My Student Logbook Review

I am really excited to tell you about this next product!  I wish I had it years ago and I'm just so happy to have now found it!

It's called My Student Logbook.  My Student Logbook was created by a busy homeschool family, just like you and I.  They were looking for a simple system to track and log schoolwork each day as it was completed.  Like me, they tried to create their own tracking sheet, and it was too time consuming.  They finally created this easy to use logbook that we are just loving!!


I've been through so many different planners, you wouldn't believe.  They are just not for me.  Too many forms that don't apply to us or forms that are close to what I need but are not perfect.  I've also made my own log sheets, but it's time consuming and last year I printed off way too much paper.

That's why I was so excited to try My Student Logbook!  The idea is simple.

My Student Logbook comes in three options:

* Dated August 31 - July 31
* Dated January 1 - December 31
* Undated

It also comes in 9 different covers, which you get to choose:

There you have it!  You select the dates you want your logbook to go through, the cover you would like, and you are done.  Funny Bunny chose the Golden Vines, which you can see in the larger picture above.

Here is what is included in your book:

* Intro Page
* Setup Instructions
* High School Transcript article
* 6 Checklist Pages
* 53 Weekly Pages
* All About Me Page
* Prayers and Goals Page
* Bible Verses Memorized Page
* 3 Books Read Pages
* 3 Events, Projects, Field Trips, Presentations, Activities Pages
* 3 Test Records Pages
* 1 Year Highlights Page


Here is how you set it up:

* Tear out a checklist page from the front of the book
* Cut off the torn edge
* Fold on the line so the checklist faces out
* Write your assignments or tasks on the checklist
* Tape the checklist to the back of the page with the week you want to start

* Fold the checklist over the front

My Thoughts:  I absolutely love this book and wish I would have thought of something so simple and easy to use!  Funny Bunny has been using it to check off work that she has completed, and it is not only helpful for her to see how much she has left for the day, but also a great log of what she has completed for the year.  I listed all of her subjects on one of the checklist pages and taped it to the back of the first week we started with.  She doesn't do all of these subjects in one day, some alternate, but she can check them off as she completes them.  It sits on the side of her desk so she can easily check things off. Below is a sample from one week.

I like that there are 6 checklist pages included.  If we ever decide to change what she is working on each day, I can tear out a new checklist, write our new assignments, and tape it to the next week. You can also see that our checklist is starting to show some wear.  I just may make a fresh one in a few more weeks.  

Find Out More:  You can find out more online at My Student Logbook.  My Student Logbook is just $15 and the shipping is a flat rate of $5.  It comes in 9 different covers that you can choose from and you can select the 2014-2015 School Year, the 2015 Calendar Year, or Undated.  There is also the option for a PDF download instead of the physical book.  The PDF Instant Downloads are $10 for a Single Use License and $20 for a Family Use License.

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Schoolhouse Planners Giveaway!!

I'm giving away TWO Schoolhouse Planners: The Big Mama of all Planners AND one Student Planner of your choice!

Schoolhouse Planner

Simplify your life with the 2013-14 Schoolhouse Planner. Inside you’ll find all the forms you’ve ever wanted to organize home and school.

• Helpful articles written by homeschooling experts as well as homeschooling parents just like you.
• Interactive calendars, planning pages, field trip logs, and transcripts.
• Must-have lists, including books of the Bible, grammar and spelling rules, a periodic table of the elements, U.S. Presidents and more!
• Helpful household forms such as chore charts, grocery lists, and meal-planning charts.

Design a custom planner with the more than 800 pages of unique forms. Get your school year on track with the 2013-14 “Big Mama” Schoolhouse Planner. ~ $39

Special Learners Schoolhouse Planner

Homeschooling your special needs child requires an extra measure of organization and planning. Look at these tools inside the 2013-14 Schoolhouse Special Learners Planner:

•  Helpful articles written by special needs experts as well as homeschooling mothers of special learners.
•  Interactive calendars, planning pages, and household organization charts.
•  Homeschool Individualized IEP, medical and therapy forms, and weekly food and behavior diaries.
•  Task analysis cards to help teach life skills and more!

Make your year successful for you and your special needs learner with the 2012-13 Schoolhouse Special Learners Planner. ~ $29

Primary Schoolhouse Planner

Teach your children the skills they need to get organized and gain independence. Provide them with the 2013-14 Schoolhouse Primary Planner.

•  Engaging articles written just for primary students.
•  Information lists such as Caldecott and Newbery award winners, grammar rules, story starters, math tables, and animal classification chart.
•  Calendars, planning pages, field trip report sheets, book and video logs, chore charts and a Bible reading schedule.
•  Recipes for delicious dishes they can make themselves.

