1-year membership to Super Teacher Worksheets: A TOS Crew Review

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1-year membership with Unlimited downloads/access from Super Teacher Worksheets

Founded in 2007, Super Teacher Worksheets offers an online 1-year membership with Unlimited downloads/access to over 16,000 downloadable and printable resources.  It's designed primarily for grades K-5, with more and more resources being added all the time, and it's one of my favorite homeschool resources!

You will want to stock up on printer ink, because they have something for everyone!  Their worksheets are organized conveniently by subject, making it easy to find what you want.

• Math - topics from addition to geometry
• Reading Comprehension - organized by grade levels 1st grade through Middle School
• Reading & Writing - a variety of worksheets to improve reading skills and engaging writing exercises and prompts
• Phonics - sounds, blends, word families, and more
• Early Literacy - alphabets, sentences and sight words
• Grammar - parts of speech, punctuation, syllables
• Spelling - spelling lists for grades 1-5 and holiday themed lists
• Chapter Books - literacy units for dozens of popular children's books
• Science - worksheets for all science subjects
• Social Studies - US States, maps, history timelines and much more
• Holidays - seasons and holiday themes
• Puzzles & Brain Teasers - cootie catchers, puzzles, sodoku, hidden pictures, and much more
• PreK and Kindergarten - alphabets, numbers, shapes
• Teacher Helps- awards, certificates, planners, templates and more

These make great additions & supplements to any curriculum, and have saved me hours of searching to find that perfect worksheet.  

In addition to traditional worksheets, they offer a variety of unique printable games, scavenger hunts, cootie catchers, dioramas, puppets, task cards, mini-books and much more.  I love all the choices!

The team at Super Teacher Worksheets, in-house writers, artists and web-developers, work to create resources to help students  "use higher-order thinking skills, promote creativity, and make learning fun!"

In addition to math and language arts, we really appreciated the variety of science, social studies, and even art worksheets they have to choose from.

My testers enjoyed the mystery pictures. They plotted coordinates and connected the lines to create the picture.  She could see right away where she missed...

They have great quizzes that you can use for review.  All the printables come with full answer keys for you too!  My testers told me... "these are the best worksheets we've ever done..."

The Worksheet Generator allows you to create your own custom word searches, crosswords, word scrambles, and math worksheets. We love the bingo cards I made with our vocabulary words, it's a fun way to review, and it's so easy to do!

The handy My File Cabinet feature allows you to save worksheets into your personal collection, so they are super easy to find and print again.

I highly recommend this affordable homeschool resource, be sure to check it out!

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Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year from The Old Schoolhouse®: A TOS Crew Review

Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year from The Old Schoolhouse®

 Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year from The Old Schoolhouse®, written by Gena Suarez is one of my must have homeschool power tools!

Summer is a wonderful time to relax, unwind from the school year, and start to plan. The Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year  is part planner, part journal, and part personal encouragement for this journey. 

Gena is a homeschool veteran who talks directly to your mama's heart.  Each month begins with a devotional from her heart to yours.  Topics like joy, provision, perseverance and hope give you a burst of encouragement to begin the month.  Gena's practical advice is like having a mentor along with you,  field tips, squabbling kids, and naysayers, her tips are just what you need!

The planner is designed to get you organized, with monthly 2 page spreads. I love planners that begin in July!  This keeps my school year all in one place.

In addition, the weekly section is left blank, so you can customize.  I appreciate this.  I use this specifically to be my Co-op planner.  Instead of using the titles for "child", I use them for "class".  This works perfectly for me to see all of the classes I teach in one place.  

One of my favorite features of this planner, is the ability to use it like a journal as well. It has room for up to 5 children.  I just realized, with 3 graduated, I fit into this planner!  Sections are included so you can record specific things for each child.  A blank lined page you can journal on,  detailed curriculum planning section, attendance record, books read log, yearly goals, and semester goals.

I use my summer months to pray for these goals for each of my children.  We discuss them together and I love to be able to look back.

All of this AND this planner is beautiful!  The cover is a lovely floral design.  The pages are heavy quality paper.  It is sturdy enough to stand up to an entire year of use.  

You will want one of these, but you better hurry!  They are already 98% sold out!

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Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017 from The Old Schoolhouse : A TOS Crew Review

Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017 from  The Old Schoolhouse


Hurray! A planner that is designed especially for homeschool moms!  The Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017 from The Old Schoolhouse is a 192 page, spiral bound planner - full of special goodies just for us!

It features one page, full-year calendars for 2016, 2017, 2018 at the beginning.  What a great way to see a big-picture view.

Then, monthly calendars follow for the year.  I love that this planner features July 2016 - June 2017 - the same as our school year! Each Month has a 2 page spread and a page for notes.  My favorite part is the encouraging "Hey, Mama" notes on each month.  They are reminders written with the homeschool mama in mind, they feel like a gentle hug from a trusted friend.

Following the monthly calendars, the "meat" of this planner is the customizable "Week of...." pages.  This gives you space to personalize the planner to meet your own needs.  With 7 rows and 5 columns - you decide how to use it.  A row or column for each child?  For each subject?  The sky's the limit!

I like to use these pages to specifically plan my Co-op classes  listing each subject and the date in the rows/columns and using it to add in my resources, details and supplies I might need.  I like being able to see my entire week planned out for the classes I am teaching.

Scattered throughout this edition are snapshots of "tools" from early America.  From Cast Iron skillets to Dibblers...you will discover something new and interesting.

One of the most invaluable components of this planner is the Goal planning pages.  5 pages each (1 per kid...make copies if you need to :-) of Monthly, Semester and Yearly Goal pages.  The pages have room to record goals on a variety of  topics - Educational, Spiritual, Physical, Personal Talents, Life Skills, Financial and Relational.  I like to start out the year with at least an idea of what I want to see in each of my children in these areas.  The planner lets you keep it all in one convenient spot as well!

