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Summer has arrived in our homeschool, but that doesn’t mean that I have downtime. Now is the time to start going through the curriculum and creating a schedule, mark experiments, plan field trips, etc. This is when the Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017, from The Old Schoolhouse comes in handy.
The Hey Mama! Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017 is a spiral bound soft cover planner that offers so much more than a calendar. This planner is filled with tips, devotions and tools that will help your school year and life run more smoothly.
So what makes this planner so unique? First off, this calendar has basically everything I need to keep our school year organized, along with a lot of little extras like the motivational reminder pictured below.
In the Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017, you’ll find the following:
• 2016-2018 “at-a-glance” Calendars
• Monthly Calendar (July 2016-June 2017)
• Monthly Notes Section
• Weekly Undated/Unlabeled Calendar
• Monthly,Semester, & Yearly Goals Sheets
• Attendance Charts
• Books Read This Year Sheets
• Curriculum Planning Sheets
• Homeschooling Contact List
In addition to all the awesomeness above, you’ll find that this planner is also packed full of the following inspirational and helpful pages:
• Hey Mama! Notes
• 36 General Writing Prompts
• Story Starters
• The Thirteen Colonies by Date
• Timeline of Inventions
• U.S. Presidents & Their Wives
• Branches of Federal, State, & Local Governments
• United States & Capitals
• Creating an Academic Transcript
• Academic Transcript
• Checklist and Skills Learned
• Other Courses
How we use this type of planner:
Since we homeschool year round, I set down and look over the “at-a-glance” calendar. This is when I start highlighting our days off, already planned field trips and things of that nature. Once I’ve highlighted our days/weeks off, I then venture into the general calendar area. This is where the real planning begins, and I have learned from past experience to pencil it in. Life happens and plans change, and a pencil is much more forgiving.
Another important part of this planner for me is the Curriculum Planning Sheets. With homeschooling two, it’s easy for past curriculum to get shuffled in the homeschool piles and forgotten. I like having the ability to pull my lists to see what we used in past years. This way I can reevaluate if it would work for my upcoming student, or if it’s something that wasn’t right for us. This is also a great way to plan your budget. Once again, I always start out with penciling it in for the year. I use it as my wish list per say. Once curriculum arrives, I go back with a pen and make it permanent.
In North Carolina, we are required to keep track of our school attendance. With that being said, I really like that the attendance sheets are included in this planner. Since the planner is going to be with us at the start of every day, it’s easy just to flip back to attendance and check it off.
Overall Thoughts:
I have been very impressed with everything this planner brings to the table, and I would purchase it. It offers almost everything I need when it comes to organizing the school year. While it’s absolutely perfect the way it is, there is one thing I would change. Since we are a year round homeschooling family, it would be nice to have more than 36 weeks in the blank/unlabeled calendar part.
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