It works for me!

Looking for ways to handle my home school more efficiently, I researched and created a homeschool notebook!  I found myself constantly frustrated chasing papers and keeping track of booklists and planning sheets for assignments.  This notebook helps me to have everything right at my fingertips.  

Here are my notebook tabs:  Calendar, Assignments, Schedules, Rubrics, Report Forms, Writing forms, Booklists, Reading Logs, Memorization and Boredom Busters

I love having planning sheets for those students who are always thirsty for more!  Look out, Daniel!  Here comes the teacher!   These types of forms are not hard to find. Many people online have already created Excel spread sheets and are kind enough to share them with those like me who are illiterate in computerese.

Free rubricmakers are also abundant online.  Not only do they convey grading criteria to the student before the assignment is given, but then can be used to evaluate the project afterwards.  Because they are computer generated, it's easy to insert the concepts and criteria you are teaching at any given time, making a very individualized grading tool.

Wish I would have come across this idea sooner!  This method of organization really works for me!

I can sit (finally) !

Sweet Jonathan is nine months old and such a little cutie!    

He continually reminds us of Steven at this age.  Yet, by necessity, Jonathan is very laid back and easy going.

We love him, we love him, WE LOVE HIM!