The Print ShopForms and templates
The paperwork, with nothing written on it
22 sheets that are supposed to be empty: logs and report forms, a blank calendar and a week to plan, chore and behavior charts, cards and bookmarks to cut out, certificates, and a die and a spinner to make.
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Each of these is a page that is itself the sheet — open it, press print, and that is the whole of it. None of them has an answer key, because none of them asks a question.
Reading and writing
Headings to write under, and a record of what has been read.
- Reading log — Fourteen ruled rows under five columns — Date, What I read, Pages, Minutes and Signed — for two weeks of reading at a time.
- Book report form — A page of plain headings for a book that has been finished: the title, who wrote it, what it is about, the favorite part and why, and who else should read it.
- Story map — Who is in it, where and when, and what goes wrong — then the three boxes a story is actually told in: beginning, middle and end.
- Paragraph frame — Five boxes — a topic sentence, three reasons with a detail each, and a closing sentence — that read as a finished paragraph once they are joined up.
- Writing prompt — One prompt across the top of the page and college-ruled lines under it — a different prompt each time the seed moves.
Science and history
The paperwork round a lesson, with none of the lesson supplied.
- Lab report sheet — What we were trying to find out, what we used, what we did in order, what happened, and what we think it means — the write-up, with none of the science supplied.
- Scientific method sheet — Six numbered boxes in order: the question, what I already know, what I think will happen and why, how I will test it, what happened, and what that tells me.
- Observation journal — The date, the time and the weather across the top, a box to draw what was seen, and ruled lines under it for what was noticed about it.
- Timeline — Ten rows in two columns — When on the left and What happened on the right — with a heavy line ruled down the boundary between them.
The week
Seven columns, and something different to put in them each time.
- Blank calendar — Seven columns headed with the days of the week and five rows of empty squares, with no month and no year printed anywhere on it.
- Weekly planner — The seven days down the page with three columns across each — morning, afternoon and evening — for a week planned by when rather than by what.
- Chore chart — Ten blank rows for the jobs, seven day columns across them, and a box to tick when one is done.
- Behavior chart — Eight rows for the things being worked on, the seven days across them, and a column on the end to count up how many went well.
- Verse of the week — Proverbs 3:5-6 set large across the top, with a row for each stage of learning it and a box for every day of the week.
Cards to cut out
Paper at a stated size, with the cut lines on every boundary.
- Blank flashcards — Eight blank cards to a page at 3.75 by 2.25 inches, with a cut line on every boundary including the outside trim.
- Name tags — Four tent name tags to a page at 3.75 by 4.625 inches, folded in half so each panel stands up and reads from both sides.
- Blank bookmarks — Four blank bookmarks to a page at 1.875 by 7.5 inches, laid out along the page with cut lines on every boundary.
- Memory verse cards — Six cards to a page at 3.75 by 3 inches, each printing John 3:16 in full with its reference over it.
- Scripture bookmarks — Three bookmarks to a page at 2.5 by 7.5 inches, each printing the whole of Psalm 23.
Awards, dice and spinners
The three that are objects rather than pages.
- Award certificates — One certificate to a page at 10 by 6.875 inches, printed landscape, with ruled lines for who it is for, what it is for, the date and a signature.
- Dice to cut out — A cube net two inches on a side with seven glue tabs, spotted so that opposite faces add to seven.
- Spinner template — A dial cut into six equal sectors of 60°, numbered, with the pointer to cut out and pin through the middle printed underneath it.
They are supposed to be empty
There is no content on any of these pages, which is the whole reason they can be trusted.
A reading log is a reading log whoever printed it, and there is nothing on one that could be wrong. That is not true of everything a worksheet site offers: generated “5th grade science worksheets” with nobody editing them produce plausible nonsense, and a wrong fact on a page a child trusts is worse than no page at all. So what is here is a lab report form and a scientific methodsheet — the paperwork round an experiment, which is ours to print — and the experiment itself is yours.
Three things on the shelf are worked out rather than left blank, and each of them is worked out because getting it wrong would be a sheet that lies. A dated calendar’s weekdays are arithmetic with a right answer, and a first of the month under the wrong day is a sheet somebody plans a term around. A die’s faces have to come out opposite in threes adding to seven, which is a fact about the folding rather than about the drawing, so the numbering is derived from the folds. And a spinner’s sectors are equal, because “do you think this is fair?” is the question a spinner exists to answer. Everything else here is a heading, a rule and a box.
On the pages that get cut up, the geometry is the difficulty. The cut lines sit on the boundaries between the cards and the outside trim is one of them, so nothing is cut freehand; there is no gutter, so one pass of a trimmer makes two cards rather than two cuts and a strip of waste; and whatever paper is left over is split evenly round the block instead of between the cards, so a stack of cut sheets is square with itself. Every card is a whole number of eighths of an inch, which is what lets a page say its cards are 3¾ by 2¼ inches and be held to it with a ruler.
Every page here is a setting
Four families print these twenty-two sheets, and what makes one of them the page you wanted is a handful of numbers: how many rows a chart has, how many cards there are to a page, how much room each answer gets, whether a name tag folds, how many sectors a spinner is cut into. All of them are controls in the builder, so a chore chart with six rows or a dated calendar for next March is the same sheet with one number moved rather than a page somebody has to have written first.
The three sheets that carry a verse work the same way. A memory-verse card, a Scripture bookmark and the verse-of-the-week chart are the ordinary card and chart families with a passage chosen, from the same picker the copywork sheets use — which is why they are listed above beside the flashcards and the chore chart rather than in a section of their own. Any passage in the library, or a verse pasted in, gives the identical sheet, and the credit line at the foot of the paper travels with the words.
The rest of the Print Shop
Ten shelves and ten school years, over the same sheets. A shelf is what a sheet is; a year is who it was drawn for, which every sheet states on its own page.
By subject
By grade
Your child’s name is not in the file
Where a sheet here has a Name: line at all, it is printed blank and filled in with a pencil — a wall chart and a page about to be cut into six do not have one. No account is needed to print anything, nothing is uploaded, and a sheet you send to another family carries the settings you chose and nothing else — see what we don’t collect.