Donna Young's Blog - DY Updates

Lesson Two Drawing from Graphics - Drawing with Children [4]

Donna Young — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:01:49 GMT

I have written a review, or overview, and a possible schedule for Lesson Two Drawing from Graphics from the book, Drawing With Children. At first I thought this chapter was going to be difficult to plan, but it's not - once a person really understands exactly what this chapter is about.

The chapter is about planning compositions with overlapping objects, observing the effects of coloring, texture and shading, and including the feeling/action of the subject in the drawing such as leaping lion and swaying grass.

I also added to the lessons page a couple of printables that are really not needed, but they are there if a person wants to use them for art class.

The Review/Overview
The Lesson

2010 Half-Sized Household Planner

Donna Young — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:31:54 GMT

The dated 2010 Half-Sized Household Planner refills are ready and uploaded. Donna's 1/2 sized household planner files are designed to be printed on both sides of regular sized printer paper, then cut in half. For notebooks that use 5.5" x 8.5" filler.

2010 Half-Sized Household Planner

Math Papers [2]

Donna Young — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:16:19 GMT

The Math menu is a little altered to make room for more content. I have added a new section called, "Paper." In paper you will find the:

Daily Planner [2]

Donna Young — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:15:20 GMT

In the Homeschool Planner section of donnayoung.org, under Lesson Planner, you will find a new page for daily lesson planners.

Currently the web page has two styles, a Lesson Plan Timer and a Daily Planner. The daily planner comes in 3 colors for color-coding purposes.

Pictured here is the Blue Daily Planner.

Both styles are available in DOC and PDF.

12-16 Grade Keeper with Lab WU [3]

Donna Young — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:05:49 GMT

One of my online friends, Michelle, who teaches a lab science co-op mentioned using my Grades & Attendance grader keeper for her class. That prompted me to make 12-16, a different kind of grade keeper.

12-16 is named after these two aspects of the grade keeper:

The front page of the file accepts up to 12 students, or if you are using this for one student: 12 subjects.

16 refers to how many grading sections each page has; there are 16 "Grade Blocks." This is ideal for books that have 16 chapters or a class that is divided into 16 parts.

Lab WU is a grader that has sample criteria for grading lab write-ups. It's included in 12-16 Lab WU. I made Lab WU in 2006, but never put it online. I let Michelle use it though. So now it is in 12-16. I'll work on getting a essay grader version up eventually. Lab WU is very flexible.

I wrote help pages for 12-16 and they start here:
12-16 Help

Help for Lab WU is a bit lean, its help page is here:
Lab WU

12-16 Lab WU needs to run in a spreadsheet program. I made it with Microsoft Excel 2002, so it should work with Excel. I have not tested it on any other software brand so far.

12-16 Lab WU may be downloaded from this page:
12-16 Lab WU

Handwriting and Filler Paper

Donna Young — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:19:34 GMT

To the Penmanship > Paper section of donnayoung.org I have added more printable filler paper. Most of it has a theme or is decorated in some way.
Links to new pages:
Under Handwriting Paper
History Themes Handwriting Paper - Papers decorated with images from history, a few presidents.
Whimsical Handwriting Paper Just one file, a treasure map.

Under Filler Paper
History Themes Filler Paper Most of the filler paper has blue lines. The papers on this page are decorated with images from history and a few US locations.
Literature Themes Filler Paper :: Tom Sawyer, Charlotte's Web, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit, Lion in a Wardrobe, Animal Farm
Animal Themes Filler Paper Decorated with dogs, cats, a mammoth
Miscellaneous Themes Filler Paper Papers that are in Miscellaneous are simply put there because I do not have enough of one more category to place them better.

The word Miscellaneous uses all 5 vowels.

Second Level under Paper
Horizontal Filler Paper If you ever wanted horizontal filler paper, I have it.

Booklets We used booklets. Booklets are useful, kids like them, they're small. This page is the home page for my booklet files and so far I have two measly pages that I will link next.
Folded Booklet Folded Booklets. Print them, stack them, staple them, fold them.
Outer Edges Booklet called thus because this booklet is inside out.

Is this all? I am looking around. I have done more work this week, but this is all I have uploaded.

Lessons in Alphabetizing, Dictionary Skills

Donna Young — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:21:51 GMT

While working on my older content, I revised three pages and added a fourth page in the area of teaching children Alphabetizing and Dictionary Skills. The new page, Lessons in Alphabetizing Words explains the simple process of teaching alphabetical order in words to the first, second, third and fourth letter. The lessons uses the cards that are on the revised page Sorting Cards. Sorting Cards has new files and a few old ones. Two other pages were revised and they are: ABC Order and Guide Words.

Game Cards [1]

Donna Young — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

From Game Cards you can print various sized blank cards and decorative card backs. Most are pdf files, but many are also in doc format.

Game Boards

Donna Young — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:51:44 GMT

Game board templates can be printed from Game Boards. Most are pdf files, one is also a doc file and 3 of the game boards includes the original images.

Bingo Games

Donna Young — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:43:52 GMT

Today I added my bingo game and prepositional bingo game that was previously only on the site-cd. I also added a new preposition bingo game as well as three other bingo games. The new games are generated games and how they are made is briefly explained on the Generated Bingo page.

The links to the new pages:
Bingo
Preposition Bingo
Generated Bingo