I am homeschooling 3 children currently, and soon it will be 4. My current planner is a simple one that has 6 subject boxes at the top, and days down the side and you fill it in. I have been writing each child's name, then what they did in that subject in each box. It's getting a bit full. The boxes just aren't big enough. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a planner? I don't want a gradebook/planner combo. Just a planner. But it needs to have room room for multiple students. I really don't want to have 4 separate books. Room is limited around here and I to keep these books for several years as required. I browsed amazon, but they were either combos or more complicated then what I needed. Or if someone has any great suggestions for making a regular planner work, I'm open to them!
Thank you so much for the advice! I've got some things to try now.
As an art teacher, I could never find a teacher planner that worked for exactly what I needed, so I made my own. Just use Word and create a table of exactly what you want, then photocopy, punch holes, and use a 3 ring binder. You can add dividers, too, to be even more organized!
I homeschooled for 20 years and things changed throughout, but I usually adapted something I found to suit our needs, so designing your own is good. If not check out the free things at these two sites
http://www.donnayoung.org/forms/planners/index.htm
or try here
http://home.comcast.net/~askpauline/hs/homeschoolforms.html
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I homeschool as well. I have 3 children & i would recommend getting a simple notebook or compostion book and dedicating a page to each child. You can write what they do on it from day to day. For the older children, one days work normally fill the page. For my youngest, 2-3 days work can sometimes fit on one page. It is the simplest way i've found to keep records and help keep the children's work organized. I hope you are able to find something that works for you.
I homeschool four almost five children. The best thing for me was typing up lesson plans. Instead of putting dates however I put Day 1, Day 2, Day 3... all through the month. This worked because I never felt rushed to complete anything that we did not get done the day before.
I keep all of these typed plans in one three ring binder and use tabs to seperate by name. I also have our group work typed up like this and in a seperate tab.
I used the planner but it never really met my needs.
I homeschool, and own a HS group, so lesson planning can be a bother...
I did find one program that is very kewl! And I can print sheets out for record keeping, or burn it onto a disk. It is called Homeschool Tracker...I have the plus version, but Homeschool Tracker is free..:)
Just a suggestion!
Have you tried the donnayoung website. They have some free printable planner sheets.
