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Animations, Images, and Diplomas

During the past two weeks, I have added to donnayoung.org: Three Manuscript Animations The letters o, n, and f were added and they are linked from two pages: Manuscript Animations […]

Clock Myspace Worksheet Renamed

While in the early stages of remodeling donnayoung.org, I set up a suggestion form on the home page. A school teacher sent in this comment. “I cannot access the Whose […]

Art: Drawing from Life

Drawing real objects is an important learning technique for budding artists. My daughter typically draws from her imagination and while that is okay, drawing imaginary subjects does not add to […]

Timed Writing

When my children were younger, I had them do something that I called timed writing. I’m not sure what I can say about it to recommend it except to say […]

Weightless Excel G&A

This Grades & Attendance file is not a weighty matter, it’s just straight up grades. The no-weight grades and attendance is not a new item, it has always been available […]

Easy Grammar

Easy Grammar series by Wanda Phillips uses the prepositional approach to evaluating sentences. I used Easy Grammar for my children’s grammar lessons during the early to middle years, and I […]

Natural Speller

This entry is in reference to Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout. If you have used Natural Speller and want to comment about the book, please do so below. My introductory […]

Parallelism in Writing

This is a small portion of the article, please go to my website to read the entire article at: Parallelism in Writing As a rule, two or more sentence-elements that […]

Redo – Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

2008 UPDATE: My web site resources for the DISTAR adaption method, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons have been redone since this blog article. The home page for […]

Cursive Letter Animations

I’m happy to be able to reintroduce cursive letter animations. Last year I removed all of the animations from my website due to shortages in resources, but now that I […]

Art Class – Doodle Week

I planned the first week to be a disciplined approach to doodling lines or that is what it appears to be. Actually, the whole purpose of this week’s exercise is […]

May-07 Donnayoung.org Updates

There is not a lot to report although I feel like I have been busy. Leah Mitchell redid (tweaked) her Exploring Creation with General Science co-op schedule. The schedule is […]

Caffeine Induced Additions

After mistakenly making a late pot of caffeinated coffee instead of decaf and drinking it anyway and then lying awake too long last night, it came to me that I […]

Lined Handwriting Font

Homeschooling moms who visit my handwriting printables often ask me if I know of a cursive font or a program that can be used to make handwriting practice sheets. The […]

2008 Half-Sized Dated Calendars

Today I spent a few hours working on the 2008 dated block planner calendars for the half-sized planner section. Since I have to make these files all over again each […]