Which planner do you use and why/how do you use it?

[mum21andtwins]

My eldest has annouced he wants more school and my disorganised brain panicked lol!
If you use a hs specifick planner which one do you use and why? if you put one together would you mind sharing?

I need to get my butt in gear and become more organised and any help would be much appreciated

[elizawill]

there are lot of good ones for free. you can check out: http://donnayoung.org/index.htm

there are also online ones for free:

http://www.homeschoolskedtrack.com/H...isplayLogin.do (this one seems to be very popular)

http://www.homeschooltracker.com/tracker_basic.aspx (basic is free)

http://www.home-school-inc.com/logon...2fDefault.aspx (free)

i personally prefer pen & paper over the internet for planning. i made my own up this year here:
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view...d=1353285&da=y

it's 2 pages divided by subject for my kids. the first part is for my kindergartener. the second part of page 1 is for my daughter. the 1st page are things we *usually* do daily. the 2nd page is subjects they usually learn together (well...ds is optional). & we don't do everything everyday. for example, we do art once a week, history 2x, science 2x , storytime with mommy is daily, poetry is 1x week, etc.

next school year, i'll make a new one (as things will look different from this). but i hope this gives you an idea.

hth.

[mum21andtwins]

Thanks!

I think thats the thing though there are soo many out there I got rather overwhelmed.

[Momma Aimee]

subbing to come back and check out the links, there was at least one i han't seen before

[*Jessica*]

I love Homeschool Skedtrack! I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to paperwork, so if I had to make any changes to my plans I would be writing everything out over and over again instead of erasing. And I don't print it out so I'm saving paper. (Though I may start printing them since I live in NY, which is a highly regulated state.) And I'm on the computer multiple times throughout the day anyway, so it's no trouble to log in and approve the things we've accomplished. It took a week or two of watching the video tutorials and playing around, but it has been highly worth the time.

[onyxravnos]

so far best i have found is a Student Planner that i got at office max. it is week by week with 5 subject spaces for each day. I fill in my 'subjects' and then each day write in the plan such as today I have the subject baking and then wrote muffins.

so far it is the best i have come up with and allows me something in my hand to remind me what the plan for the day is.

[dotnetdiva]

Homeschool Skedtrack is the perfect tool for me! We stay on track so much better than before I started using it. It is such an incentive to see where we'll be months from now, yet it is still so very flexible.

Ditto everything Jessica said about it.

[zjande]

I just use a teacher's weekly schedule book I picked up from the learning supply store. I fill the weekly chart in with our subjects- math, language arts, history/geography, reading, science, & misc. I pencil in our plans for the week.

Not very fancy.

[Ravin]

I use one I designed myself, so that it's tailored to the subjects we're doing and the lesson frequency. Sometimes I pencil things in ahead, sometimes as we do them.

[amis2girls]

http://www.wellplannedday.com/plannerswpd.html

[Smithie]

A question about Homeschool SKedrack, for those of you who love it - why are so few courses input by other moms available to load into your own plan? Am I doing something wrong there?

When I select the "Courses" tab and then the "Import" tab, and select "From World" to see every publicly available course that another parent has entered, I only get one page of courses. This is SO not all the courses that have been entered by people using the software. Is there a culture on the site where people don't usually share their courses?

The big thing I want from an online planner, beyond the bare minimum of automatically-updating schedules, is to be able to reap the fruits of other parents' data entry and have my own data entry benefit someone else. Approximate 3 bazillion parents must have already typed the SOTW chapters into a planner or spreadsheet somewhere...