Give your child the organization tools he needs with the 2013-14 Schoolhouse Primary Planner. ~ $9.95

Intermediate Schoolhouse Planner

Watch your middle schoolers gain time-management skills with the 2013-14 Schoolhouse Intermediate Planner. Your 5th to 8th graders will enjoy:

• Interesting articles written just for them.
• Planning sheets and calendars
• Forms for writing goals, course objectives, and book reports.
• A kid’s financial record, Bible reading schedules, and an address book.

Help your pre-teen gain independence and organizational skills with the 2013-14 Schoolhouse Intermediate Planner. ~ $19

High School Schoolhouse Planner

Prepare your high schooler for life after homeschool. Develop time management and organization skills with the 2013-14 Schoolhouse High School Planner.

• Encouraging articles for him written by homeschool graduates, as well as expertly written articles to help with study skills, college planning, and creating a high school course.
• Calendar and planning pages, record-keeping forms, transcripts, and forms for goal planning and objectives.
•  A guide for planning a high school course of study.
•  A college checklist, forms for tracking scholarship information, and for exploring career ideas.
•  Logs for tracking community service, discipleship, bible memorization, and independent study.

Your 9th to 12th grader will gain a lifetime of time-management skills with the 2012-13 Schoolhouse High School Planner. ~ $29+

The Schoolhouse Planners are FREE for SchoolhouseTeachers subscribers -- $3 for the first month, $12.95 per month thereafter.  You gain access to the Planners immediately upon joining.

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GIVEAWAY!!

So, here's how one reader can win one (1) Big Mama Schoolhouse Planner and one (1) Student Planner of their choice!  For each comment, you will get one (1) entry.

1. Leave a comment and tell me why you would like to win.

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Back to Homeschool Ebook

Have you heard about the Back to Homeschool ebook?  If you are looking for help in planning your homeschool year, look no further!

A friend of mine has written a wonderful planner for those who are preparing the start of their homeschooling year.  Before I get into the planner though, let me tell you a little about the author, Misty.

Misty Krasawski is mom to eight wonderful children whom she homeschools.  She blogs at Encouraging Beautiful Motherhood , she is the Community Director and a contributing writer at MomHeart Online, hostess of an online mentoring program for moms called Titus 2 University, has written an article for an upcoming devotional book from Group Publishing, and is a regular contributor to Home Educating Family Magazine as well as Heart of the Matter Online .

Who would this planner benefit?

* Those wanting an answer to the question: "Where do I start in my planning"?

* Anyone wanting more organization to their planning.

* Those who would like to include their spouse in their planning.

* Someone wanting a closer relationship to God, their husband, and their children.

So how is this planner different from others?   Well for one, it does not have calendars or forms.  What it does have are thought provoking questions to think about and answer. 

This planner takes you from homeschool planning for each child, to preparing your home, and it even includes recipe ideas. 

Find Out More :  You can find out more about the Back to Homeschool at Encouraging Beautiful Motherhood.  It is an ebook, which you can download instantly for only $4.99.  You can also follow along with Misty on Facebook.

Disclosure:  This product was given to Our Homeschool Reviews for free for review purposes, and I do not have to return the products to the vendor.  I have received no compensation from it and all opinions and experiences within this review are my own.

  

Progress Cards Review/Giveaway

I think there are times in many of our lives when we could use a little help in one area or another.  This is especially true for children! 

To assist with this in our home, I've made charts, lots of charts!  I don't know how many different charts I have made over the years...chores charts, potty charts, behavior charts...and I'm sure there will be more. 

Well, a couple weeks ago I found Progress Cards.  Scott Ertl, the founder, has worked as an elementary school counselor to help children develop goals and learn how to turn their stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

He has created 60 individual progress cards for parents and children.  Some examples include:

* Morning Routine
* Homework Routine
* Get Along Better with Siblings
* Friendship Skills
* Ways To Stick Up For Others
* Stop Being Selfish
* Boost Your Self-Confidence

My Thoughts:  Although many of the Progress Cards would not work for our family, they may work for yours.  Ones I have found helpful include Healthy Meals and Snacks and Expressing Anger Appropriately.  There are others that I could see being helpful to us in the future or when the time arises.

Find Out More:  You can visit Progress Cards to learn more.  Cards can be purchased and downloaded individually for just $0.99.  The more you purchase the cheaper they are.  A complete set of 60 can be downloaded for just $19.99.  If you would like to see some samples, go HERE to receive a coupon code for Friendship Skills and Sportsmanship Tips FREE!  You can also download a FREE Progress Book.  All Progress Cards are guaranteed with a 100% money-back guarantee.

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1. Visit Progress Cards and let me know which cards appeal to you.

2. Like Progress Cards on Facebook.

3. Follow my blog using Google Friend Connect.

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5. Like my Facebook page. 

