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Jordan—thank you so much for the offer. I even purchased a month thinking it would give me a little “pressure” to do it! I’m hopelessly a paper person I think! I’ll think about your offer though. 🙂
Jenni—the name of the rod and staff planner is the Weekly Planner(the smaller cheaper of the two). My kids are 11th, 9th, 6th, and 5th. They’ve been doing their own for maybe three years so my youngest daughter was in 2nd. I’d say if your daughter can write, it should be fine. You can always help her.
Actually, if you ask each resource to “show upcoming assignments” it will show you 5 days of assignments.
That means you can already print a weeks worth of assignments once a week if you will take the time to click your tabs.
It won’t give you a finished box to mark for each assignment, but you certainly could have your child write a “W” for worked on, and “F” for finished before/after each assigment.
Using that, you can then enter it all into the computer at once, still making progress and maintaining the correct place in your CMO records.
This would also work for older kids getting a list of assignments and letting them learn to budget their time and choosing their own schedule. I have been working with my oldest to let her start being more independent – this might just be the way for this particular dd. Hmmm….. =)
I am using several forms from this free homeschool planner: http://www.newbeehomeschooler.com/freecurriculumplanner.htm
I mainly use the daily one page (option 1 of step 4, 180 days form) for my three younger students because it has a clear division between independent and together subjects on one page. It is simple, but I plan ahead using post-it notes for weekly goals and just fill in as we complete things. My older ones independently use a daily page I made for them to record subjects after they complete them…using post-its also for weekly goals.
We started having paper planner success when we switched over to using daily pages instead of weekly pages (we make notebooks using the proclick punch and spines).
I love paper planners and I have found that I am kind picky
. I don’t like a bunch of forms I’m not going to use in there, and I don’t care for the regular “subject boxes and days” style because I don’t school that way. So, I’ve always made my own in a word document and I tweak it as necessary.Currently I have my week spread out on a double-page spread (in a binder, but could spiral bind too). The left page has subject boxes like a grid into which I plan ahead of time what we’re going to do that week: History – read bio of so and so, Science – chapter 3, etc. If there is a book that works for multiple subjects, I write it into one box and draw arrows to the other boxes. I am not ruled by the subject areas (because life doesn’t break down into neat subjects all the time), but it helps me to see if we haven’t done anything in a certain subject area for awhile. There are no days attached to this at all – this is a weekly glance.
I also have big boxes for each kid on that page – things I want them to do that week: read a certain book, copy a certain passage, etc. They each have a homemade planner into which they copy stuff down and then work through.
The right page has day boxes which I leave unfilled until we get to that week. Then I write down what we did on those days as a journal idea (or sometimes I plan ahead if I know that I want to do a certain thing on a specific day).
Okay – that probably confused you all…sorry!
I’m a simple paper planner….though I hear so much about the CMO I may need to get that for high school:) I plan out some simple Word documents at the beginning of the year and then I don’t do much else, just little tweaks as we go if something isn’t working. I use the SCM handbooks, so history/geo/Bible are planned for me and I just have to do the next lesson. Many or our subject are ‘do the next thing’ which is very simplifying. I make a one page schedule for myself for family subjects that lookssomething like:
Gina/Term 1
SCM Guide M T W R F
Memory Work M T W R
Poetry Anthology/Brothers and Sisters Best Friends M
Fallacy Detective/Composer(Bach) T
Roots Up/Picture Study(Turner) W
Etc.
Then Term 2 will be pretty much the same, but have a differnt composer/artist. I print all terms and print before the start of the school year.
The kids each have a binder w/their schedule in a page protector. My 7th graders will be something like:
Devotion M T W R F
Math(2 pages or test) M T W R F
Spelling Wisdom M W
Science(Apologia schedule) M T W R F
Writing M T W R
Written Narration(history or science) F
Etc.
My 4th grader will have a schedule like this next year, but this year I just typed out a sheet for each day listing each thing to do and he uses a dry erase marker to check off when done. My 7th grader just puts a slash through each day when completed, and can see a week at a glance and work ahead if she wants an easier Friday, etc. I don’t check off mine…just glance at it each day for reference.
For independent literature, I just put a list of books to read in their binder and they pull the next one when finished with a current one. For independent history, I just write on their schedule ‘as mom assigns.’ When the SCM schedule has a book come up for them to read independently, I have them start that day or so and read a few times a week until completed.
That probably sounds complicated, but it’s really quite simple and doesn’t take long at all to plan and I don’t have to do much planning at all once the year starts! HTH some:) Gina
I love the Well Planned Day! The price can be hard to swallow at $25 but I’m visual and LOVE the colors and designs. I feel peaceful when I look at it plus it is fun. Plus, it gives me plenty of room to write out assignments, field trips, goals, budget stuff, meals, etc. Oh, and it is year round.
I think you have to know how you typically work – any new planner is not going to change you, so use what suits your style. I’m not a natural planner / paper planner. So investing in a paper planner did not change me – it was a waste of my money. Making my own was a waste of my time – I just ended up having lots of empty forms and drowning under the burden of too much paper and falling behind. The CMO is a lifesafer for me – it’s so easy, and if I get a bit behind, so easy just to update in a few clicks. I must add the combination of the CMO, plus the book “Managers of Their Homes” from Titus2.com (which helped me make a realistic daily schedule), is my winning combination. Thank you SCM for the CMO – it saves me so much time and stress.
Well said, Inky. There are a variety of planners available because of the variety of personalities in this world. These are all tools, not masters, and you need to use the tool that works best for you and your household.
I know this is an old thread – iDisk was replaced with iCloud, so the link provided by Deanna for the ImageBearer planner no longer works. I’m wondering if she would be willing to post the file again so we can access her fabulous planner? Or if someone else has a link and can share? Thank you!
Deanna, I know this thread is years old, but I wonder if there’s still a way to download the planner? I would love to know!
Hi everyone!
I just wanted you ladies know that ‘The Image Bearer’ has actually been updated and revised, and is available at Image Bearer Designs. We have organized everything into a new, customizable format with an intuitive and revamped digital interface.
Let me know if you have any questions about the new update, and please feel free to share this news with anyone you feel this tool would benefit.
– Shawn
Image Bearer Designs
. I don’t like a bunch of forms I’m not going to use in there, and I don’t care for the regular “subject boxes and days” style because I don’t school that way. So, I’ve always made my own in a word document and I tweak it as necessary.
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