My youngest has graduated, but when I consider how many years I’ve homeschooled, I realize it’s been the majority of my life. As a career homeschool teacher with five kids, I homeschooled nearly 25 years.
The career of a homeschool teacher is distinctly unique. From changing diapers and washing dishes to lesson planning for multiplication and photosynthesis, we moms juggle a lot. As with other careers, it’s critical to have the tools that ensure success, growth, and continuing education.
Career homeschool moms, myself included, use the Well Planned Day because it has the functionality to handle the wide spectrum of daily tasks, challenges us to achieve, and helps us learn how to better teach. Here are the top 10 features of Well Planned Day that make it the career homeschool mom’s number one planner pick:
All-In-One
Each month includes key planner areas that allow moms to successfully juggle the different departments they manage: teaching, parenting, cooking, cleaning, and even self-care.
Starting with the monthly calendar, moms can schedule activities and appointments. The weekly spread, the core of the Well Planned Day, has daily lesson planning, attendance, grading, mom’s to-do list, dinner menu, weekend plans, and self-care. Within these two pages, a career homeschool mom can plan for the entire day.
Teaching Multiple Kids
No need for multiple planners to assign lessons—the Well Planned Day has enough room to manage four students. It also incorporates the flexibility to use a grid section for individual students or the entire family. With a little creativity, I’ve seen moms alternate history and science, giving them more time to spend on the subject and using 2 days of worksheet areas to plan. Bonus: the extra space at the end of each day can be used for a fifth child who only needs to plan for math and phonics (preschool – 1st grade).
#1 Homeschool Planner
Original Homeschool Planner
Plan Up to 4 Students
$39.95
This 284 page, 12 month, fully dated (July 1st – June 30th) planner has everything you need to create a curriculum plan, develop benchmarks for each subject, and create daily lesson plans for up to four students.
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Attendance and Grades
Whether you live in a state that requires reporting or you understand that, by logging attendance and progress, you can use the data to evaluate your own efforts as a career homeschool teacher, the Well Planned Day has a simple and effective system. For attendance there is a daily checkbox which can be transferred to the semester attendance reports. For grading, by using the blocks in the weekly assignment area, you can record the average for the week in the semester grade log.
Homeschool Perks
Taking field trips, visiting the library, and reading aloud on the couch have to be some of the best perks for the career homeschool mom. In the Well Planned Day, there is ample space to plan for the field trips, schedule books for your students to read, manage the library books (save on those late fees), and chart your read-alouds. As a bonus, each month I include ideas for books and educational adventures based on the holiday for the month or the season of the year.
Report Cards
In some cities and towns, good grades on report cards can get your student ice cream, pizza, or a free game of bowling. For other families, it’s critical to show the in-laws the proof that schooling at home works. In either case, I’ve included four heavy stock paper and micro-perforated report cards in different designs! Easy to tear out and easy to fold so you can create a report card in style.
Home and School Schedules
Successfully reaching your goals begins with a schedule. In the Well Planned Day, there are teacher schedule and student schedules (4) to ensure you can create the routine rhythm in your home. Career homeschool moms use the schedule page to get a birds eye view of their week, ensuring they haven’t over-scheduled and helping them understand where they may have a few extra minutes. Included on the schedule are specific times for meals, cleaning, schooling, extra curricular, and community commitments.
Dinner Menu and Shopping
Some career moms use the monthly calendar to lay out the menu for the month, then transfer to the weekly layout and use the information to create shopping lists. Other moms, myself included, plan the menu by the week, often based on what’s on sale at the supermarket. With a plan in place, I use the perforated shopping lists to record what I need from the store. With a page of shopping lists each month, I’ve have enough lists to last the year.
Home Management
Beyond scheduling the daily tasks for cleaning, there are worksheets to create a daily cleaning system and space to log monthly project goals for things like spring cleaning and changing out the seasonal wardrobe. Within each month there are additional home management spaces to assign chores, detail home projects, and determine purchasing needs.
Holiday Organization
Between November and December, I’ve included six pages of holiday management. From menus and shopping lists to gift-giving ideas, to-do list, and a place to record traditions, there are pages to plan for everything the holidays bring, including greeting cards and decorating. By organizing your holidays in these pages, you are able to keep everything together and rest in the joy of the season.
Continuing Education
As a career homeschool mom, like many careers, continuing education is a must. As your children grow and teaching becomes more complicated, or as your home life grows in busyness and you need to stay on top of organization, access to additional resources from Well Planned Gal will help you continue learning how to better yourself as a career homeschool mom.
I’ve touched on ten areas of the Well Planned Day, but if you open the pages of the planner, you’ll find that I’ve added even more areas to ensure every aspect of your homeschooling journey has a place to plan. As you begin, return, or continue in your homeschooling career, you’ll discover, as other moms have found, that the Well Planned Day is a necessary tool for success.
