Planning a school year can be quite challenging. Being a person who loves organization and one who needs things written down, I find that having a paper planner is what I need.  Every year I strive to find one that will work great and leave nothing to be desired.  What I usually end up with is a half used planner!  One year I won one in a giveaway, I was so excited about it!  But I really didn't use it, I found it hard to navigate and it just did not have everything I wanted all in one place.  So the following year I decided to just create my own.  That was the best planner I have used!

Once again this year I decided to try and find one that would work for all of my kids and that would have everything in one place.  I looked at wonderful planners that seemed great in theory, but I know myself and I know that I wouldn't use it to its full potential.  I looked at Donna Young's site and she has an amazing amount of items for free.  But in the end I just didn't find one that I liked and would work for all three of my kids.

My criteria in a planner includes: space for planning for all three kids, space to plan for our together subjects, a yearly plan, monthly calendars, field trip logs, a place to record all of the books we read together, and it needs to look pretty!   Once I realized I wasn't going to find exactly what I wanted, I decided to get a little creative and play around a bit.  I came up with one that I think will work wonderfully for my family this upcoming school year.

This is how I plan to use the planner, first I will print out the following pages:  cover page, all of the calendar pages (doing front and back), course of study (one per child),  the planning pages to go in a two page spread (once again front and back), field trip log, book log, and the year in review.  Once that is done I will 3 hold punch them and place them in a 1/2 inch 3 ring binder.  I like to use the small binder because it's easier to handle.  I put the cover page inside the clear plastic insert on the front and ta-da a pretty planner all set to be filled up with great things this coming school year!

This is my first time sharing a free printable!  I have spent a lot of time creating a planner that I think will work well for my family and I thought I would share what I have come up with you!  Please feel free to share with your friends, but make sure to send them back to my blog to get their own!  Thanks so much!


The 2015 Homeschool planner includes:

• 2 Different Cover Pages
• 2 page spread planning pages for either 3 children with a spot to plan for together subjects or you can use it for 4 children 
• Year In Review
• Book Log
• Field Trip Log
• Calendar with months August 2015 thru July 2016 
• Course of Study 

  

Download the 2015 Homeschool Planner Here