Today, I have 5 beautiful and detailed planners for homeschool moms because your organizational tool matters. And your homeschool planner should reflect how you plan.
For instance, you do not plan for a classroom or need a planner with blanks for 30 students.
However, you do need room to write if only for one child or multiple children that you’re planning for.
In addition, not all states have the same record keeping laws.
Choosing a homeschool planner matters because you have unique needs for not only your state, but the homeschool approach you’ve chosen.
Having room to write is important for homeschool moms as we choose planners.
Moreover, some of us start homeschooling by following a traditional public-school approach.
After we’ve homeschooled for a while, we embrace the true reasons we homeschool.
Adjusting lesson plans to fit our children and choosing a homeschool approach which helps our children learn best are most important.
Power Pages Planner
However, one foundation on which I build homeschool planners on is something that motivates or impacts me for the day. So, it’s important that you make the planner fit YOUR needs as well.
For example, one huge thing that motivates me are power words.
I work on a mindset each day. And having just one word to think about or shift my focus can make my day positive while planning.
I use power words as dividers in my planners.
It is a subtle way to remind me either to relax or rev up depending on the feeling I’m experiencing.
And so I created four power pack word pages.
Homeschooling is flat out tough some days and I want homeschooling planning something I look forward to.
Printable Homeschool Lesson Planner
In addition, when you print your own homeschool planner you not only get exactly what you want but can save money.
Too, you don’t really need expensive equipment to print your own planner.
For years I’ve used this Canon Pixma Printer.
And I even took it with me when we moved overseas because it fits into my backpack.
Next, I’ve always coil bound my planners. I do not like the rings which come on notebooks and want my planner to lay flat.
It’s important when you’re printing your planner to decide how you want to bind it.
Finally, if you purchase a printable planner online or print one for free, remember to add specific sections that you need which you can find here Best and Unique 7 Step Homeschool Planner.
Other Planner Tips You’ll Love:
I have more tips for you if you’re deciding on what is the best homeschool planner for you this year.
- 7 Step Free Homeschool Planner – Top 5 Questions Asked Are Answered
- 7 Step Free Homeschool Planner Inside Page – Color Choice Miss Ya
- How to Choose the BEST Homeschool Lesson Planning Pages THIS Year
- Homeschool Quarter Planning Form – Free UNIQUE 7 Step Planner
- Free Homeschool High School Planning Sheet (and pssst help for high school too)
That is the beauty of choosing planners for homeschool moms and not one for a classroom teacher.
PLANNERS FOR HOMESCHOOL MOMS
If you're looking for a planner to use for your whole homeschool journey. You're at the right place here at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus.
Forms like 21 thematic planning pages, a year at a glance page, and 12 months of planning your theme are a few included.
Adding in an editable lesson planning template and 4 colorful attendance sheets helps you to easily meet record keeping guidelines if necessary.
When you create a planner for your homeschool, you’re making it unique to your needs. Planners which are prepared for classroom use are not set up to use for a family.
Plus, when you purchase one giant put together planner, you’re not hand picking the forms you need this year.
First, this is something different than what I have now. It is a package.
No, not complete package like most people might think because I don’t believe in boring planners with tons of matchy matchy pages and given to you in one huge download.
My purpose in making this Glam It Up package is to give you just a few pages that are matching and that will jump start you to create the perfect planner.It is not my intention to make every page you may want because then the power to create what you need each year leaves you.
Look at these features.
- It is letter size. I want ample room to write and a letter size planner gives you lots of room for writing.
- It’s an ALL color planner. I LOVE beautiful designs and I know you do too.
- You print and bind it with coil. This allows the planner to lay flat and with no BIG rings in the center of the planner to get in the way of writing.
- Because it’s an undated planner, you write in the date daily. If life happens and you skip a few days, just pick up with the next school day. No getting behind because it’s YOUR schedule. Homeschooling adjusts to YOUR life instead of you feeling behind if you miss a day.
One huge mistake is trying to fit a few planning pages for a unit study into your homeschool planner.
A unit study is a completely different approach than traditional curriculum. The pages should reflect your way of teaching.
What that means is that besides planning a unit study page, your planner should have an objective page, a way to track your unit studies and lesson planning templates.
These are just a few of the unique pages you should have in your unit study planner. But what is a unit study? Here is my definition which I have used before.
