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Daily To Do List – Daily Docket Printable

I’m a list girl – I’ll admit it. While I try to keep things in my brain and remember them, inevitably I forget them if they aren’t written down on a piece of paper somewhere.

Daily to do list free printable



And I also like pretty. And practical. I’ve had a list that I’ve used over the years, but when I created my yearly personal planner – well, I wanted it to match the colors of my new planner. (It’s the little things, people…) Keeping it all to myself seems unfair, because I happen to know a lot of people that like making lists as well and also enjoy cute.

There are days that I’m rather over-ambitious, so I have plenty of room on my list to add things throughout the day. I have also been known to put something on my list that wasn’t there to begin with and then crossing it off (ahem). Some days we just need to feel like we accomplished something and every little bit helps!

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The to do list is pretty basic, but hopefully it will work for you too. There is an area to make a list of things to accomplish, household goals, appointment, meals for the day, and even a space to record exercise (oh – I crack myself up!) and water intake.

Each page in the document is identical so you can print them off, cut the page in half, and have two lists. If you print them front to back, you’ll have four to-do lists and save a little paper. (Note: if you are having trouble downloading the file or printing it off, leave a comment or email me and I can send it to you).

I print mine off front/back so I can flip it over when I’m done and quickly transfer things from one list to another – because there are always things that don’t get done.  Just wanted to pass along something that is working for me!

Curious – are you a paper and pen girl (or guy)? Or do you have a favorite tool for keeping track of things you need to do?

If you’d like to use my older to-do list, feel free to grab that here.

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* clip art from lovelytocu via Etsy

August 2017 Personal Planning Pages – Free Printable

 

August means one thing primarily in our house – school time is starting at some point. While I thought I had an official date circled on our calendar, we may push it off a little bit depending on how much down time we have during the month. 

This past month we finished up our weekly swim meets and have one more HUGE meet with all the teams the last Saturday in July. After that, I may not know what to do with my days and evenings! We celebrated with friends as their youngest daughter was married (and raced through the pouring rain during the outside reception). VBS was also an added adventure – and one that was amazingly wonderful. 

This month: PLANNING. PRINTING. And more planning. Our co-op will be starting up again, Laurianna will begin a class (or two) at the community college, and we will ease back into the swing of a new school year. 

Here we go! Time to stay on top of things around the house!

If you’d like to get organized along with me, you can download the August 2017 Personal Planner Pages and try them out this month. I truly hope they are a help to you in the upcoming days.  

 

A Peek Inside My Planner

If you’d like to take a look at how I’ve set up my yearly planner, I’ve explained it more in this post here, as well as given links to my favorite binder and colorful tabs (because pretty makes life fun too, right?).

Yearly Planner example from Homeschool Creations-5

This year I’ve done a little something different and pulled my planner out of the binder and had it spiral bound at Staples. It has worked wonderfully and I love it this way!!

August 2017 Personal Planner Pages

You can download the August 2017 Personal Planner Pages by clicking the green download button below. There are 12 pages included as a part of the download: the month at a glance and then weekly planning pages as well, with a page that finishes up the month of July and another that goes a bit into September as well. Each month I’ll be offering a free download for that month’s planning pages, so you can check back and download them as they become available.

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Purchase the Yearly Planner

Otherwise, if you like the layout and want to start planning out the rest of your year now (and 2018 as well), purchase the full Yearly Planner for $4.99. The calendar includes month-at-a-glance pages and dated weekly pages through December 2018. There is also a link to bonus pages and additional covers for the planner. 

Don’t miss my student planner and weekly homeschool planner – available as well!

Don’t Miss The Daily To-Do List

Daily to do list free printable

 
My Daily To-Do List is pretty basic, but hopefully it will work for you too. There is an area to make a list of things to accomplish, household goals, appointment, meals for the day, and even a space to record exercise and water intake. Each page in the document is identical so you can print them off, cut the page in half, and have two lists. If you print them front to back, you’ll have four to-do lists and save a little paper.

Hope you all have a wonderful month!! I’d love to hear your plans!

 

June Personal Planning Pages – Free Printable

 

While I know it seems soon to share planning pages for June, the first of June is in just a little over a week. Can you believe it??

 

Phew! May seems to have flown by with several road trips to a wedding and the last Teach Them Diligently in Atlanta (which was a blast since Carisa and part of her family were able to hang out with my hubby, McKenna, and I for the weekend). I LOVE that her oldest son and McKenna get along SO well. Just makes my heart happy, especially since Carisa and I met through our blogs many years ago and have become such close friends. :) 

This June will be full for our family, but a good full. Summer swim league is starting up in less than a week and Rick and I have been getting everything ready for that. We also have a week-long service camp happening for our high school age kids, Scout camp, our local homeschool convention, and another round of doctor’s visits for Laurianna. 

Staying on top of things is a rather lovely thing, so my planner is being put to good use. 

If you’d like to get organized along with me, you can download the June 2017 Personal Planner Pages and try them out this month. I truly hope they are a help to you in the upcoming days.  

