May 2013 - Household Planners > Half-Sized
Requested - Basic Check Register for the 1/2-sized planner, sometimes called personal sized, and the requester called it junior sized. There are two files - One prints a pair of vertical registers and a second file prints a horizontal register.
May 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner
An article describing how to use the worksheet GS-QP in V Planner V3. GS-QP refers to Grade Scale and Quality Points and it is the sheet where the grade scales are made.
April 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner
Unlock A Cell
Sometimes I forget to unlock the cells into which I have placed dropdown lists. My most recent embarrassment is in V3 where I didn't unlock any of the Master/Override list cells. 4/28/2013
April 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner
Make Rows Taller
How to make the rows taller so that all of the contents are displayed. Example shows lesson planner "Block1."
4/28/2013
April 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner
What does Beta Mean regarding the V Planners?
Beta means "don't use this planner, play with it; learn how it works"
4/28/2013
April 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner
How to Know!
This short video goes over how to tell which V Planner that you are using.
4/28/2013
April 2013 - Math > Paper

To the original graph paper page I have added 10 more sizes. These papers have gray graph lines with black dividing lines. The graph is divided every 3, 5, or 10 squares. Two sizes are made with both regular and wide margins. One special file is designed for a small garden.
April 2013 - English > Spelling

Two files - the Spelling Bee Winner and the Spelling Bee Champion. The Champion file is the year-end award for the child who won the most spelling bees. The Winner file has four certificates per page that you would sign, date, and hand to the winner of each spelling bee.
April 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner

Applies to V Planner V3.
A new feature in V3 that allows you to either set a system (Date or Number) per planner or set a system (Date or Number) per subject.
March 2013 - Homeschool Planner

Requested - The diploma pictured here, but without the border. It is a typeable PDF.
March 2013 - Handwriting > Paper

New Yellow Stripe handwriting rule papers in 5 rule heights and in horizontal format.
March 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner

Applies to all planner with a bump column [March - 2013]
March 2013 - Penmanship > Paper

The printable filler paper on this page feature a rule height of approximately 9mm. The rule is blue with pink margin lines and the outside margin line is olive. All but one file feature a small image at the top of the page. Each paper has a header that reads: by: and date:
March 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner

This video explains how the 3 columns of lesson plans are handled in the planners. Please watch this video before adding lesson plans to the S-Sheets. [March - 2013]
March 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner

How to use the Char Planner - a planner in which,
if your computer uses a character map, line breaks may be added after each lesson plan. [March - 2013]
March 2013 - Homeschool Planners > V Planner
High School V Planner- How to set up a special s-sheet for the 2nd semester [March - 2013]
December 2012 - Art > Crafts

Word templates that may be used to create paper cubes with pictures. Each template makes a certain sized cube, there are 7 sizes. Use the cubes for education or to make photo cubes.
How to Pages: Working with the Pictures
Pre-folding and How to Cut the Cube
Folding the Cube
December 2012 - Art > Crafts

There are 3 new pre-made gift tag sheets, two are suitable for Christmas. The blank tag template has been redone to make it better. That's a pitiful description.
December 2012 - Household > Recipes

The Spicy Popcorn page will be new to most of you. Today I updated the instructions to reflect exactly how I make the popcorn; I've been making it for years, and I added a 4x6 recipe card in the Microsoft Word formats of - DOC and DOCX.
November 2012 - Calendars > Monthly

Calendar shown here is an example of using the calendars. This is an undated "dated"
blank monthly calendar. The blocks that should contain dates are bordered and the month and year is noted on the bottom of each page.
November 2012 - Household > Recipes

Fantasy Fudge from the Kraft Marshmallow label - Our family's been making this particular fudge for decades. The recipe is online and I added recipe cards, a pdf of 4 small cards and the typical 4x6 recipe card size in doc and docx.
November 2012 - Calendars > Monthly

13 Meals is a method of meal planning for a month that I started doing a long time ago. I based this method on the repeating meal. This method is best when a shopping list is also made as this typically saves money at the grocery store.
November 2012 - Calendars > Monthly
The Category Method of Meal Planning - There are several ways to plan meals and ways to
not plan meals. This page explains Meal Categories, which basically, is a record of meals. If you like keeping records, then this record of meals is something that you can refer to during those large parts of your life when you do not plan meals, you just make them.
November 2012 - Calendars > Monthly

A menu planner in two colors - black and white, and blue and white. This planner allows you to keep a running record of meals and it has the typical menu planner files to go with it. Part of this menu planner is based on my category method of making meal plans.
November 2012 - Calendars > Monthly

Of course calendars continue to occupy work and I can't seem to resist making new calendar styles. This new style is a one-page monthly calendar that has ruled lines, most of which are dated.
November 2012 - Household > Full Sized > Month-on-a-Page

I came across a file that I had forgotten about. It is a "Month on a Page" type of calendar. This one is called List Top and I have a non-dated version of it at Calendars > Blank Calendars. Anyway, I made a whole lot of dated "List Top" calendars.
November 2012 - Calendars > Blank

Requested: Blank Calendar in the Blue Calendar style and the Frame Calendar style. These files are placed on the Blank Calendar page at Calendars > Blank
November 2012 - Calendars > Horizontal Monthly

The only dated "wall" calendar that I have was expiring this year (and I just removed it from the page) and I made another wall calendar to take it's place. It's made in the same style as the Colonial Set.
November 2012 - Homeschool Planner > Administrative > Attendance

Attendance H - an attendance calendar that can be used for several children. I made 3 versions of this new attendance calendar - one for 2 children (1 page), one for 4 children (2 pages), and one for 7 children (3 pages). I am calling it Attendance H because it prints horizontally.
November 2012 - English > Grammar

While working on the page, Prepositional Phrases, I added files for the Thanksgiving song by Lydia Maria Child: Over the River and Through the Wood. The pdf version has a ruled right side for anything that you deem useful.
November 2012 - Calendars > 12+ Months

3-Year Calendar - Someone requested a 3-year per page calendar a few days ago and so I made the calendars and now they are online.
November 2012 - Homeschooling > Games

Someone asked for a certain list of prepositions today and that led me down a bunny trail that ended with making preposition lists and a short, maybe very short, preposition bingo game that uses the prepositions from Easy Grammar grades 3 and 4. All files, game and lists, are found at this link.
August 2012 - Homeschool Planner > Administrative > Attendance

I was recently updating the files for the 2-page dated attendance form when I realized that I needed to make one more for August - one that included January in both the 1st and 2nd semesters. Our homeschool year typically started in August and the 2nd semester started in January. Once in a while the 1st semester used part of January. So now we have a 2-page attendance calendar with two Januaries.