Other forms are included as well - Attendance Charts, Books Read This Year & Curriculum Planning (LOVE) enough for up to 5 children to each have their very own page.

A handy Homeschooling Contact List helps keep all those important numbers in one spot.  Your hubby will thank you for this info being there, should he need it! (especially if he finds himself subbing at Co-op - trust me!)

Additional treats for the homeschool mom are included too:

• Writing Prompts 
• Story Starters 
• The Thirteen Colonies 
• Timeline of Inventions 
• US Presidents & Wives (super handy for an election year...) 
• Branches of Government 
• US States & Capitals 
• Creating an Academic Transcript 
• Checklist and Skills Learned record forms 
• Other Courses 

This is a beautiful, and functional calendar.  It offers plenty of space to customize it to you and your family.  You won't be disappointed!

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The Ultimate Homeschool Planner from Apologia Educational Ministries : A TOS Crew Review

The Ultimate Homeschool Planner    from Apologia Educational Ministries 


Let me start with a "before" and "after" picture of my planning process...  As you can see, I could not wait for the The Ultimate Homeschool Planner    from Apologia Educational Ministries to arrive!  

This planner is designed by Debra Bell - one of my go-to, homeschool experts!  She's been down our path, and survived to tell about it, as well as encourage us who are still plodding on.  

This planner is not only beautiful, and sturdy (laminated cover with pockets too) - but, it's functional as well.  I have such a "non-standard" life that the average "standard" style planner never, ever works for me.  This Planner is just the opposite - it seems like it was designed especially for me and my crazy schedule!

Here's a some of the planning features included:

• Six years of calendars for long-term planning 
• One-Year Planning Grid for the year ahead
• Student Goal Setter pages to identify academic and character goals for each child 
• Family Priorities page to help you keep life in perspective 
• Resource List pages to track resources for up to six children 
• Two-page planning grid for each month 
• Special Notes for scheduling exceptions that break your routine 
• Wide margins to record prayers and answers to prayers Scriptures for meditating on God’s faithfulness 
• Exclusive Lord’s Day feature for making God’s Word a central part of your plan 
• Maximum flexibility to organize for up to six children by day or subject 
• Memorable Moments and Evidences of Grace pages for recounting God’s activity in your life and home school 
• Pages to record grades for up to six children and six subjects 
• Reading List pages for up to six children 
• Field Trip and Outside Activities log
• Year-End Review pages for reflection and next year’s planning

Debra Bell starts with a "user guide" that will encourage you that planning is an essential element in your day.  She recommends a "painless" 5 step process, and gives details (with pictures!) on how to implement a new plan that works for you:

• A yearly planning retreat
• Monthly planning sessions
• Weekly planning breaks
• Monday morning tutorials
• Friday afternoon weekly reviews

She caught my attention right away with "Prioritize for Sanity" - this was pure gold for me.  We have been very busy... ballet, soccer, violin, piano, basketball, serving, church, Coop, small groups....on and on and on.  But, I hadn't taken the time to prioritize any of it, and sanity was far from a word used to describe my world!

I think that my favorite feature of this planner is that I am the one that gets to customize it.  Blank monthly and weekly planner pages allow me to fill them in the way that I need to.  I don't have any guilt not following the pre-printed pages. 

The 2 page Monthly pages are first, followed by the Weekly planner pages:

This is the perfect layout for me. The weekly planning pages begin with an inspirational quote, Bible plan, Battle Plan - with "fighter verse", Prayers, Hospitality/Outreach - I can start each week focused on what is truly the most important thing... God's plans for me and my family!

The Weekly planner two-page spread has space for 6 people's weekly schedules.  Or, since it's blank - you can customize it to meet your needs.

 Since there are 10 of us to plan for in my family, I decided that organizing by activity type was better for us than person by person, so that's how I filled this section in.

I used the 6 rows with a row for boys activities, one for girls activities, another for church activities, coop activities, a row for medical/dental/etc appointments and of course - a row just for mom/dad activities.

The 6 columns gave me a column for every day of the week, except the Lord's Day - another gentle reminder to put God first!   The ample margin space for notes, supplies and appointments became my grocery and to do list area.

A blank page to record the week's memorable moments, achievements, and evidences of Grace gives me the opportunities to look back with gratitude on our week.  How many times I have said..."I should write that down so we remember"  This is the perfect spot to capture all those funny things your family says at dinnertime :-)

What a blessing to have a planner that reminds me of what is truly important.

My "Orange" planner (and the "Blue" one) have 48 weekly planning sections.  The "Yellow" design has 52 weeks.

 Sections for recording grades & scores for up to 6 students are included as well.  I didn't dive into this, but it's a great place to keep track of those ACT, SAT scores for your high schoolers.

Speaking of high schoolers, or those who are soon to be in high school - you will love the " High School Planning Grid with a sample plan" pages.  You can easily create a plan for your 8th-12th graders to cover the basic subjects as well as electives, tests and summer activities.  And, it'll all be in ONE place!

Six blank Reading lists and Field Trip logs offer a place to record those important activities.  For those larger than average families, you could use each as a semester, group list.  At least that's how I plan to do it.

The teaching tips in the back are worth the price of this affordable planner alone!

• Checklists for Raising an Independent Learner
• Motivating the Reluctant Learner
• Learning & Thinking Skills
• Power Tools of Learning

And finally,  a section for you to record your "Year in Review".  This is the perfect place to reflect on your goals and praise God for the progress and answered prayers.

This will become a treasured keepsake of your year, and I know it is a resource I will not be doing without!


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