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A Peek Inside My Planner

If you’d like to take a look at how I’ve set up my yearly planner, I’ve explained it more in this post here, as well as given links to my favorite binder and colorful tabs (because pretty makes life fun too, right?).

Yearly Planner example from Homeschool Creations-5

This year I’ve done a little something different and pulled my planner out of the binder and had it spiral bound at Staples. It has worked wonderfully and I love it this way!!

June 2017 Personal Planner Pages

You can download the June 2017 Personal Planner Pages by clicking the green download button below. There are 12 pages included as a part of the download: the month at a glance and then weekly planning pages as well, with a page that finishes up the month of April and another that goes a bit into July as well. Each month I’ll be offering a free download for that month’s planning pages, so you can check back and download them as they become available.

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Purchase the Yearly Planner

 

Don’t forget the Yearly Personal Planner is included in the Homeschool Helps Bundle until Tuesday, May 30th.

Otherwise, if you like the layout and want to start planning out the rest of your year now (and 2018 as well), purchase the full Yearly Planner for $4.99. The calendar includes month-at-a-glance pages and dated weekly pages through December 2018. There is also a link to bonus pages and additional covers for the planner. 

Don’t miss my student planner and weekly homeschool planner – available as well!

Don’t Miss The Daily To-Do List

Daily to do list free printable

 
My Daily To-Do List is pretty basic, but hopefully it will work for you too. There is an area to make a list of things to accomplish, household goals, appointment, meals for the day, and even a space to record exercise and water intake. Each page in the document is identical so you can print them off, cut the page in half, and have two lists. If you print them front to back, you’ll have four to-do lists and save a little paper.

Hope you all have a wonderful month!! I’d love to hear your plans!

 

Goodnight Moon Sequencing Cards – Free Printable

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown was one of our favorite books when the kids were little. I do believe I can still quote the entire book by heart, I know it that well. 

We used the book as a part of our Before Five in a Row studies and years ago I created some go-along printables for the story. Recently though I found some new clip art that was just begging to be put into something *new*. Since we have nieces and nephews, there is always an excuse to create with them! I am going to update the other printables soon, but today I wanted to share a little something new to go along with the book: the Goodnight Moon sequencing cards

In the set, you’ll find both number sequencing and sentence strip sequencing. Your children can either work on number placement (up to 14) and number word identification or reading short sentence strips. 

The number cards can be separated into three pieces: picture card, number, and number word. A set of vocabulary cards is also included in the set if you would prefer to match pictures to word cards. 


Don’t forget to check out the fun activities we worked on in our Goodnight Moon unit (Kaleb looks so little in the pictures!!). 

If you’re ready to work on sequencing with your kids, feel free to download by clicking the green button below. 

Multiplication Worsheets

While our older children are able to use graph paper for their math problems, our youngest struggles with his penmanship size and also the graph paper doesn’t help him quite enough in keeping his numbers in the right column. Even though he may do his math correctly, when it’s time to add up the numbers – well, the columns don’t line up correctly and mistakes are made.

I tried adding lines to regular notebook paper, but that didn’t always do it either, so instead I put together a simple worksheet for him to use when he is working on multiplication facts (I’m working on a division one too, because that’s the next thing we need to straighten up a little). 

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With the multiplication worksheet pages, he is able to use the sheets over the course of a few days to work through problems (he can note the problem number next to his work), and be reminded of where the numbers go. This has helped TREMENDOUSLY in cutting back on mistakes and frustration for him.

One thing I wanted to do as well – keep the main lines black and columns grey so he can get a better visual of how to line things up. Above is a little peek at how the worksheets are set up. 

There are two sets included in the free muliplication worksheet printables: one with and one without zeros as place markers to remind children where to place numbers. Each sheet has at least twelve spaces to work on multiplication problems and there are different sheets based on how many digits are being multiplied: 2×2, 3×2, or 3×3. 

We’re printing them off double-sided and using them over the course of the week. It’s already helped so much! Feel free to download a set by clicking below – enjoy! 

 

Still need a little work on multiplication facts? Check out these FREE Skip Counting Charts

Argentina Geography Printables – Free Printable Download

 

Our recent geography study has taken us to South America and that involved some more updated printables for Kaleb. Argentina is our second stop in our “trip” to South America. The bottom of this post aslo includes additional helps for learning tools, lesson plans, and a book unit from other moms to help you out as well. 

The Argentina Geography Printables include the following worksheets:

  • an Argentina mapping sheet {map rivers, oceans, major cities, }
  • an Argentina factsheet to write down information about Argentina including current population, climate, type of government, and more
  • an Argentina flag coloring page 
  • an Argentina flag information sheet and notebooking page

 


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We’ve been using the below books to help us fill in the information blanks with our pages: 


 

 

 

More Geography Resources

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FREE Continent Fact Files

 

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Don’t miss these FREE geography printables listed by continent…

Click on one of the globes below to search for geography resources by continent. Each page has downloads for flag coloring and information pages, mapping pages, and links to blog post full of lesson plans and additional information.

Africa   Asia   Australia
Europe    North America    South America
 

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