is a 3-page calendar with four months per page, two per column, just like the one I am using now. So it would be set up for trimesters rather than semesters. I love this calendar, btw, it just doesn`t exactly fit what we do! :) Do you have one? I guess I am like you because I like calendars too!

— Dawn · Mar 30, 11:33 PM · #

Dawn, I could add a few rows to the 2-page calendar to make one like that.

— Donna Young · Mar 31, 09:21 AM · #

Thank you!!

— Dawn · Mar 31, 10:00 PM · #

You are welcome! I am glad that you ask me about the calendar.



The 3-page calendar is roomy enough to use for a new planner set that I am working on. I`ll use it for the attendance/school calendar for the new set.



Let me get one of the files and link it so anyone who wants to have a look, can:

3P-C-Calendar

— Donna Young · Apr 2, 09:04 PM · #

Hi Donna,



Thank you for having a wonderful website with so many useful printables that make homeschooling a little easier and more organized.



I have used many of your blank forms for our end of the year evaluation the past couple of years and enjoy the convenience of your blank forms for organizing all the material.



What I really wish you had and I have been unable to find anywhere and can`t figure out how to make is a thirteen month school calendar with ruled lines for notes and have the option to pick the beginning and ending month. For us, and probably other homeschoolers, having the option to choose which month (not just June or July) would be a boon since some of us have a different year end month. Ours is usually May. Also, having a 13 month calendar is helpful since our start date is usually not on the first and ending on the last day of the month.



Is this type of calendar something you would be likely to offer in the near future. I sure could use it for our portfolio evaluation in several weeks.



Thanks again.

— Kalia · Apr 20, 04:01 PM · #

Kalia, that sort of calendar can be accomplished with a spreadsheet. I`ll put it on my list, but can`t say when I will get around to doing something like that. I have a very long list.

— Donna Young · Apr 25, 02:25 PM · #

Thank you.

— Kalia · Apr 26, 09:00 AM · #

I was brought to your website by a friend. I have to thank you from the bottom of my heart!! I just started homeschooling back in January 2009. My friend told me about you in March. I do not know how I even did it so far without you. You are a blessing to all homeschool families. Thank you so much!

— Kristy Perez · Apr 27, 02:37 AM · #

Hi Donna,



LOVE YOUR SITE! You have done a fabulous job! I have a question for you but do not see an email address on your site. How does one ask you a question? Also, do you have some place to purchase some of these things you offer? I feel you should be compendated in some way for all the work you have already done. Thanks for all your help. Please let me know where we can email you questions. Thanks again.

Debi

— Debi · May 26, 04:40 PM · #

Hi Debi, normally I can be reached from the feedback form at http://donnayoung.org/to/feedback.htm, but occasionally I close the form when I have no free time. It is currently closed now. I am up to my eyeballs in work.

— Donna Young · May 27, 02:58 PM · #

Hello! Do you have lesson plans for Apologia Physics? I’ve looked thru the site and see for Biology, Chemistry and PS, but no Physics. Have I missed it? Please advise! Thank you!

Yes, on the co-op page at
http://donnayoung.org/apologia/schedule.htm#phy2

— Hope · Oct 7, 03:19 PM · #

I’m looking for lab/experiment sheets for Apologia Physics 2nd ed. Any other printables to go with that would be great as well! Do you happen to have anything for that? Thank You!

— Rain · Feb 13, 09:06 PM · #

God granted answered prayer! I want to tell you, but you have probably heard this from others, you have been used by God to answer my prayers. I have felt that I had made a terrible mistake by homeschooling, although I knew in my heart, it was the right choice, life simply has become too complicated for me and my disabled husband for me to feel I am doing the best job for my children…3…ages 7, 12, and 15. I have tried and there have been major victories, especially with my special needs son, but I know they all want to go to college and we are behind currently in where I would like to see them in school. Your site is so organized, affordable..lol, and everything I need to get back on track. I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this with everyone with “no strings attached”. I have searched all over the internet and pieced stuff together through various books, pieces from the Web, etc…and given the kiddos the best I could offer, but we are extremely poor, and when things get out of order, I have truly wanted somewhere to go and just say “now what?”. You have offered the “now what” and I cannot thank you enough. You are awesome and I can only thank God that He led me to this site, in the name of Jesus…..God Bless You and your family….

Mamma Grace

— Mamma Grace · Mar 7, 04:45 PM · #

Mamma Grace, Thank you and may God Bless you and your family.

— Donna Young · Mar 9, 05:33 PM · #