How My Homeschool Planner Changed
My planner changed with certain phases during our homeschooling years. Those phases were:
The young children phase where my children were both young enough to share some subjects. I used a classic two-page spread and it was perfect. I split the cells with a pencil line when I needed to split them for lesson plans and if you look at the image on this page, you can see that at: Scan of Donna's Old Planner
The children no longer officially shared a subject and that resulted in dropping the two page weekly planner, which, in my option is a really nice planner because there is so much room for plans and for white-out. I started using weekly planners.
After a couple of years of using weekly planners, I decided that I found individual weekly planners a hassle (and I didn't have to show my lesson plans to any official entity anyway) and that resulted in the invention of the quarterly planner, aka subject/term planner.
My children became older and from using the subject planner grew the opportunity for personal responsibility and organizational skills for my children and the checklist became their favorite planner form.
My children became even older and that resulted in them having subject planners of their own either placed or glued into their books or/and they had their own school planner. There were a few high school years in which I didn't have a big planner full of papers, I just had the subject plan masters, a school calendar, and a general outline of the day. During high school years, I used G&A, an xls file which I made for myself to record grades and attendance.
