Anyone willling to share their self-made planners?

I don't know if you've posted your plan in another thread, but you should! Many people who don't like planners would never venture into this one, and they'd miss out on the gold mine you just posted. You are awesome!!!

helena · July 29, 2012

Helena,
I don't know if you've posted your plan in another thread, but you should! Many people who don't like planners would never venture into this one, and they'd miss out on the gold mine you just posted. You are awesome!!!

Thanks! :001_smile:

I'll start a new thread.

Ecclecticmum · July 29, 2012

I am very impressed! I would love to put together a schedule like this, I think it would make our days and weeks run a whole lot smoother. What do you do if you ever fall behind? That would be my only concern with having everything all scheduled out for a whole year.

I just concentrated on what was there, so if there was stuff for the week that wasn't done, we would finish it before moving onto the next week. We school year round, the planner has no dates attached to it (just week 1, day 1 etc) so, yes sometimes it may take us 3 days to do "day 1" if we had doctors appointments or life dramas ;)

~Anna~ · July 29, 2012

I just made a weekly checklist I am going to start using. I am just starting, so I am not sure exactly what we will be able to accomplish, so I thought I could use this to make a rough plan of what I want to get accomplished for the week.

Planning our school year

besroma · July 30, 2012

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kolamum · July 30, 2012

Here, here, & here.

jaspershiloh · July 30, 2012

Wow, these links are really helpful to me too. Thanks so much!

mom31257 · July 30, 2012

For those who have printed and bound their own whole planners, what type paper did you use?

Thanks!

Ecclecticmum · July 30, 2012

For those who have printed and bound their own whole planners, what type paper did you use?

Thanks!

For my new natural learners journal (not blogged about yet) I just used normal copy paper (so I think its something like 80gsm? :confused: ) But I was literally in a rush (had to print it out and get it to the office place to be bound straight away) I'm doing up another one soon, and I will probably go get the next gsm up (100? 120? ) because its just that *little* itsy bit too see-through. Just enough that it irks me LOL. But thats my OCD coming into play.

I used the board/card type paper at the front and back, then they added a vinyl type backing and a clear cover. The two bits of card inside just helped make it still flexible, but not too floppy, so I will probably do the same with the next lot.

momto2Cs · July 30, 2012

Mine is more of a tracker than a planner. Planning ahead always ends in frustration for me. I do like to have a general idea of where we're going, but I don't plan it all out anymore.

Anyhow, here's my tracker:

HS Tracker 2012-13

ETA: I plan to simply print these up double sided, one for each child each week. Three-hole punch them, and store them in a binder. I haven't been tracking much the last couple of years, because in California you don't have to, but I'd like to start keeping better track. I may mess around with this a bit, maybe have note space after each subject rather than all at the bottom/back.

Edited July 30, 2012 by momto2Cs

Country Girl · July 31, 2012

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has posted their ideas and plans here. Unfortunately, we had a family emergency come up and are traveling. So I haven't had a chance to look at them all yet, but will when we get back home. I'm excited to take some time and look through them all and get our final plans for the year figured out.

Thanks!

kwg · July 31, 2012

Mine is more of a tracker than a planner. Planning ahead always ends in frustration for me. I do like to have a general idea of where we're going, but I don't plan it all out anymore.

Anyhow, here's my tracker:

HS Tracker 2012-13

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I am going to try this! Thank you!

I am not the OP but thank you to everyone! Wow! You ladies rock! :D It is suddenly very clear to me why my house is a disaster and we don't get things done like I want :tongue_smilie::lol: That kind of planning makes my head hurt.

kirstenhill · July 31, 2012

I finished my planner for 2012-2013! I was inspired by this thread and found the template I modified to create the "weekly planner" portion of my planner! (Thanks, littlewigglebutts for sharing your "chiller" planner!).

I posted pictures on my blog (better pictures and more close ups than in my post about last year's planner): http://homeschooldiscoveries.com/2012/07/31/2012-2013-d-i-y-homeschool-planner/

This is a great thread...I must be a planner geek because it is so fun to see what everyone uses for planners!

dharmacat · July 31, 2012

Don't judge me I am going to have to come back to this thread when I have time to read all entries and check the links. :lol:

:iagree::lol::lol::lol:

PeterPan · August 1, 2012

I finished my planner for 2012-2013! I was inspired by this thread and found the template I modified to create the "weekly planner" portion of my planner! (Thanks, littlewigglebutts for sharing your "chiller" planner!).

I posted pictures on my blog (better pictures and more close ups than in my post about last year's planner): http://homeschooldiscoveries.com/2012/07/31/2012-2013-d-i-y-homeschool-planner/

This is a great thread...I must be a planner geek because it is so fun to see what everyone uses for planners!

Hey, I like your idea of marking the calendar with highlighters the weeks you intend to be on for school. Why did I never think of that? I always just sit there recalculating and trying to remember. Definitely gotta do that. :D

FloridaLisa · August 1, 2012

Just replying so I can come back to this thread! Lots of good ideas to add to my current organization system. And y'all are such great motivation to get going!

Lisa

BibleBeltCatholicMom · August 1, 2012

I finished my planner for 2012-2013! I was inspired by this thread and found the template I modified to create the "weekly planner" portion of my planner! (Thanks, littlewigglebutts for sharing your "chiller" planner!).

I posted pictures on my blog (better pictures and more close ups than in my post about last year's planner): http://homeschooldiscoveries.com/2012/07/31/2012-2013-d-i-y-homeschool-planner/

This is a great thread...I must be a planner geek because it is so fun to see what everyone uses for planners!

