Welcome to my free planning & organization pages!
You are most welcome to download and freely use whatever you need for your own household. I have provided downloads in MS Word so that you can tweak and change these documents to suit your own planning or use them as a basic starting point. You can pop over to see my planning in 2010 and 2011.
Overview & Year Planner
Clay and Sally Clarkson amazing book “The WholeHearted Child Home Education Handbook“ designed a “house” model which I used to plan a bird’s-eye overview of a full, well-rounded education. (Read the review on my Book List)
- Free download ~ scroll to the link at the bottom of the page
Theme of the Day
How we fit the Charlotte Mason “extra’s” in to our week ~
- Free download ~ Theme of the Day 2014
- Free download ~ Theme for the Day 2012
Monday ~ Main Core = Social Studies’ research, reading, project or lapbook
Tuesday ~ Timeline & Science = timeline/ Book of Centuries and a Science lesson, notebooking, research, projects or science experiments
Wednesday ~ Wonderful World = Geography study/map work & Nature Study activity
Thursday ~ Tea & Poetry & Shakespeare = we simply read, listen & enjoy
Friday ~Fine Arts = Famous Composer & Famous Artist ~ appreciation lesson, art activity or Sketch Tuesday while we listen to the musician.
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.
- Free downloads: Blank Year Planner.pdf or Blank Year Planner.doc
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!
- Free downloads: Blank 36 Week Planner.pdf or Blank 36 Week Planner.doc
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.)
- Free downloads: Weekly Record of Work.pdf or Weekly Record of Work.doc
Daily Timetable
I place a Daily Timetable in each girl’s file and/or on my notice board for reference.
- Free download: Week Timetable or Week Timetable.doc
Conclusions Closure & Congratulations ~ Read how we Review, File, Evaluate and Celebrate at the end of the year.
Our fresh schoolroom for teens and high schoolers
Organizing Art Supplies
Organizing Puzzles and Patterns ~ Practical tips on how to organize your children’s educational games, puzzles and even your dressmaking patterns!
I hope these pages give you some inspiration and practical ideas. Feel free to download and change anything or tweak them so that they will work for you.
Blessings, Nadene
January feeling – planning and preparing – so grateful to find these gems again – like a lighthouse in a stormy sea right now! Thank you for sharing these gifts:)
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Oh, @Wild Way of Wonder, I am delighted to help … and thrilled to find your gem of a blog! You have a wonderful gift of writing!
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thanks
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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!
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@Stephanie, I put links to all these pictures and other inspirational or Scripture posts on Bible Pages.
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These lesson plans are really cool. I love them. Thank you for sharing them with us. 🙂
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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.
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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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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!
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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.
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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! 🙂
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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!
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Thanks for the great ideas, but none of the links seem to work at the moment. 😦
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Nadene,
There seems to be some links not working, can you have a look at them please.
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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!
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