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New at DY in 2009

DY's Grades and Attendance

The G&A XLS files at "48" and "Points" have an additional choice. 48 has a 14-subject file and Points has a 16-subject file. Above and below is a link to the G&A home page.

XLS 10

The XLS 10-Subject Grader has been on the site-cd for a while, and over the weekend I reviewed and altered the file and added it to donnayoung.org. XLS 10-Subject Grader is spreadsheet file that has the capacity for 10 subjects and calculates unweighted grade averages.

By Columns

Before today, there were only 12 planners from this set online and now there are thirty-something plus the columned ruled paper. Because there are so many files, I spread them out over several pages. The By Columns page is now the home page for this style.

Printing Readiness 2

This is a collection of drawings that you may print. Counting Mr. Stripes, there are 23 files in the set. A completion certificate is also included as well as a doc format of the printing readiness 1 certificate.

DY's Cursive Animations

I decided it was time to finish the online set of cursive animations. Over the last 2 1/2 days I finished the remaining 41 files and pages.

Art Section

A few days ago, I uploaded a lot of new pages to the art section. I have been meaning to announce each one, but I am too busy to do that. There is a list of some of the new pages on the Art Section Home Page.

Math

The Math section received additional pages today. The math menu is changed because of the extra pages. No one minds big changes do they. Some of the new pages were previously on YoungMinds only, the site-cd. The links to the new menu pages are:
Learning about Money for Math
Math Facts: Triangle Cards, Drill Sheets, etc.

The page linked below has completely new worksheets. They are unusually colorful.

Art: Drawing Ia, Line and Position, Younger Children

It has been a while since I added anything to art. Today I have added drawing blocks in the style of the Drawing Ia worksheets for younger children. I also added back to drawing Ia the old format of the first worksheets.

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.

Colonial Planner

The Colonial Planner has forms for household, homeschool, journals, and calendars.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In Homeschool Forms I have added the Papyrus Planner. Papyrus planner has both homeschooling and household forms. The planner uses the papyrus font.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.