![]() On the inside of the cover, I printed out and glued on a basic at a glance style school year calendar and also used the same (although much smaller) marquee for a name plate. Found a template for a marquee shape and using MS Word, that template, and my extra purple sheet I created a design for the front cover. I trimmed the rainbow sheet and glued it to the red card stock. I also grabbed some extra purple (my favorite) for some decorating. I bought the scrapbook page, and also sheets of solid colored 8.5×11 card stock following the ROYGBV color pattern. Instead I found a “normal” type scrapbook paper with fun rainbow style diagonal lines. I hoped to find a nice card stock scrapbook page for the cover, but nothing caught my eye. ![]() Off I went to the craft store next, on the hunt for “pretties”. In the end I had six sections that would need to be divided out. Next I needed to figure out what the rest of my planner needed. As I flip through my book first I see the weeks day planner (our normal family planer), then when you turn the page it’s the weekly homeschool planner. The nice guy there helped me figure out the self-serve copy machine and I made back to back copies of what I needed. I figured out I’d need 33 sets of school planning pages and 19 sets with no school planning pages. Then I subtracted that figure from the number of weeks in a year. I figured out how many weeks of active school we have, and thusly how many homeschool planning weeks I needed. I printed one set of each download and did some tallying. Extra bonus here, the download documents are totally customizable, and she shows you how she put hers together.ĭownloads in hand (or on disk) I spent some time customizing the planner sheets to include what I wanted. ![]() Something with a full week, space broken down for scheduling during the day, a to-do list area, and a place for small notes (like what Inara’s AWANA verse that week is or something similar)Įnter Miss Allison’s Art, and her homemade planner. I love that her pages have a system that easily translates into planning out Inara’s workboxes, as well as divisions in the actual subject areas for two part lessons. In the end I found two things that really helped – extra bonus they had free downloads too.įirst I found Mama Jenn and her Homeschool Planning Pages. I started going back through my Pinterest boards, looking for stuff I’d pinned when planning my Life Management Binder, also looking for homeschool planner stuff. So then I came to the conclusion, if thats what I wanted, I’d have to make it… Extra awesome bonus if it looked pretty, and free cookies to all if it also included areas for my cleaning lists, notes, birthday lists and other stuff. I wanted something that would combine my daily calendar and my lesson plans. I forced to conclude that what I wanted doesn’t actually seem to exist anywhere. DUH! This was a teachers planner, not a life planner that included teacher stuff. ![]() When it arrived, I opened it up, and it dawned on me – it didn’t have a “normal” calendar area. I needed a place for school stuff! I did more research and actually bought a copy of The Well Planned Day, a homeschool specific planner. Somewhere in there I also realized that what I needed was a school planner, not a life planner. I’ve said before I love the look of Erin Condren Life Planners – but man, the price tag – and it still wasn’t customized really. So, I wanted to combine the two… I started shopping. I ended up creating a separate three-ring binder for my lesson plans, and by the end of the school year last year found myself totally disorganized regarding school related items. Here’s the problem I faced, as a homeschool mom, I had no where to plan lessons, keep track of school related to-dos, projects shopping lists, or anything like that. I still really like the binder I made, the system worked great for me, and I LOVED the size – especially when it came to stashing it in my purse. Well, it seems like just yesterday I was posting the last installment of my Life Management Binder, when in reality it was over eight months ago.Īnd here I find myself at a juxtaposition.
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