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The Homeschool Planner
Curriculum, Schedule, and Sanity for Teaching Parents
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About this book
You are teaching your children at home, which means you are also the planner, record keeper and curriculum buyer. This planner gives you a place to keep track of it all, whatever approach or curriculum you use.
The weekly lesson planner lets you plan each subject for each child, with room for up to four children on one spread. A curriculum tracker shows which resources you use for each subject across the year, an attendance log records school days, and a field trip log notes where you went and how it connects to your lessons. A read-aloud and book log tracks what you read, and progress assessment pages give you simple report-card-style records for quarterly reviews.
Once a month, a review and sanity check asks what is working and whether you are okay. Filled-in samples show how each page looks.
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Introduction
You are doing something brave and slightly terrifying: you are educating your children yourself.
Maybe this is your first year and you are wondering what you have gotten yourself into. Maybe you have been at this for five years and you still wonder that. Either way, here is what I want you to know: you do not need a teaching degree to teach your kids well. You need a plan, some flexibility, and the occasional deep breath.
This planner is that plan.
What's Inside
This is not a rigid curriculum guide. It does not tell you what to teach or how to teach it. Whether you are following a classical curriculum, a Charlotte Mason approach, an eclectic mix-and-match, or something you are making up as you go – this planner gives you the structure to keep track of it all.
- Weekly Lesson Planner – Plan each subject for each child, every week. The layout supports up to four children on the same spread, because you are probably teaching multiple ages at once. (Bless you.)
- Curriculum Tracker – A year-at-a-glance view of which curriculum or resources you are using for each subject. Helpful for planning, helpful for compliance, helpful for remembering what you actually bought.
- Attendance Log – Many states require it. Even if yours does not, it is nice to have. Check the box, done.
- Field Trip Log – Where you went, what you learned, and how it connects to your curriculum. Field trips are school. This log proves it.
- Monthly Review – Step back once a month. What is working? What needs to change? Are you covering everything? Are YOU okay?
- Read-Aloud & Book Log – Track what you are reading together and independently. The list grows faster than you think.
- Progress Assessment Pages – Simple report-card-style pages for quarterly reviews. Useful for records, co-ops, and your own peace of mind.
How to Use This
At the start of each week, sit down for fifteen minutes (coffee required, silence optional) and fill in the weekly lesson plan. You do not need to plan the whole year – just the next five days. Adjust as you go. Some weeks will go exactly as planned. Some weeks you will throw the plan out and go to the museum instead. Both are fine.
At the end of each month, take your CEO-of-this-homeschool hat off for ten minutes and do the monthly review. Celebrate what went well. Let go of what did not.
You are your child's teacher, yes. But you are also their parent. Both matter. Take care of yourself in the process.
You have got this.
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