School Planning

This is my week for school planning. If cleared my schedule during the day and have (almost) nothing else to do but get the majority of the school planning done for our school year that will start July 22. It's overwhelming even though this will be our seventh year of home schooling.

I just wanted to share some resources I'm using this year. I've got a new homeschool planner from Mardel and I'm super excited to use it. It has more school planning pages than the Well Planned Day that I used in the past. Plus it's much cheaper. For my non-school everyday planning I use a family calendar hanging on the frig and I use The Catholic Daily Planner. I need list and I use this planner to plan out our daily activities. I don't use it for any school planning besides writing "school day" on days we have school.  I need a physical book otherwise I ignore things;our life style doesn't require electronics to manage our time, at least not in this stage of our life. I bought each boy Crusaders for Christ planner from All The Saints. Last year they offered these as a free download and I enjoyed using them when I remembered to download and print them off. I don't mind paying for them already printed and bound together (they are in color and very pretty manly. I will write in the boys daily independent work so that they know what they need to get done while working alone. Last year we used the free download, scrap paper, another planner, or the dry-erase board. It wasn't organized and that makes our day harder so I'm looking forward to the boys being organized better during our school day.

I do our everyday lesson planning on paper in the homeschool planner. I do type up a full year of lesson plans on the computer and use those sheets to plug into the homeschool planner. Using the computer for this stage works best for me. I refuse to do all my planning on the computer simply because I hate being on the computer all the time and it doesn't save me any time (trust me I've timed myself). I prefer to have paper and pencil in my hand. It just works for me!  : )

I still have a lot more planning to get done, so I'm off to get back to work. I'll post our plans for the school year in the near future.

Tell me about how you plan your homeschool! What are your favorite resources?