Homeschool Planner: I made my own
Here's the front cover! LOVE it! I want to eventually put a picture of the kids below the letters, I just haven't found "the one" yet. I will though. The front has a clear sleeve on it, so it will just slide in there nicely. I had it bound at Staples. Cheap!!! I couldn't believe it. I think it cost me $3.00.
Here's a close-up of my cover. Proverbs 31 is my mantra in life. I want to show the kids how to be a mom and wife for Christ. I read it often. Very, very often.
I went through figuring out how to print off labels for my tags and I am SOOOO glad I did. Now I have cute font on there!
LOVE these planner pages I found at Artsy, Fartsy Mama! She even has different color schemes to use!
Up until now I have always printed off my chore charts on a weekly basis. I use Motivated Mom's lists and I HIGHLY recommend them! I am such a chart and checker girl. I get joy from the satisfaction of checking off my to-do's and feeling like I am actually getting stuff done. So I printed off my sheets so I no longer have to remember to print them off!
I slipped this sheet of tabs onto one of the tabbed dividers. Now I can slip them on to something I need to remember...so handy!
A few months ago I sprained ankle and after weeks of not being able to find EXACTLY what I wanted for my lesson plans, I made it myself. I was couch-ridden and used the old ruler and pencil method to hack out what I wanted. Sometime I'll try to enhance it so you can see what all I included. Above is my first week of school...look at how planned it is.
And then we skip to week 5...nary a lesson has been planned. Eek. I know it seems lame-o but I can't plan too far ahead lest Emma gets behind and then I am in hot water with the planning ahead.
This section makes me the most excited...eek! It's all together in all of it's glory. The days of planning on the back of a starbucks napkin are over.
Here's what I like to see the most...being organized, I have been recording what I have been buying and need to send, wrap, etc. I like being able to write "done" next to what I have already accomplished this early in the year.
I know it's dumb but I like to make goofy names for my sheets and lists. That way when I am on the phone, stressed out and trying to find where the dumb post office lost all of my gifts, I can smile when I am writing on my "odd-ball" Christmas list.
It's the little things. Am I wrong?
I absolutely could not have done this without this website. She explained how to arrange your pages and had oodles and oodles of templates to use. Love this lady and I don't even know her!
Do you make your own planner too? Do you have any other ideas? I'd love to hear them!