Homeschool Planner
At donnayoung.org you can print and assemble a Free Homeschool Planner. There are several planner form styles to choose from and most of the files are available in pdf and doc.
If you have never made a homeschool planner before, I have written a Planner Guide that might help you get started.
The Planner Forms are in these sections:
- Lists - various types of forms for lists
- Administrative - for adminstrative duties such as grades, calendars, attendance, course of study, transcript
- Lesson Plan Forms - where the actual forms for lessons are found
- High School - this section is odd, there is both help and forms here
- Extra - notebooking forms, cover sheets, grids, and outside activities forms
- Sets - matching sets and downloads
If you have comments or questions about the homeschool planner sections, please post them here.
Dr. Wile has published a 2nd edition of his general science curriculum. This is to announce that I've made a schedule planner for this book. It is linked below.
Donna,
I want to thank you for your wonderful website. Your forms have all been tremendously helpful to me, made me think of many things I would never have thought of! I was really pleased to find your 6x5 grids, which I wanted to use one daily for a six week block to target some of my son’s speech sounds that need correcting (I’m a speech therapist as well as homeschooling…). But I discovered it is actually 5x5. Still, very helpful, but six weeks worth of grids would have been great. Thanks!
Marcia, thank you for letting me know about the 6x5 grid. I will fix that right away.
It is fixed:
http://donnayoung.org/forms/planners/grids.htm
Hi Donna,
I downloaded your Grades and Attendance yesterday. I LOVE it.
I just wanted to let you know that it works almost seamlessly in “Numbers” which is the Mac version of Excel. It looks a bit different (tabs run down the left side rather than across the bottom), but I can label each table with the subject name which makes entering grades a snap! The only adjustment I had to make was to highlight the entire area where the daily grades and tests are entered and change the format to fraction (otherwise, it thought I was entering a date). With that one small change, the formulas that you have entered work perfectly!
Thank you so much for such a wonderful program!!!
~Michelle
Michelle, thank you for telling me how Grades and Attendance works with Numbers. I’m going to link your comment on the G&A web page so others who use Numbers can read what you did to make it work.
Donna
I need an attendance and grade form with 15 subjects. Do you have one or can you tell me how to add 3 subjects to your 12 subject one.
Thanks
Sharon
Sharon, I have one that has 16 subjects. It is on the drawing board to be made into a single subject co-op grader of sorts, but currently it is still in the typical one-child grader format. You can download it here:
ZIP file of 16 subject grader
Donna
Thanks so much This will work GREAT!
Sharon
I just wanted to say thank you. I’ve used your site, off and on for five years now. When I took a turn from unschooling to more formal stuff with my daughter last year it was your site that helped me make the transition and your forms that provided the backbone of my organization. You’re one heck of a woman to do this for all of us out here in the homeschooling world. Thank you!
This is my first year homeschooling and I was very thankful when God led me to your web site. Thank you, you are a true blessing!
Donna,
I am using the 6-week weekly journal and I always have problems seeing all the type that I type into the boxes for each day. The first word is slightly indented, but the rest of the type is clipped off. I have tried to “outsmart” the Excel program by changing the wrapping, but that doesn’t work either. I am using a Mac, so my Office 2004 is the Mac edition…is that the problem?
Other than that, I love having the schedule printed out for myself and my son each week. It just looks “off.”
Marty, you could be right about the problem. I have no way to check that since I do not have the same computer set.
Is there a way to manually force a line break in your Mac office 04 Excel program?
In the windows excel program, a manual line break can be forced by holding down the ALT key and pressing ENTER.