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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 15, 2024 · Last modified March 30, 2024
Are you looking for a free printable 2024-2025 Calendar that includes holidays, seasons, day light savings, etc.? Be sure to grab our free printable 2024-2025 calendar! Today I wanted to share our (latest) free calendar printable for the 2024-2025 school year. This free calendar printable covers about 18 months (April 2024 through August 2025). I like having a calendar that includes the holidays, the change in seasons, and things like...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 11, 2022 · Last modified July 7, 2023
FREE Printable Homeschool Planner! UPDATE: The link below now gives you access to the FREE Fall 2023 Homeschool Planner. Here is our new printable Homeschool Planner for the spring semester 2023! This planner is free to download! NOTE The link below now gives you access to the FREE Fall 2023 Homeschool Planner. As many of you know, I have been creating my own planner for years. Sometimes I have used...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Freebies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 30, 2022 · Last modified December 11, 2022
FREE Printable Homeschool Planner! Today I have shared a new printable Homeschool Planner for the fall semester 2022. This planner is free to download! As many of you know, I have been creating my own planner for years. Sometimes I have used full-sized pages, sometimes I prefer a smaller booklet-style (1/2 page planner). Last year, I started using a planner with full-size pages once again. This particular version has calendar...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 1, 2022 · Last modified August 10, 2023
Are you looking for a free printable 2022-2023 Calendar that includes holidays, seasons, day light savings, etc.? Be sure to grab our free printable 2022-2023 calendar! Today I wanted to share our (latest) free calendar printable for the 2022-2023 school year. This free calendar printable covers 20 months (January 2022 through August 2023). I like having a calendar that includes the holidays, the change in seasons, and things like day...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 29, 2020 · Last modified January 16, 2022
Are you looking for a free printable 2021-2022 Calendar that includes holidays, seasons, day light savings, etc.? Be sure to grab our free printable 2021-2022 calendar! Today I wanted to share our (latest) free calendar printable for 2021-2022. This free calendar printable covers 20 months (January 2021 through August 2022). Updated Calendar Available! The newest version is now available! The 2022-2023 School Year Calendar goes from Jan. 2022 through August...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Free Homeschool Planner / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation / Homeschool: Useful Resources (websites books etc)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 2, 2019 · Last modified January 16, 2022
Grab this free printable 2020-2021 calendar! Updated Calendar Available! The newest version is now available. The 2022-2023 School Year Calendar goes from Jan. 2022 through August 2023. Click here to go to that page for the updated 2022-2023 School Year Calendar. Yes, it is still free! UPDATE: You might want to go to this post instead because it has the FREE printable Calendar for January 2021 through August 2022. Today...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Freebies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 22, 2018 · Last modified December 8, 2019
Today I wanted to share our (latest) free calendar printable, 2019-2020. This free calendar printable covers 20 months (January 2019 through August 2020). It starts in January 2019 and includes the 2019-2020 school year through August 2020. Note: The FREE January 2020 to August 2021 Calendar is now available!! I like having a calendar that includes the holidays, the change in seasons, and things like day light saving which is...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Freebies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 4, 2018 · Last modified January 1, 2019
Today I wanted to share our (latest) free calendar printable. This free calendar printable covers 18 months (March 2018 through August 2019). It includes the spring and summer months (2018) and then includes the 2018-2019 school year through August of 2019. I like having a calendar that includes the holidays and things like Day Light Saving which is why I’ve been making my own printable and update it from time-to-time!!...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Freebies / Homeschool: Organizing and Cleaning / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 18, 2017 · Last modified August 19, 2017
Hi everyone! As the school year begins again for many of us, we’re all trying to keep ourselves organized. I use google (online) calendar for many of our activities, but I still keep a traditional paper calendar as well in my homeschool planner. I wanted to share the updated printable calendar with you all. This is FREE to download and print out, just click to link or picture below! This...
If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that I’ve been making our monthly calendar for years. I needed some summer calendar pages and just put these pages together for June, July, August and September. At some point I’ll update the calendar to include the 2017-2018 school year, but wanted to share these for anyone else who might be able to use them in the meantime. These...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Organizing and Cleaning
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 25, 2016 · Last modified July 15, 2016
In last week’s post, I mentioned an online-planner that many homeschool families use. I still need to be able to see everything at a glance and to be able to check things over the course of the day, so I like having everything gathered in a 3-ring notebook. Last year I got a notebook that has a built in file dividers where I can place invitations and keep important papers...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Random Thoughts / Language Arts: Writing
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 15, 2016 · Last modified May 16, 2016
Hi Everyone, This is going to be a bit of a random post so bear with me! I’m going to talk about 3 separate things in this post. 1) Our free calendar printable and homeschool planning pages 2) A free end of year questionnaire for students and parents and 3) a random chat about our Homeschool Writing Workshop. Free Calendar, Homeschool Planning Pages and Homeschool Supply List: First, as many...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Homeschool: Organizing and Cleaning / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 10, 2016 · Last modified February 8, 2016
As many of you know, I use a notebook and calendar to keep our homeschool and family life organized. I make my own printable calendar pages and print them out about 6 months or so ahead. I needed to add in new pages to update my calendar/planning notebook for later in the summer and early fall 2016. I wanted to share that with you today if you can use it....
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 31, 2015 · Last modified July 29, 2015
As many of you know, each semester I make a new calendar. I keep one calendar right by my computer for keeping track of blog-related work; I use another for menu planning. I like making my own so that I can add in the holiday, family birthdays, and some fun clip art. Here is this semester’s calendar if you can use it. It is free to download: Free Fall...
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A list of the books we've used most in history, science, math, language arts, etc.
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The Human Body Systems, Skeletal, Digestive, Circulatory, Muscular, Nervous, Endocrine Systems and More (with lots of hands-on activity ideas)! We usually study a different body system each year.
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This is a free checklist I put together of the various science units I hope to cover in the elementary and middle school years.
Do your kids know the 4 largest countries? Which countries have the most people? The longest river? This packet covers basic world and U.S. facts and also covers geographic features and land forms.
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Dozens of posts about how to create a homeschool writing workshop.
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This is one of the best values we have... more than 20 PDFs with games, activities and worksheets to learn/practice the multiplication facts ($7.00).
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This is a fun, hands-on unit for early elementary students!
How the body is organized from cells to tissues... organs to body systems
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