6. Follow me on Twitter @OurHSReviews. 

7. Share this giveaway on your blog or Facebook page.

8. Click HERE to vote for me (up to once a day).

9. Grab my button to the right and put in on your blog and you get TWO entries! (leave a separate comment for both).

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One random winner will be selected using Random.org on Friday, March 4, 2011. (U.S. Entries only.) If I am unable to reach the winner within 48 hours, an alternate winner will be selected. Your entry is only valid if you include a way for me to contact you (either an email address in your comment or on your profile).

Disclosure: This product was given to Our Homeschool Reviews for free for review purposes, and I do not have to return the product to the vendor. I have received no compensation from it and all opinions and experiences within this review are my own.

  

TOS Secondary Student Planner Review

Our Homeschool Reviews was asked by The Old Schoolhouse (TOS) to review one of their many student planners and I am excited to share with you what I received.  TOS has the following planners available for sale: 

Primary Planner—grades K–3

Secondary School Planner—grades 4–6
Middle School Planner—grades 7–8
High School Planner—grades 9–12



Since I was allowed to choose, I chose the Secondary School Planner for grades 4-6.  

This planner is as much for the student as it is for the parent.  Included is a 2010-2011 monthly school calendar with customizable sheets.  The calendar is wonderful, but what I have liked the best are the Informational Must-Know Lists and Forms.  I was surprised to see that there were several with information that we are studying right now.  Some of my favorite lists are:

The Miracles of Jesus (with Bible references)
Basic Roman Numerals (we just studied this in Math)
History Timeline (nice to have it all in one place)

Some forms I printed out immediately include:

Books Read This Year
Field Trip Log (love this one!)
Bible Memorization Record
Memory Work Record

There are many more and I can't even begin to list them all.   

My Thoughts: For the price, you can't beat what you are getting.  I don't have to spend the time creating all of these forms now, they are all there and I can use them year after year.  Normally I don't like using ink to print out forms, but I can choose how much I want to print and when. 

Find Out More: The Old Schoolhouse Store sells the Secondary School Planner as an e-book for only $9.95.  You can view a sample of it HERE.  

Disclosure: This product was given to Our Homeschool Reviews for free for review purposes, and I do not have to return the product to the vendor. I have received no compensation from it and all opinions and experiences within this review are my own.

2010 Schoolhouse Planner

614 Pages

Calendar through 2013

Weekly and Daily Schedules

Assignments and Attendance Charts

Planning Forms

Tracking and Activity Logs

Report Cards

Transcript Forms...and MUCH MORE!!

There are literally hundreds of forms! 

Many are customizable!!

Educational Information:

July: Tips for managing your homeschool while managing your home

August: The benefits of joining a homeschool co-op

September: The value of reading the classics

October: Teaching your children good manners: It starts with RESPECT

and MORE!

TOS Magazine's Schoolhouse Store offers The 2010 Schoolhouse Planner for only $39.  Not a bad price considering you won't have to ever buy a planner again!  You can read more about it HERE and see some sample pages HERE.  If you would like to have it on a CD, you can purchase that HERE for just a few dollars more.

You can also read my review HERE.

Disclosure: As a member of the TOS Crew, I wrote this while participating in the The Old Schoolhouse advertising campaign, making me eligible to win a prize. I received a free copy of the planner to facilitate the writing of this blog post.

2010 Schoolhouse Planner Review

WOW ~ This was all I could say when I received the 2010 Schoolhouse Planner, by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine!!  I have been looking for a planner that is versatile and that would work well for our home.  When I downloaded this planner, it was much more than I expected! 

Let me start by saying that this planner is 614 pages in total, and so much more than it's name implies!  Yes, it does contain a calendar through 2013, yes it does contain weekly and daily schedules, assignments and attendance charts, planning forms, tracking and activity logs, report cards, and transcript forms (just to name a few).  There are literally hundreds of forms!  And get this, the planner is customizable, allowing you to type in information specific to your family and print the forms you need. Yahoo!  I just love that you can customize it because the main reason I haven't bought a planner is because I am too picky!  

OK, so here is where the planner becomes much more!  Not only does it have all of these great forms, but each month gives you a ton of educational information.  

July: Tips for managing your homeschool while managing your home
August: The benefits of joining a homeschool co-op
September: The value of reading the classics
October: Teaching your children good manners: It starts with RESPECT

I may have to just start with October!  ;o)  Seriously though, those just scratched the surface, there are several more articles and family fun ideas for each month.  And one of the best parts, I think, is that there are seven recipes each month.  That's 84 new recipes for the year!!  How great is that?!

TOS Magazine's Schoolhouse Store offers The 2010 Schoolhouse Planner for only $39.  Not a bad price considering you won't have to ever buy a planner again!  You can read more about it here and see some sample pages here.  If you would like to have it on a CD, you can purchase that here for just a few dollars more.

Disclosure: As a member of the TOS Crew, Our Homeschool Reviews wrote this while participating in the The Old Schoolhouse advertising campaign, making me eligible to win a prize. I received a free copy of the planner to facilitate the writing of this blog post.