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organization

Trello & High School Planning

I recently had the satisfaction of beginning something that for almost the last decade has been at the back of my mind as both something to anticipate and something to fear. Planning for high school. Yes, high school! Although I’ve watched many homeschoolers complete their high school careers and talked with many mothers who’ve gone …
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TRISMS & Trello

After struggling on several different occasions to figure out a way to sort of “schedule” TRISMS for my middle schooler, it finally hit me: Use Trello!!! If you’re not sure what Trello is, please, please, PLEASE check it out! It’s a highly customizable organizational tool that you can use for virtually anything you can come …
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My Home Management Binder Project #1

I am a paper packrat! It’s kind of hard not to be when you homeschool. There are papers to be copied, papers to be completed, papers to be corrected, papers to be corralled… Papers, papers, everywhere! While researching something school-related, I stumbled across the site for Mom’s Tool Belt. After reading through her blog, I …
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Letting the Kids Take Over

Well, we are on our six-week break one-week break following our second six-week period of school. (Twelve weeks down!!! Yay!!!) I think we were all ready for this one! Overall, I think it was a productive period. I didn’t get a lot of resistance about school, except in the IEW that I started with H. And that …
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Wordless Wednesday – August 7, 2013

Kid’s Shelves – K (blue shelf), H (pink shelf), J (learning toys) Reorganized shelves Projects from co-op (coral, keepsake box, Native American headdress, Native American dart, flower from my toddler) Supply boxes, magazine holders for workbooks and teacher’s guides, school store items, newspapers for arts and crafts

Planning Methods, Part II

If you missed the first part of my planning system, here’s the link. Once I get my lesson plans written onto my six-week planner sheets, I put them into our V Planner, which is an elaborate Excel spreadsheet. We will be using V Planner V3 this year. It’s different from the one we used last …
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