Organizers, planners and timetables
I wrote about how I did my planning in 2010 and 2011.
I have provided the downloads in MS Word .doc files so that you can tweak and change these forms to suit your own planning.
1. Overview & Year Planner
For a bird’s-eye view of a balanced and holistic education I used “Home Centred Learning Methods” model from The WholeHearted Child Home Education Handbook by Clay and Sally Clarkson from Whole Heart Ministries. (Read the review on my Book List)
You may make a copy for each child or use different colours for each child. I wrote in all the subject materials/ books/ curriculums/ downloads needed to serve each subject and jotted them in the spaces.
Overview Year Planner – a Home Model
2. Blank Year Plan
Use this form to assign the subjects from your overview plan to each week/ month. Use this page to write daily, weekly or monthly work and what skills and activities we would use.
- Downloads: Blank Year Planner.pdf or Blank Year Planner.doc
3. 36 Week Planner
Our school year is about 36 weeks long. Allocate the work for each subject into the weeks for the year. This will become my master plan, but it will be flexible – I don’t REALLY know how long some work may take or if we decide to spend more time on something. It is not a strict schedule, but a guideline! [sigh of relief ...]
- Downloads: Blank 36 Week Planner.pdf or Blank 36 Week Planner.doc
4. Weekly Timetable
Fill in the Weekly Timetable to outline what work you cover for each week. There is place to record the dates and comment on the work completed (or boxes to tick!). This becomes my record of work. (Change the subjects down the side to suit your own needs.)
This is how my weekly record of work looks. (I still have to plan the Bible readings in the Bible column.)
- Downloads: Weekly Record of Work.pdf or Weekly Record of Work.doc
5. Daily Timetable
I place a Daily Timetable in each girl’s file and/or on my notice board for reference.
Daily Timetable
- Download: Week Timetable or Week Timetable.doc
Theme of the Day ~
(Click the title to read how we add a daily theme to our basics each day)
- Monday ~ Main Core = More research on the topic, read other books, get going with a project or a lapbook, sometimes just catch up on reading.
- Tuesday ~ Timeline & Science = add details to timeline chart/ Book of Centuries and a lesson from our Exploring Creation Zoology books with a quick notebook page/ minibook element
- Wednesday ~ Wonderful World = Geography study/map work/ and our regular Nature Study activity
- Thursday ~ Tea & Poetry & Shakespeare = we simply read and listen and enjoy
- Friday ~Fine Arts = Famous Composer and Famous Artist of the month. Simply appreciate his music or an artwork. We sometimes do an art activity or Sketch Tuesday while we listen to the musician.
Practical Organization Tips 1
Read about the children’s school supplies, files, seating and practical homeschool organizational tips
Practical Organization Tips 2
Peek into Our School Room
A summary of how we organize our schoolroom:
My side of the room
Report and Evaluation Pages
A post with all my report and evaluation forms:
Conclusions Closure & Congratulations ~
Read how we Review, File, Evaluate and Celebrate at the end of the year.
Organizing Art Supplies
Organizing Puzzles and Patterns
Very practical tips on how to organize your children’s educational games, puzzles and even your dressmaking patterns!
(Feel free to download and change anything/tweak/ or ignore what will NOT work for you. )
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I hope these pages give you some ideas.
Blessings,
I really would love to see your planning pages, but when I try clicking on the links I’m coming up with a “no pages match your criteria” message, and the images won’t load on this page either. I’ve tried it in both Firefox and Safari. Don’t know if the problem is my computer or your page, but I’m sad, because I really need to get on the ball with planning the next school year too! Especially with a new baby due in November!
Nadene,
There seems to be some links not working, can you have a look at them please.
Thanks for the great ideas, but none of the links seem to work at the moment.
Hi Nadene! I LOVE planners and organizers! I tried to dl them but it went to a page that said something like no such thing exists…
Honey
…who is planning on being more organized come the new year!
Sorry everyone, I’ve updated all my links and re-checked them and I’m sure you can all download these pages. So sorry for the glitch!
Thank you, Nadene. I love your planners as well. A question, how do you use the weekly plan. One for each child, all children and you included there?If you can, I will appreciate it. Thank you very much!
Ps. I was able to print them out after a 2nd try or so, it worked well!
Thanks Patricia! I share the weekly planner for my 2 middleschool children. You could adapt the planner to include more children or print a sheet for each group of children that will do the same type of studies. I don’t do individual planners as there is usually too much duplication, but my High Schooler has her own schedule.
Thanks Nadene, when I saw your 2010 planners back in July I was blown away — the Wholehearted Child ‘picture’helped me sort out what was really important and has guided ALL my planning for 2011. Thanks for the blanks — now I don’t have to battle through MS Word or Excel on my own! Your Artist and Musician pages have been a blessing too! Now that YOUR planning is done — have a wonderful, relaxing festive season. God bless!
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These lesson plans are really cool. I love them. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Thanks so much for the book recommendation in your comments on my planning post. I love how the top form divides planning into life skills, discussion, discovery, and discplined studies. Thanks for all these wonderful new resources–I’ve subscribed so I don’t miss anything.
Hi recently I printed out a pg. from your site it was
Beautiful Girlhood…ideals. You had made it for your girls I think… anyways mine got crumpled and I can’t find it on your site again. Can you put a link somewhere to it on your page? thanks so much for the beautiful page!
@Stephanie, I put links to all these pictures and other inspirational or Scripture posts on Bible Pages.