Daily Planner~08/30

Daily Planner~08/29

Special Edition~Making da butta!

Since my good friend Wendy, from Hillside Spanish Congregation, who also homeschools her two girls. Is also going through the Little House on the Prairie books with her girls. So we decided to get together and take the children on a field trip to Cowtown and make some butter before we left!

Weekend Edition~2016/2017 Planner

Front cover of my 7 Step Planner

I plan our days using Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus free 7 step planner. I did create some of my own pages, such as my 2 page spread for daily lesson plans that is mainly what you will be seeing in our day to day photos of our planning pages. Again though I used Kingsoft, any one who would like them, I will gladly send them to you. I also did make up a similar one page planning page for those with only one child. However, I will try to do them with a better program later as well. A side note to this, Tina is also a fellow sister.

I use what is commonly referred to as a loop scheduling system. So while some subjects are covered daily, others are in a loop, today I will do art, tomorrow I will do music, today we will make sure to do a Bible Lesson from the Brochure, and tomorrow we will do a lesson from the Listen to God Brochure. Today Lela may do a lesson from Emma Serl's Primary Language Lessons, and tomorrow could be a lesson from a McGuffey Reader. However, I do read daily to Belle and RJ from the My Book of Bible Stories, and I do daily Bible reading with Lela. Daily Text and our children's kingdom song every day. Much of the other material can change on a dime and is not required daily in my schedule, but more of we aim for the subject or text to be used at least weekly or more depending.

This year, there was a few pages I decided I didn't like where I placed them, and a few I put in backwards, and even two blank pages snuck in! lol So I will be taking notes this year, on getting those better next year. But, all in all I love my planner again this year!

I have a vlog posted that details my planner the best. But, if you don't want to go to youtube, below you can find photos of it.

My Planner Vlog

A photo by photo guide to my own planner. Again most pages came from Tina's Dynamic Homeschool plus. The cover is depicted above in the first photo.

Inside cover and attendance chart.

Turns out I like using the front of the planner for keeping attendance.

Three child two page lay out planning pages.
I printed enough for 140 days of in house schooling,
not including field trips and community service days.

Multiplication Chart and Library Resource form both from
Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus.

Library Resource from Tina's, and Reading Log I created.

Curriculum and Book Resource Lists I created.

Password Keeper from BailingTwineNest.blogspot.com
and Attendance Calendar

Fruitage of the Spirit Chart, and My Bible Lessons Schedule, that I put in
backwards!!! Careful mamas, recheck and recheck pages before binding! haha

Elementary Bible Reading Schedule

Last page of Elementary Bible Reading Schedule,
and Tina's Field Trip Ideas.

Field Trip Planning pages.
I printed enough pages for 2 field trips a month.

Field Trip Ideas and
Field Service or Community Service Tracking.
Remember Field Service IS community service!

Community Service Tracker-I printed one for each month,
and back inside cover.

Back Cover

Daily Planner~08/26

Daily Planner~08/25

We went to a different library today, went to Derby Library where the children played. We played a State scramble game, which I really really want to get. And then I checked out some more homeschooling books-Homeschooling from Scratch, and Ruth Beechick's Biblical Homeschooling, I figure I will use the parts that apply to me, and dismiss what doesn't. I also checked out Life of Fred-Dogs book and will see how we like it.

Daily Planner~08/24

We also went to the Library, the children check out books, while I did some reading in one of John Holt books, Learning All the Time.