New at DY in 2009
Trace and Write: Shapes
The newest addition to the penmanship section of DY is a small set called "Shapes". The set is available in two different handwriting styles. It is designed for children learning the shapes: circle, oval, square, triangle, and rectangle. A matching blank worksheet is also available that could be used for drawing and handwriting practice.
May 18, 2009 | Trace and Write: Shapes »
Colonial Planner
The Colonial Planner has forms for household, homeschool, journals, and calendars.
May 11, 2009 | Colonial Planner »
13-Month Calendar Generator
Designed for homeschoolers who school from mid-month to mid-month year-round. With the generator, you may type the header, choose the starting month and starting year.
Generator programmed by John Young.
May 6, 2009 | 13-Month Calendar Generator »
Cursive Handwriting Lessons
The cursive handwriting worksheets on this web page use a handwriting style that is similar to D'Nealian, however there are some Zaner-Bloser elements in some of the worksheets. There are 28 worksheets with 4 short lessons per worksheet. A writing animation accompanies a few of the lessons.
April 13, 2009 | Cursive D »
Connecting Cursive Capitals
Connecting Cursive Capitals is a series of cursive handwriting lessons that practice altered and non-altered cursive capital letters to connect the capital letter with a following lowercase letter. There are 3 worksheets (6 lessons ) so far. I will work on these and upload them over time. Update, 4/4/9: I've added 5 more files.
April 2, 2009 | Connecting Cursive Capitals »
Kindergarten Diploma
I spent a bit of time on a new kindergarten diploma. This one is a serious looking file and it's typeable. If you need a kindergarten diploma, read more about the file at the new certificate page.
April 2, 2009 | Certificates »
HSF Archives
July 2003, I opened a homeschool board at homeschoolforms.com. Despite the existence of multitudes of home-ed forums all across the internet, I started the board because it seemed like a good idea to provide the service. Unfortunately, the longer I had the board, the more time it required to maintain. Due to growing time restraints and not having enough time to work on donnayoung.org, I closed the board about 4 years later. Now, 2 years later, I am finally archiving the discussion threads at HSF Archives. Read more at About
April 2, 2009 | HSF Archives »
Alexia Planner
This is just another planner option. I remade the Alexia Planner files from images to preserve the font that I use for this planner. There are only nine files for this planner and I am not sure if I will make more. This won't be the last planner that I add this year, two more are on my list.
February 22, 2009 | Alexia Planner »
Perpetua Planner
In Household I have added the Perpetua Planner. Perpetua planner is a small household planner set that uses the perpetua font. The planner has PDF files for phone numbers, 18-month calendars, an undated block planner, and birthdays and anniversaries. I also added two new DOC files - a phone register file and a journal file.
February 18, 2009 | Perpetua Planner »
In Homeschool Forms I have added the Papyrus Planner. Papyrus planner has both homeschooling and household forms. The planner uses the papyrus font.
February 16, 2009 | Papyrus Planner »
Bug Movie
The bug movies are online again. The movies are short and made from compiled images. One shows bugs hatching from their eggs and the other movie shows the first instar stage. The movies will remain online until the last of April.
February 05, 2009 | Bug Movie »
Writing Strands
Two days ago I looked through my son's writing book and was moved to ramble a review. I wrote a short bit about the writing curriculum that we used during our first three years of homeschooling, Writing Strands.
January 22, 2009 | Writing Strands »
Handwriting Fonts
Several times a year, I am asked font related questions. Today, I decided to post information on six different handwriting fonts. The pages are located in the penmanship section of donnayoung.org and the starting page is linked below. The web pages offer basic information on the fonts and where to get the fonts.
January 15, 2009 | Handwriting Fonts »
Snowman Planner
The snowman planner has been around for a while, I made it many years ago and it resides on the Site-CD. The planner is only 3 files, 2 weeklies and 1 quarterly. It features a snowman instead of a check box. The planner is now available online in Homeschooler Planner > Sets
January 14, 2009 | Snowman Planner »
Nature Journal
Photographs of one of our half-sized nature journals. Some of the pages tell how to do certain aspects of the journal, such as specimen pages and organizing the pages. Some of the pages do not have anything informative and are there just for demonstration. Most of the files used to make this journal are available and linked if available.
January 3, 2009 | Nature Journal »
Monthly Calendar
Sometimes I listen. This type of calendar was requested. It is a monthly calendar, one month on one page and it is vertical (portrait). If you have the late '05 or newer site-cd, a version of this calendar exists in xls format on the page: [\cd-dyorg\calendars\blank\index.htm]
The calendar is in DOC and PDF formats.
January 1, 2009 | Monthly Calendars »
