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The Ultimate Planning System? Yes, Please!

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Every once in awhile, something comes along that just rocks my world. The Ultimate Homeschool Planners are exactly the kind of things that rock my world.  They make me smile…A LOT!

About the Vendor

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Apologia is a family-owned corporation whose mission is to help homeschooling families learn, live, and defend the Christian faith. Apologia Educational Ministries publishes books, resources, and curricula written by a variety of authors. They offer creation-based science curriculum for grades K-12, worldview curriculum for ages six to fourteen, and practical and inspirational books about homeschooling and other topics of interest to homeschooling families.
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About the Products

The Ultimate Daily Planner for Students

The Ultimate Daily Planner for Students

A great gift to start younger students on the road to academic independence! Students meet with Mom weekly to record their daily assignments and mark their progress. Helpful tips, extensive study aids and engaging trivia give this planner true kid appeal.  $19.00

 

The Ultimate Weekly Planner for Teens

The Ultimate Weekly Planner for Teens

Deb Bell’s is the perfect planner for homeschool teen which allows you to customize the days, weeks, and months to your year and frame it within God’s working in your family. $19.00

 

 

The Ultimate Homeschool Planner

The Ultimate Homeschool Planner

Deb Bell’s insights which crafted the homeschool classic, The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling, have now applied to helping moms plan. Count your blessings while charting your family’s progress with this 48-week planner designed to help you document God’s faithfulness and activity during your homeschool journey. Features include: Unique Lord’s Day planning grid, Flexibility to help you prioritize and plan for up to six children, Customized daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly planning forms, Forms for setting goals, journaling activities, and tracking reading lists, Year-end review pages, Sturdy construction with convenient pockets and coated covers.   Now available in two different cover styles to coordinate with the colors of your life.   $28.00

Brenda Says:

I simply adore these planners.  We have been using a printout form of my lesson plans from a software we use to keep track of all of our homeschool things.  But I’ve been printing about 3-4 sheets every single week.  Though it is great because my son can work independently now, we are just using so much paper and toner this year.  We had tried another popular planner, but he just wasn’t a big fan of it.  These planners, he actually likes quite well and we plan to use the student one this next school year and the teen planner the following year.  He likes the information in the back of the student planner and loves the format of the teen planner.  The SAT vocabulary words in the teen planner are a bonus that makes us both smile.

Now, on to the Mom planner.  This is the planner that seriously rocks my world.  I am a bit of a planner junkie and have tried just about everything out there.  I have been disappointed in just about everything as nothing has done everything I have wanted it to do.  I have even tried creating my own planners and still wasn’t happy.  What can I say?  I just want MORE because my life doesn’t fit in a neat little box, no matter how much I would like it to.  THIS planner however, it is just about perfect.  It is almost like Debra Bell read my mind.  Seriously.

We only have two more years to homeschool here in our home.  But I seriously am considering making sure I continue to purchase this planner for ME.  Why???  Well, it is because I am using my planner as more of a LIFE planner.  Sure, I can keep track of our homeschool stuff now.  But I really am using it to track my blog, my businesses, my church responsibilities, my community responsibilities, and my home.  My friend Heidi posted about this as well and since she has much nicer handwriting than I do, I am going to refer you to her post to see what we are both doing.  Seriously, this planner rocks.

I do have just a couple of small items I wish were different.  I mean, these are definitely LIVEABLE.  But it would be so much nicer if the monthly planning pages were placed all throughout the planner.  I’d like the weekly pages after the monthly one.  And then divider tabs would be nice.  But other than that, really, you need to check this planner out.  You’ll be glad you did and you can thank me later.

 

 

 

 

Your vs. You’re

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Welcome to another edition of the Teacher’s Desk!  Today we are going to talk about Your and You’re.  I see these two misused quite often around the web.  It really shouldn’t be that difficult to get these two correct.  One is the possessive form of YOU.  The other is a contraction for YOU ARE.  Anyway, here is how you can explain the difference to your students so they can keep them straight.

Your vs. You’re

your – Possessive form of you (typically used before a noun).

Incorrect: You’re piano playing skills have improved!
Correct: Your piano playing skills have improved!

you’re – Contraction of you are.

Incorrect: Your now a piano music master!
Correct: You’re now a piano music master!

Are these words that have been used incorrectly in your homeschool?  What are some others you are hoping I will cover?  Leave me a comment and let me know what words are driving you batty!  Be sure to visit me next week for another set of commonly misused words.

From the Teacher’s Desk-Its vs. It’s

Teacher behind the desk

Welcome to another edition of the Teacher’s Desk!  I realized in the revamping of my blog, that I kind of dropped this feature.  I plan to remedy that right now and make this a weekly feature once again.  Today we are going to discuss  the words Its and It’s.  These seem to be ones that many students mix up and use incorrectly.  Quite frankly, it makes me crazy.  So here is how you can explain the difference so you your students don’t mix them up.

Its vs. It’s

its – Associated with a thing previously mentioned or in reference to an animal without prior knowledge of the animal’s gender.

Incorrect: That ostrich will never be a ballet dancer; it’s posture is horrendous.
Correct: That ostrich will never be a ballet dancer; its posture is horrendous.

it’s – Contraction of it is or it has.

Incorrect: Bob bikes to work. Its his favorite part of the day.
Correct: Bob bikes to work. It’s his favorite part of the day.

Are these words that have been used incorrectly in your homeschool?  What are some others you are hoping I will cover?  Leave me a comment and let me know what words are driving you batty!  Be sure to visit me next week for another set of commonly misused words.

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