If you are looking for a place to keep track of school and home then you will want to check out the Schoolhouse Planner from The Old Schoolhouse. This is one of the most thorough organizational tools that I have seen offered for the homeschool family.
The planner is 375 pages offered in a pdf format for only $39.00. It is organized into 4 sections. The table of contents divides each section topically. The first section is divided into months of the year. Within each month is a topical study to do with your students. These studies include reading material and hands on activities and projects. A list of supplies is even provided. There are also recipes for each month. I love the recipes. They are simple and are made with down to earth ingredients.
The 2nd section is entitled Miscellaneous Educational Information. In this section, you will find the answers to common questions you and your children ask. There is a list of the US Presidents, kitchen conversion chart, periodic table and famous artists. In total there are 14 different resources to refer to in this area.
The 3rd section is entitled Home School Forms. Everything you need for your school year is in this one spot. There are planning forms, curriculum sheets, field trip logs, co-op registers, grade charts, attendance checklists and the list goes on. This section holds over 100 forms. The best part is they are all in one spot.
The final section is Household Forms. It contains over 50 resources. I think my favorite is going to be the two forms that refer to garden planning. On top of the resources offered are 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 calendars.
The planner is purchased through The Old Schoolhouse Store for $39.00. After purchase is complete you are able to immediately download the pdf. No waiting! My favorite part of this system is that I can print the pages that I know I will use. I personally went through all of the 375 pages and printed the ones that would be useful to me; three whole punched them and put them in a 3 ring binder. In the past when I purchased hard copy planners, there would always be pages that I would not use. The Old Schoolhouse Planner is something that I have been able to customize to fit my needs resulting in no unused pages.
My favorites from the planner are the month at a glance, recipes, grocery list page, monthly menu planner, and log pages for books, videos and scriptures memorized, attendance checklist and the gardening planning sheets. I believe that every homeschool family could find this offering from The Old Schoolhouse Store to be something that could suit their organizational needs. This is my first year using the planner but I can already tell I’m hooked.
If you would like to check it out for yourself go to:
The Schoolhouse Planner
The Schoolhouse Planner