Oh, Ho! Like that goals section. I really think that is what's missing on mine. I like the way I have mine (I don't blog, tho) but sometimes I have trouble keeping my goals present in my mind . . . hidden, as they are, behind a tab.

Good job!

Incognito · August 6, 2012

Tjej--I would love to see the whole thing, but when I try to scroll down it doesn't work. I get the general idea. I'm just being nosy....um....curious, I guess. Also, what is pvc pipe work?

Sorry I'm taking so long to respond - we were away on a wonderful holiday. :)

I don't think I can show you the whole thing because it took me a few PMs and help from my husband to get that on there, but it is really just all the same type of thing with different subject headings.

PVC pipe work is actually probably going to come off the list, but it is playing with PVC pipe and those attachments. People have posted about it on here before - like giant tinker toys that you can add water features to. :) I want to have some of the fun things like that on my plan so I don't forget about them, but I think I'll just have a list at the bottom of everything and go through that every couple of weeks and make sure we aren't forgetting about interesting projects/resources we have. FWIW I haven't bought the pipe yet, but it sounds so very fun and right up my kids' alley.

shutterbugtn · August 9, 2012

Thank you for sharing this. I spent the day creating my version for my son. It turned out better than I hoped for. I personalized it for us. I put subjects in color that require him to work with me. I also made a section for notes, reading log, and running log.

Here is a link to mine. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sE0UJvYjXYVmncAjzZ7i2sRQZYiCTBzC2ybID4rS4sc/edit

C&P from another thread:

Here's a sample page from one of my kids' planners. This is from dd when she was in 5th. At that point, I still tell her pretty much exactly what to do each day, though you'll see that some subjects at the bottom say what needs to be accomplished in the week, spread out over the days when I say to work on that topic:

Here's a sample form ds' 8th grade planner. You can see that I mostly tell him what needs to be done during the week, and then he can make notes about specifically what to do each day on the facing page. There's also space for additional assignments or notes on assignments. That's for outside class work that's assigned or writing down field trips that we take or books he reads on his own time, etc.

These are just made in Word. For the last few years, I've typed up our whole year ahead of time and had it printed and bound before we start for the year. It really helps keep *me* on track, when life begins to pop up and create havoc. That said, this year we have more significant changes coming up and I may handle it differently...

Tawlas · August 10, 2012

I finished my planner for 2012-2013! I was inspired by this thread and found the template I modified to create the "weekly planner" portion of my planner! (Thanks, littlewigglebutts for sharing your "chiller" planner!).

I posted pictures on my blog (better pictures and more close ups than in my post about last year's planner): http://homeschooldiscoveries.com/2012/07/31/2012-2013-d-i-y-homeschool-planner/

This is a great thread...I must be a planner geek because it is so fun to see what everyone uses for planners!

kristenhill I LOVE this planner and your system! It's exactly what I want! I have an ipad but I REALLY think I need a paper and pencil kind of planner. I just seem to work better that way as far as plans go. I only have a kindergartener and a preschooler (and expecting another) so I'm pretty darn flexible and writing everything out ahead of time would just be a waste. To have a blank template like this that I can pencil in before the weeks starts would be ideal! I know if I don't have a plan, things just won't get done so this is a great way for me.

I really like the far-right hand column with "goals" and such. I can see the topics in the "Chill Weekly Planner" but I can't make out how you changed yours. Care to share?

kolamum · August 10, 2012

Wow, these links are really helpful to me too. Thanks so much!

Lightweight cardstock. :D

kirstenhill · August 10, 2012

kristenhill I LOVE this planner and your system! It's exactly what I want! I have an ipad but I REALLY think I need a paper and pencil kind of planner. I just seem to work better that way as far as plans go.

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I really like the far-right hand column with "goals" and such. I can see the topics in the "Chill Weekly Planner" but I can't make out how you changed yours. Care to share?

If you download it as an excel file (I can't remember if there was more than one option), everything was editable for me. I think I may have had to "save as" first to make it not a read-only file on my computer. So then I was just able to click on the headings and change them? I think they may have looked for a moment like they were suddenly not going to face sideways, but once I stopped typing in each field and clicked the next one, the text turned the proper way on its own.

Tawlas · August 11, 2012

thank you for getting back to me on this! I realize now that I worded it rather poorly :001_smile:. I meant to ask what things you specifically listed in that far-right column. I left a space for notes on our nature walk that week, a space for supplies and library books needed, a space for the virtue we'll be focusing on etc. Just being nosy as to what you put in :tongue_smilie:

kirstenhill · August 11, 2012

thank you for getting back to me on this! I realize now that I worded it rather poorly :001_smile:. I meant to ask what things you specifically listed in that far-right column. I left a space for notes on our nature walk that week, a space for supplies and library books needed, a space for the virtue we'll be focusing on etc. Just being nosy as to what you put in :tongue_smilie:

Ok! It's goals, spiritual focus, Character development, Questions asked, Topics of interest, Learning opportunities, notes, activities

I kind of picked those as headings I liked from a few different planners. I'm not sure yet how well I will make use of them. We're not back to our full schedule yet, but i already found one other thing I wish I would have done differently. We don't really ever do school on the weekend, I just left that column there because I thought it would mess up the layout to take it out. But what I wish I would have done is moved all the "day" columns one place to the right and then with the freed-up column on the far left put an "overview" column. I would use that to put something like the lesson # for the week in spelling (1 lesson = 1 week), then in the daily spelling columns writing the activity we do that day and not feeling like I need to write the lesson # over and over again.

The nice thing about the pro-click is I can redo this if I want to! :lol: I'll only be out the handful of sheets of paper/toner I used to print it. But I'm going to give it a few more weeks and see if I think of any other improvements....like maybe any different headings on the right.

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