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Planners are hard! I’ve been through so many. I think at this point I’ve thrown away just as many as I’ve actually used all the way through!
I am a planner person. Or at least I want to be 🥴 but when they don’t meet my needs, I lose interest and just stop using them.
I found A Simple Plan Homeschool Planner at Mardel. I LOVE Mardel and am blessed to have one a couple hours away! I try to source asany homeschool supplies from them as I can. I even was able to snag these awesome baskets to help organize a very large cabinet in the camper! *none of the Mardel links are affiliate! I just love their stuff 💕
Last year, I used the dated planner. It was beautiful! It had earthy/deserty tones and just everything I wanted to look at.
This year, I went with the undated version. We’re homeschoolers, we don’t always keep a strict schedule, so it’s nice to be able write in our dates.
This planner has everything homeschool families need! I am so impressed with how well organized it is. It has spots to keep track of multiple students’ schedules, places for lists of supplies needed, even a place to track the costs of curricula and such! When I say it has everything, I mean it.
Each month starts with beautiful scripture, a prep page for the month, and then a full monthly calender.
Next, it has weekly homeschool scheduling. It is set up for a 5 day week, and each day has 6 subject places.
I organize our subjects by: Morning Basket, Reading/Language Arts, Math, History, Science, and Extras. Our morning basket isn’t really the traditional “basket” that homeschool moms have been posting about recently. It’s more just our family time. We have family prayer time, a devotion, and then we will be doing a family study on The Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The study is from Home and Haven and is from their Fall Bundle volume 3.
I like to color coordinate our days. Each kid gets their own color and then everything we do as a family gets another color. It seems small, but I let the kids pick their own color and it’s always a fun thing for then and gives them a bit of ownership in their work each day.
Now, one thing this planner does not have is weekend days. Every now and then I do wish it had weekends on them, because we do some activities I consider school. I just write them in the notes section on the side. This really is strictly a planner for just school. It works perfectly for us.
They do also have student planners. My kids aren’t quite old enough to utilize them, but I am looking forward to when they are.
If you like this planner and would like to purchase, I would be awesome if you used my Amazon link! Best Homeschool Planner! I do receive a kick back from it. However, if you would rather purchase through Mardel, that’s okay, too! Either way, I just wanted to tell everyone about this planner. It really is the best one out there for homeschool families!
Middle Creek Mama 