Our Home Made Student Homeschool Planner Courtesy of DonnaYoung.org

This year, I’ve decided to go eclectic on our school curriculum. I am using a mix of Ambleside Online’s living books, combined with some of our local textbooks. Most of my resources came from the internet. I’ll be sharing my children’s course of study in my next blog. For now, have a look at the student planners that I’ve created for each of my children. Online casino Ireland. ###

All the forms that I used here came from Donna Young’s website where everything is free to use. I’ve created a student planner for all three of my daughters.

I used board paper to make this cover on Microsoft Word.

The first page is our school calendar July 2009 – June 2010.

Here is the attendance sheet with our name Padrelanan Heritage of Faith Homeschool. Each child has this page in their own planner. I really like this attendance sheet because the weekends are already shaded and Donna Young provided typable PDF’s so I was able to type in our family’s homeschool name and the name of each student. I instructed my daughters to place a check mark on the days that we did school, write an S if they are sick, and FT for field trip. Seeing all those check marks give us all a lot of satisfaction.

The next two pages show the Course of Study where I have listed down every subject that she will study this school year and what books she will be using. The Course of Study can be downloaded as Typable PDF or Word. I chose Word. Since I have most of the resources in my hard drive, I also noted down which file to find them.

I included here Ambleside Online’s Scope and Sequence for all six years, this is just for my reference.

Here is the Subject Planner divider. I learned of this idea from Donna Young where instead of writing her plans weekly, which caused a lot of erasures if subjects are not done for the day, she instead made subject planner forms.

In this form, you simply write down the lessons the child has to do in the order that you want her to do it, thus preventing the erasures. The first subject is Math, but I decided to just print the Content of her Math book, every Lesson representing the lesson she has to do for a week.

This is her Grammar and Composition Planner, we are using World of Language and I’ve written down the lessons here.

The weekly planners for Ambleside Online’s Literature and History that I downloaded and is very organized, no need for me to make a new one. For Math, I just printed out the Contents page of their Math books and included those here.

I made subject planners for every subject that my child is studying. Here is where to get the forms.

Now here is where my student’s work will come in – her weekly planner. Although I’ve done most of the subject planners, I still want her to be responsible for listing down every day the subjects that she has taken up for the day. Right now, I am still dictating the lessons we are taking up daily. In the future though, I want her to take control of the subjects by deciding what she will be studying for the week based on the subject planners I’ve created.

Extras hold their List of Books Read, Volunteer Work and Achievements.

Finally, here is where the grades will be recorded.

I have to admit that this is the first time I’ve created a planner. This is because the past curriculums I’ve used were boxed curriculums so the planning has already been done for us. This year, though, is different for us. I find that having a planner is very helpful for us as it guides us daily. Although, I also don’t allow it to hold us in too much of a vice. By that I mean that we don’t necessarily have to finish all the subjects in a day. If there is really just no more time, and some subjects have not been taken up, there’s always tomorrow. Whereas in the past, we would study till 8:00PM just to finish all the subjects, this year I’ve decided that we’ll finish studying at 4:00PM everyday. It doesn’t matter if we’ve done all the subjects or not.

After I have printed everything, I took it to my neighborhood printer and binder and had it ring bound for P40.00. Not bad, huh?

TIP: If you click on the pictures, you’ll see a larger image.