Homeschool Lesson Plan Forms

About Homeschool Lesson Plan Forms

This is where to find the lesson planning forms. The 3rd row of the menu contains links to the different types of forms. There are actually only 4 basic types:

1. Weekly (plan a week's work of lesson plans for all subjects )
2. Term & Subject (plan by subject instead of by week)
3. Journal (basically ruled paper)
4. Unit Study

For ultimate control of how your lesson plan forms look and if you have software that supports the file types, use the doc or xls formats.

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A basic homeschool planner should/could have these forms:

Title Page: I do not have any planner title pages here, I suggest that you open up a word processor and make one. The title page is helpful for having a record of the year and who the planner is for. The image on the left is just an example of what a title page can look like. I made it in just about one minute.. very easy to make. This one has the school name, an image, the student's name, the term (year), the level of instruction (grade), and the instructor's name.

School Calendar (print on a fresh sheet of paper) There are several calendar styles and you can choose from the starting months of January, June, July, August, or September.

Events Calendar Optional: These undated calendars are a two page spread, print the first page behind the calendar. They are used as a single place to record events such as field trips, music lessons.. etc. There are two styles.

Attendance Form: Optional: Print one if you need or want to keep track of days.

Course of Study This is a list of subjects and books that one child is studying.

Goals Optional: This sometimes is a confusing item, leave it out if you wish. However, it is helpful to force yourself to make goals and to have a written record of your goals. The goal forms can be used for either short term or long term goals.

Grade Form Optional: I have two grade forms to choose from. I also have Excel grade books, but these can't be put into a planner.

Book List Forms: There is a need for several types of book forms. Homeschoolers need: Library Book forms to keep track of checked out and returned books, Reading Logs to keep track of books that have been read, Book List to keep track of books you are planning to read, Home Library List to keep track of the books you own, borrowed or/and loaned book lists for those own borrow or loan books to and from friends. A curriculum book list to have a record of that.. I 'key' my books for ease in planning. Hmm... I'm sure I am forgetting something..

Ruled Paper or Journals The amount of ruled paper that you print is up to you. The ruled paper can be used for anything. Some homeschool moms print ruled paper behind every weekly planner sheet to make notes of the week. You can stop here and journal the homeschooling year or if you wish to make plans, continue below...

Lesson Planners Choose the type of planner that you like best or make your own with a word processor.

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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Phil 4:13

Tip: If you want your planner to be pretty then use store-bought or home-printed pretty paper.
Tip: Consider color-coding for each child.

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Printables:
This is the place where you can find all of the homeschool planner printables. All of my printables were made with some sort of software on my computer by me. It usually takes at least two different software products to make these printables, sometimes it takes four software products. All of my works are copyright although I don't make a big deal about that on the printable itself. I usually just put this web site's address on the printable in tiny gray letters so you will know where to get more printables.

Navigation:
Everything is different (gee thanks, Donna) but I hope the navigation is improved.

I'm Lost:
If you need help instead of forms, back up and go to Homeschool Help. If you need household forms instead of homeschool forms, go to Household. If you need calendars instead of planners, go to Calendars. If you are looking for subject related material, browse the subjects in the menu at the top of the page. Anytime you need to return to the very beginning, go to DonnaYoung.org. If all else fails contact me via the feedback form.

System Requirements:
Most of the planners require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and print. The rest of the planners are best opened with Microsoft Word. The Excel files require that Microsoft Excel be on your computer.

Copyright and Usage: You may use my work for your personal use. If you are a teacher, you may use my work for your students. Do not print or distribute my work to others. Share the link to my website instead. Files that are editable, such as the word files, may be downloaded to your computer to be customized for your personal use.
As of this writing I have no plans to remove my website for many years so please do not waste my bandwidth by downloading my entire site. If you are that desperate, buy my YoungMinds CD-Rom, it has a lot more files than this one does!
All of my files, forms, and web pages are the intellectual property of Donna Young. Uploading any parts of this website to any other server is forbidden.