Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner "S" Sheets Marking Column A

S-Sheet Column A

Latest version - V Planner V2.5-DT

Number System

Marking Lesson Plans for the Planners

S-Sheet Column A Once you have entered lesson plans in the S-Sheets in column C, then those lesson plans can be sent to the planners. You are the boss when it comes to deciding what lesson plans appear on the planners. With the V Planner, you will not have to retype or white-out plans because someone was sick or something came up that caused a class to be canceled.

Sometimes I will call the "numbered" lesson plans active or current. If you look in the image on the left, you will see that some of the lesson plans have a white background. Those plans with the white background are the "active" lesson plans - Active means that the lesson plans are being picked up by all of the student's lesson planners. They are the current lesson plans (active). They have a number next to them. After completing the lesson plans, come back to the s-sheet either each day or at the end of the planner "week" and marked the finished lessons with a "Y" and if there is a grade associated with the class, enter it into the grading columns.

Y = Yes
N = No or Skip or Later
1 = slot 1 in a planner
2 = slot 2 in a planner
3 = slot 3 in a planner
4 = slot 4 in a planner
5 = slot 5 in a planner

Where and How to Number the Lesson Plans to Make them Active

Beginning with Row 6 in Column A you will find a drop-down in every row down to Row 226. In the drop-down list you will find these numbers and letters: Y N 1 2 3 4 5. The letters and numbers in the drop-down are used to mark lessons. Lesson Plans are made "active" by placing a number next to them.

a Rule: If you have done this before -- meaning if there are lesson plans with numbers next to them, be sure to remember to replace last week's numbers with either a Y or a N or nothing or another number between 1 and 5.

What the Letters Mean & The Effect of the Marks

Y means Yes, this lesson is completed. Marking a lesson with "Y" causes the lesson and the teacher's note to change to a darker color.

N means No or any other sort of negative such as "We are skipping this lesson until later." or "We are not doing this lesson." Marking a lesson with "N" causes the lesson and teacher's note to "gray out."

What the Numbers Mean & The Effect of the Marks

Formatting
When a lesson has a number next to it, the background of the lesson and teacher's note becomes white. A white background on the S-Sheets in columns B and C means one of two things -
1. The lesson is "active" for this week's lessons OR
2. you've copied and pasted over the formatting and messed it up.
A working S-Sheet does not have a white background in columns B6+ and C6+ unless marked with a number.

slot one The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are in the drop-down lists. Each of the numbers reserve a slot in the lesson planners. Let's clarify - The numbers do not mean Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.

Number 1 reserves the first slot in any of the planners. Slot 1 is often thought of as Monday's place on a lesson planner. That should help you visualize what slot one is, however; in the V Planner, slot one is not associated with any date or day- it is simply, slot one.

Slot 2 is next to slot one. Think of Tuesday's spot on a lesson planner, but then forget the word "Tuesday" because like slot one, slot two is not associated with any date or day of the week - it is just the second slot for lesson plans.

The same applies to slots 3, 4, 5. They are slots on the planners. I've included screen-shots of two planner types - block and list (row). Look at the images and see where the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 send the lesson plans.

slots in list planner

In the list planners, DPList and DP-S-T, the lessons are presented in a list sorted by subject.

The red marks on the list planner pictured to the left are slot 1.

The green marks are slot 2.

The orange marks are slot 3.

The blue marks are slot 4.

The pink marks are slot 5.

Empty Slots = Spacing Lessons or Days off from School or From a Class

An empty slot is the same as skipping a lesson in any particular subject. Not every subject is done 5 days a week every week and sometimes we have a day off. To skip a lesson, don't add a number. Which number? Any number, just think- which slot should remain blank this week and if it is slot 4, don't enter the number 4 in column A.
Below are a couple of the images that I used to illustrate how to space lessons. Please notice how the numbers are placed in the screen-shot below - 1, 3, 5 with no skipped lessons - remember we are not skipping lessons, we are skipping days.