Paper planner that is CM style?

I honestly just made my own in Word.  I never really found anything done for me that was exactly what I needed.  I kind of took a few ideas from places like donnayoung.com and a few others I randomly found on blogs or wherever and just pieced it together into my own.  It even follows my daily schedule (Monday’s plan follows Monday’s schedule, Tuesday’s follows Tuesday’s, etc.).  I showed it to my co-op friends one day, and 1 mom emailed me asking for it.  😛

I also just do it simply in Word. My 7th grader has a list of her subjects in the left column w/how many pages or how long to read for, etc. Each subject is followed by M T W R F if it’s a daily subject, or just the days she’s required to do that subject. She likes this format so she can work ahead sometimes and check off more days and see her week at a glance.  She keeps it in a folder w/a page protector over it and just slahes the daily letter w/a dry erase marker.

My 4th grader works better w/5 sheets…one for each day of the week and it’s just a list of everything to do that day (also in page protector).

My list is like my daughter’s…a week at a glance w/our family subjects. So, for instance we do the SCM Module Handbook every day, so I’ll have that listed w/a M T W R F after it. We do memory work M T W R, composers W, etc. Hope that all makes sense, it’s really very simple and I don’t have to change our schedules very often once I come up w/it…..

@Dawn, I will PM you.

I have a weekly chart in the front of my binder. I took cues from the sample schedules on the SCM site. It’s not an exact copy of any of them, but looking at each, and taking our away from home activities into consideration, I came up with a workable routine. Sticking to it means accomplishing so much even though we try to stick to the CM style short lessons (with the exception of Bible…we spend the most time on Bible and history together.)

Mornings begin with Scripture memory, hymnology, and GOAL studies. This takes 30-45 minutes.   My chart says introduction on Monday and review T-F. 

Scripture verses are listed 11/term on three pages. Once memorized, I check them off. 

I only have a page with a list of hymns (1/month) for the year. Check off at the end of the month.

GOAL. 3 pages with 12 weeks each listing the book/chapter for each week and exam note to self on week 12, 24, and 36. 

Geography, Timeline, and Family History studies are next daily M-TH. The 3 pages for this have the headings pulled from the SCM guide for once a week. I only read about geography aloud on Mondays (guide lists it on Wednesdays) because I like to include a quick map study review daily during the week using our CC maps which ate kept in page protectors following the term lists. 

We use the Veritas Press timeline cards for review and short discussions. Our eldest daughter is keeping a permanent BOC based on these VP cards. 

We are following module 4 quite closely with a few substitutions/deletions based on what I had in our library, or could order for the year. So, my pages are just list of headings from the SCM & Famous Men’s guides. I also list the CC history sentences which I divided across three terms. Once memorized, I put a check by them and we review occasionally. The pages for the term include 4 headings from the guides for family studies. 

For French, I just follow the curriculum guide for lessons using Mission ABC. 

Poetry has sadly been neglected for the most part this year. We will begin again in March using Rod and Staff’s Poetry Practice every other week. We read poems from Favorite Poems Old and New as the mood strikes. 

Fine arts includes a T or TH time slot that’s short, but provides more fine arts study than most schools ever dream of including on a regular basis. One week gine arts lands on T, the next its on TH.  Only one lesson per week  I refer to Discovering Great Artists, Drawing Textbook, and Classical Music for Dummies and a list of six “Composer’s” studies (Gregorian Chant, Solfege, Dona Nobis Pacem, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, and Haydn.) ( I only created one list for the year with 36 lessons for the year.  I’m rotating it as follows:  GA, Draw, GA, Composer.) Again, just checked off when completed. 

Family Literature is where I keep the list of family read alouds that tie to the time period. I jotted a note of approximate week to begin each. Some are picture books, others literature in the 7-9 suggestions list. Check off when read. 

I only have our younger two dc’s science in the notebook (CC memory work for cycle 2 and a list  of experiments, 1 every third week. VanCleave’s 201 Awesome Experiments. 

Next is the list of assignments for our Writer’s Block Co-op which meets on Mondays. This is the only list in the notebook with specific dates to keep me on track. I teach the class, so it’s a good way to remind myself to study the lesson over the weekend. 

The back pocket of the binder is where I’m storing our 2 youngest DC’s plans through their “tentative” graduations. (2018 & 2024, eek!). I planned these out using the suggestions on the SCM YouTube videos and planning your CM education suggestions. This one page for each child is absolutely the most important step I’ve ever taken while Homeschooling. I did not do this with our older three DC. Now, I “see” where we are going and rarely, if ever feel the need to search and plan. When we are nearing the end if a particular subject/time period, all I have to do is gather the titles and I’m finished. I have second guessed what I’ll use for the most recent of modern times because there is such a lack in the most recent times, but God will work that out when we get there. Today has enough on the to do list. 🙂

Hth,

Becca<><