Curriculum Planner

This is new for me.  I mean it’s hard to know that it is the fall season now when I live in a place that is springtime each day.  We don’t set our clocks here in Ecuador and other than a bit more rain for part of the year, each day is the same as the next one.

Just as a side note, too each day the sun rises and sets pretty close to the same time.  So it’s dark here around 6:00 p.m. and light around 6:00 a.m. 

I did not realize how much seasonally I prepared my curriculum pages for the homeschool planner, or slowed down or changed my pace for school.

This will take some getting use to when there is not really any fall or winter weather.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

But knowing that it is close to the winter break or at least winter for you, I get excited because it’s time to start creating all new forms for next year. 

Too, I know some of you start putting your new planner together about April and I like to have a good part of it done by then.

I am always so eager to get started early because it allows me to create several options and colors and to take my time creating them.  Today, I have the free 2015 to 2016 year around school planning page, option 1.

You know I like a variety of colors and options in my pages, so today I opted for a bit more of a clean look by not putting a background color. 

I haven’t planned the new curriculum covers yet, but hopefully by providing an option or two without a background, you can mix and match the colored covers to make your homeschool planner look unique next year.

Download Option 1 2015 to 2016 Year Around School Planning Schedule

Hope you like the first option today.

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It’s killing me! This is the first year that I have not been able to coil bind my 7 Step Homeschool Planner because each piece of luggage was perfectly weighed so that we could bring them to South America.

It came down to a choice between a math book for Tiny and my homeschool planner to pack in our bag.  You know which one I had to pack.   I did find some other things here, but first I have to let you know that I have another form ready and it is the 7 Step Homeschool Planner Free Library Resources List.

I am so excited about this newest form because I have a whole host of forms that I slowly work on as I get wired excited as the homeschool planner grows with more options each year.

Before I tell you about the Library Resources List though I wanted to share a few pictures of what I saw the other day walking down the streets here in Ecuador.

The sight of it was enough to make an organizing loving gal’s heart go pitter-patter.

I saw this office supply storefront and just knew I had found a place to do coil binding.

Sigh. . . no, but of course they had so many other “goodies” there that I couldn’t bring with me in a bag when we first got here.  I  knew I just had to step inside and take a peek.

The inside was enough to make me not breathe.  I have been too long without my organizing pretties.

I am still on the hunt for a coil binding place, but for now, I have visited this place each week.  I didn’t want to buy too many things before we move into our new home, but I am over the top excited about finding this big place.

It’s the small things you take for granted like coil binding until you don’t have them.  But then again, I am loving the adventure of finding new things.

Enough about me.  This is about you today because I am excited to share a Library Resources List.

You know how I feel about creating forms for the Free 7 Step Homeschool Planner.  I just create as I go along and take my time with each form.

I am a stickler for correct names of forms too.  So titles of forms matter.  The title of this form is “Library RESOURCES” and not Library Books.

Most of the time we can borrow so many more things from a library other than just books.  For example, at our library we can borrow DVDS too.

So I used a more broad term to include other media you may borrow from the library.

Then the next thing I did was to divide the sections by 10 items.

Sometimes we will pick up a lot of items at the library and sometimes it is just a few.  But hopefully, with the sections divided by 10 items, which means that 30 titles fit on one page, it will help you to see at a glance how many items are not returned yet.

So the captions across the top are titles, due date and then a column to mark when you have returned the item.

Plus I like things separated a bit when I am writing on my planner instead of everything running together.

Today, I have one color choice, but you know I love color options.  So you know what that means, right?  More color options coming!

After all, no one curriculum planner should ever be matchy-match.  It should be unique, like you! Couldn’t resist a bit of sugary sweetness.  Okay, that’s enough.

Hope you like it!

Download here Library Resources List

Hugs and love ya,

Did you grab these other printables?

Begin building your free 7 Step Homeschool Planner below. You’ll never go back to downloading one planner that may fit your needs this year, but not the next.

7 Easy Steps – “Tons of Options & Pretty Color” Begin building your planner.

Step 1. Choose a Pretty Front/Back Cover

Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers

Step 3. Choose Goals/Objectives

Step 4. Choose Lesson Planning Pages Right For You!

Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You! Not a kazillion other people

Step 5b. Choose MORE Unique Forms JUST for You!

Step 5c. Choose MORE MORE Unique Forms Just for You!

Step 6. Personalize It

Step 7. Bind it! Love it!

Because I take my time creating my curriculum planner printables for my 7 Step Homeschool Planner, I find inspiration at anytime.  So today, for the back cover curriculum planner, I was so stoked when I was reminded of the saying that “One Mother Teaches More than a Hundred Teachers” that I created another option choice for the back cover.

That is such a powerful statement that I felt like it deserved it’s own page. 

Don’t underestimate the influence and power you have today over changing your children’s future.  And a gentle but power packed reminder each day, will hopefully keep us both pumped up for the days when we wonder why we are homeschooling.

I’m in a pinkish, purplish and turquoise-y (my new word) kind of elegant mood today.  Too, since I never strive to have all my pages matching because I always want you to have a unique planner and not one huge boring matching conundrum, I hope you like the color choice. 

You never know when the inspiration strikes and I will have to create more options.

Enjoy the newest back cover!

Download Back Cover Option 3 Here.

Hugs and love ya

Did you already grab your 2 page spread appointment keepers for the academic year or for 2015?

Rainbow, New Beginnings  and Dreaming Color Schemes shown below.

 

 

Yikes! I have been in a panic mode since it has been full speed ahead for moving out of our home.  So knowing that I will be traveling soon, I went ahead and prepared the 2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule form.

Remember this is NOT a calendar.  Okay, well it is, but it isn’t.  Just calendars are kept on STEP 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers.

This is a planning form.  There is a fine difference.  A calendar is for a reference and a planning schedule is for planning school noting important things that come up in your life which will affect your school.

Since year around homeschooling is an option and it is about planning too, these types of forms are kept on STEP 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You!

Forms on Step 2, which are calendars, are a must-have for your planner but the forms on Step 5 are option forms.  This fine difference between the two steps or calendars helps you to stay organized as I always want you to have control over how you put your planner together.

Also, just to remind you of the uses of this form because I have new faces following me, look at these options:

• This form works for you if you live in a country where your school year begins with the physical year.
• This forms works for you if you prefer to follow the physical year instead of the school year.  By the way, I did this for many years and I loved it.  I wouldn’t have all the school hype for changing grade levels during a busy time and it seemed prices were cheaper too on some curriculum during mid-winterish.
• This forms works for you if pull your children out mid-school year and want to start planning.

Do you have any other ways you use this form?

Download the 2015 Year Around Homeschool Planning Schedule here.

 

Don’t  forget to check out my other forms I made.

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