#1 Homeschool Planner
Original Homeschool Planner
Plan Up to 4 Students
$39.95
This 284 page, 12 month, fully dated (July 1st – June 30th) planner has everything you need to create a curriculum plan, develop benchmarks for each subject, and create daily lesson plans for up to four students.
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Comments (54)
This looks amazing! Thank you!!
You’ve done a fantastic job with the layout! It really is a one stop shop for all of my organizing needs!
I agree, this looks amazing and I look forward to recommending it to my homeschool families!
This will be my first year up coming, to do
Homeschool with my 4th grader and preschooler. Thank you for this, super helpful! Can’t wait to try it all along with your products!
This looks so helpful! Thank you!
I can’t wait to try this! This planner looks amazing! Hopefully I can win one!
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Nice post, thanks!
This planner has it all!
This would help with our new homeschool journey.
I’m definitely an unorganized person and this would help tremendously as I take on that homeschooling life!
This is so awesome! Thank you!
This looks amazing! As a first time homeschooler I would love this!
As a mom of 8, homeschooling many different ages at once can be challenging. My best advice is to keep it simple. We do not have to do all the things in one day. Lead with grace, and make a plan!
Love this.
I am hesitant to jump in on a new planner but also my planner loving heart says do it anyways! This is my first year homeschooling.
I have homeschooling for a few years now but have just started needing to wite everything down. This seems absolutely lovely to help keep everything in one place from vacations to dinner plans to daily schedules. Thanks for all your hard work.
Wow! This planner seems to cover all the bases!
(Classically) raising two daughters, grades 3rd & 6th! Here we go!!
I came across your site and highly recommended planner today, excited to learn more!
Love all the features this planner offers
I’ve never been consistent enough to really get into a planner but my littles getting older and into more stuff I’m thinking it’s time…
These planners are soo pretty! Perfect for staying organized
I love these planners & look forward to using one this homeschooling year!
These planners really have everything you can think of in them!
This planner would replace my 3 planets and 5 notebooks I have that do a lot of this stuff. Would be so nice to just have 1
I’m excited for this!!
I absolutely love the report card idea. Every little helps when it comes to motivating through difficult seasons.
I really like that you can schedule basically your whole life in one place! What a great resource!
Honestly your planners and all that you offer have made me so excited for our first year of homeschooling after leaving traditional school. I also have 5 kids, between the ages of 9 years down to 9 months and so it’s been a little daunting switching over. But all the organizational planners and information you offer and share has made everything seem way less complicated or intimidating! Thank you!
First time homeschooler and this seems awesome! Looking forward to looking into it more!!
I love The Home and School section to help organize home life and school separately. As well as the Daily Menu section is a game changer!
Love the way you incorporate home and school in one place. Saying goodbye to multiple calendars/planners.
This is such a beautiful planner I love that it has a section for establishing family rhythms. That’s something we really need to work on this year to make better use of our time.
Would love to win this planner to help me stay organized this new school year. With a newborn, I’m going to need all the planning possible.
Hi..fellow mom with newborn. This is going to be a difficult year for us both…hopefully we survive.
Hi, I have a newborn too 3 weeks, hopefully we will survive.
Very interested to see how this could help organize the day to day. The colors and designs are absolutely stunning!
As I’ve only been homeschooling for about 7 months (we took June off) now I really haven’t planned anything. I found some books we have been working on and just do them. We incorporate “classes” from our library. As my child is going into 1st grade this fall my thinking will have to change cause I will have to start recording his achievements, and I have no idea how to do this.
This is a great planner! Love it!
I love these planners!
Love a good planner. Excited to try this for our first homeschool year!
I used a Well Planned planner when we first started homeschooling about 8 years ago. I then moved into others, which was my mistake. Well Planned planners are my favorite and work the best for our family.
Looks pretty neat!!
I have used the Well Planned Gal Planner for all four years we have been homeschooling and fully plan to use it in our 5th.
I’ve been homeschooling for 12 years and love it!
These planners look amazing and so helpful to organize our time!
You can tell this was developed from heart, prayer and next level organization. In looking over planners and seeing reviews this one captures my heart. I’m a military Mama, that homeschools and has a blended family. So sometimes it all falls on me with little or no help. This seems like it is a sense of calm. The layout of this planner and everything it has to offer seems like a dream, peace and support in planning and organizing. This is a breath of fresh air to be able to have everything in one go to place. The verses and additional resources throughout is encouragement so needed in today’s world.
With 6 kids, 1 in high school, and 1 in 8th grade, I’ve got to keep things organized and straight and I love how this planner is set up!
I love all the options that are offered.
I am a homeschooling Mom of 4 so far. My children are the ages 9 months, 3 years, 5 years, and 8 years. Although we are new to homeschooling, it’s been such a wonderful blessing to do so! We look forward to all years to come and all the wonderful things to learn!
I really need to be more organized and less stressed. Love this blog post
looking forward to trying the online version. this will be our 4th year with your planners
This will be my third year using this planner. I love it!