Latest version - V Planner V.2
The content on this page will be repeated or will be similar to the content on Marking Column A.
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
Row 1 simply reads "Today."
Row 2 tells you the date, or rather, row 2 will display today's date.
Row 3 asks Done? - This is referring to the lesson plan - Are you finished with a lesson plan?
Row 4 has the letter Y. The letter Y stands for "yes, this lesson plan has been done."
You will do nothing at all with Rows 1-5 in column A. Your actions in Column A begin at Row 6.
Beginning with row 6 you will find a drop-down list in every row down to row 226. In the drop-down list you will find this:
The letters and numbers in the drop-down list are used to mark lessons.
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 background color. The darker background color exists so that you can quickly see which lessons have been completed.
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 background color of the lesson plan and the teacher's note to "gray out."
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 [this is good] OR
2. you've copied and pasted over the formatting and messed it up [this is bad].
A properly working S-Sheet does not have a white background in columns B and C unless there is a number in column A marking the rows.
To prevent overwriting the formatting in the V Planner, always choose "keep destination formatting" when copying and pasting.
The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are in the drop-down lists. Each of the numbers 1-5 reserves 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 where slot one is located on the planners, 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 typical location 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 on the lesson planners.
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.
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.
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. 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. I wrote about that at my blog at: Non-Linear Lesson Planner.
Below are a couple of the images that I used to illustrate how to space lessons.
The image below is from an S-Sheet. Numbers 1, 3, 5 are placed next to lesson plans. The result of this is : The 3 lessons will show on the planners and the lessons will appear in planner slots 1, 3, 5.
This image shows the results of using numbers 1, 3, 5 to show lesson plans. In the example image, the 3 lessons are shown on the lesson planners and fill planner slots 1, 3, 5.
See Also Marking Column A. The content on Marking Column A will be very much like the content on this page.
Donna Young
May, 2011
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The V-Planner is a spreadsheet file in xls format. To use the file, you must have a program on your computer [like MS Excel] that is compatible with XLS files. The V Planner is a homeschool planner and the file is currently only available on Donna Young's Site-CD, YoungMinds as of the 2011 version .
