I changed the look of donnayoung.org and added new content and this web site remodeling is an ongoing change.
A List of Some of the New Content
Art
Art will be restructured sometime this year, it is only 'skinned'
New in art:
Comic Strip Printables New comic strip printables
Homeschool Planner
Homeschool Planner is a large section that has both printables and help files. The entire section is about homeschool planning.
New in homeschool planner:
Homeschool Planner Guide Discusses planner types, several pages
Homeschooling High School Goes over steps, several pages
Planning for Beginners Rewritten, several pages
Sets, a new area for planners that have something in common such as the Portfolio Set and the Word files.
Household
New in Household
Household - Purse Sized Booklet A small booklet that is made from word files, no pdf's for this booklet. There are several pages going over how to make the booklet and how to customize the booklet.
Handwriting
Handwriting is completely restructured under the new menu.
New in handwriting:
George Washington's Rules of Civility Booklet: This is a copy work booklet. Although I placed the printables for the booklet in handwriting, the lesson from the booklet is more etiquette than handwriting. As noted on the page, "I recommend this copy work exercise for children who know how to write well enough to concentrate on what is being written."
Recipes Recipes for play dough and finger paint
Make Handwriting Lessons A page about how to use a certain cursive penmanship font to make handwriting lessons with microsoft word.
Blank Top Handwriting Paper An addendum to this page about making handwriting lessons with microsoft word using a certain manuscript font.
New in 2007
Art
Lesson Format of drawing sheets Drawing Ia. Please note that the lesson format is replacing the old drawing printables. The old drawing printables will be removed at the end of June 2007. All formats are on the web site CD, YoungMinds.
Calendars
School Calendars which have the starting months of Jan, June, July, August, and September. Months are listed across page instead of down.
Vertical Calendar: Each month is contained in one column Weekends and
non-days are highlighted in color. These have a typeable header. Use them
for your school calendar
or for an attendance calendar.
Handwriting
Blank Top handwriting paper in color
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I re-did the 133 Manuscript Handwriting
Sheets site to add Manuscript Letter Animations. As of today,
Sept. 8, 2007, I have 4 finished. I hope to add them at a rate of 2 - 4 a
week, depending on time here at home.
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I have added back some of my cursive letter animations. They are
linked from Cursive Handwriting
Practice.
Help
I have added a new How-to Plan page, this one features Easy Grammar: Planning Easy Grammar
History
New resources in History - Maps and Presidents. Two docs have been added: Declaration Of Independence, The Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address
Math
Correction: Fraction Manipulatives
Typo fixed in manipulatives. All of the printables were remade so that
they would still be mix-and match, however, the new ones will probably not
match the old ones.
100-Number Charts 9 new charts. Two charts per sheet. Each chart has a certain amount of random missing numbers.
Four new 100-problem addition & six new multiplication facts sheets are added: Math Drills - Basic
Planners
Column Planners
I removed these last year during my planner site makeover and
because of resource shortages, but I have brought some of them back
online.
New Checklist. The checklist is my children's most favorite form. The new checklist is also available as a spreadsheet
2007 Version of MS Excel Grades and Attendance and XLG&A Help Files
Directions for altering the Excel Grades and Attendance file so that grades can be reported quarterly.
Type-able PDF forms, seven of them, are scattered about in the Homeschool
Planners section. They are identified by the icon shown above. Read about
them in my blog
Added Back: The Saxon 7/6 grading form
Science
Co-op Schedule for Exploring Creation with Physical Science 2nd Edition by Michelle Goodrich
3 new lab sheets for Exploring Creation with Physical Science. They may or may not be an improvement over the old ones.
Exploring Creation with General Science - The new schedule is finished. The Bookmarks for the new schedule are finished too!
New word lab form for Exploring
Creation with General Science. In both rtf and doc format.
Exploring Creation with General Science: Added: A bit about Grading the Lab Book and Grade Weight.
Exploring Creation with General Science Worksheets and Study Aids: Scientists Notes: Student can take notes about each of the scientists, 7 pages. Includes a picture of all but two scientists and a space for notes.
Exploring Creation with General Science - Check lists of contents and lab supplies. Module One 3-week schedule revision suggestion.
A co-op schedule for Advanced Physics in Creation Schedule By Donna May
http://donnayoung.org/apologia/schedule.htm#adv-phy
A schedule for: Exploring Creation with Physical Science, ed. 2 Please read the About for this schedule.
I have updated my schedule for Exploring Creation with Physical Science, ed. 1 The bookmarks are updated as well. The main changes are: for one, the schedule is printer friendly, there is a word format file and of the actual schedule, additional drawing assignments are added.
Tweaked Coop Schedule for
Exploring Creation with General Science
by Leah Mitchell