The Ultimate Homeschool Planner Printable for 2024
Feeling overwhelmed with all the things you need to do in your homeschool? A simple homeschool planner printable can help you get your time and curriculum under control. Get back to what matters most–educating your kids!
I admit, that when I first started my homeschooling journey, I didn’t really know what I was in for. All the fun of learning at home with your kids around the kitchen table becomes a little less magical when you start trying to figure out your state’s requirements.
Not to mention choosing your curriculum, tracking records, and keeping an attendance record. It gets even more stressful when you think about having to report it to your county, state, or homeschool association!
For my first year, I bought a fancy planner and tried to keep notes and track everything we did. I ran out of steam pretty quickly and found myself struggling to keep up with it all.
By my second year of homeschooling, I had learned what mattered and what didn’t. I found a way to easily keep track of the things I needed to remember, and let the others go.
A Homeschool Planner That Works
If you follow any other homeschool moms on social media, you’re sure to see plenty of different planning solutions. Everyone has their favorite.
The truth is, there’s not one that fits perfectly into everyone’s lifestyle. And that’s okay. You might need to pick and choose the pages and styles that work best for you.
For instance, if you’re homeschooling a kindergartner, you’re homeschool planning will look a lot different than a mama who has a child in high school.
Don’t be afraid to download and print only the pages that fit your needs. Even if that means making a hybrid from different types of planners!
A homeschool planner that works is whichever one you’ll use consistently.
How Do You Structure a Homeschool Day?
Again, the structure of your day will often depend on the ages and grades of your kids. Little kids can’t focus as long as older ones and their work isn’t as challenging. Also, some states don’t require stringent reporting of grades until students earn credits.
I’ve always held the belief that you should start the day with a harder subject, or one you don’t care for. My kids don’t much care for that, so we’ve reached a little compromise.
We start our day with something a little more fun, then move into math, which is everyone’s least favorite!
Here’s a glimpse of what our day looks like. This is our “perfect” day, and our daily schedules don’t always look like this. But this is the goal!
9:00-10:00: Morning time. This time includes the time we read together, do handwriting practice, geography flashcards, and Bible verses. This is our favorite part of the day and sometimes runs much longer than an hour.
10:00-10:15: Break time.
10:15-12:00: Bookwork. This looks different depending on our daily docket, but we try to have math done by noon.
12:00-1:00: Lunch.
1:00-2:00. Bookwork. We have a hard time focusing after lunch, so we usually save our easier work for this last hour.
Our goal is to be done by 2:00 each day. But if the weather is warm, our lunch break often gets extended to play outside. Sometimes we don’t get finished until a little later.
Right now, this plan works for us, but it might change as my kids get older.
The beauty of homeschooling is that you can plan the homeschool schedule that works for you and your family.
What is the Best Homeschool Planner?
The best homeschool planner is simply the one you’ll use. It varies from person to person depending on your own daily planning needs. Your choice of curriculum can also influence what you need in a planner.
I’ve tried some pretty fancy ones! But I keep coming back to the dimple daily planning pages that help me keep my life organized and on track.
The Perfect Homeschool Planner Printable
Still not sure what you need in your own planner? Use these ideas to build a custom printable planner that works for you.
Homeschool Requirements
The most important part of homeschooling is to make sure you’re doing it legally! Requirements vary greatly from state to state.
You may need to be part of an association, take yearly tests, or report a certain number of instructional days. Having a place to keep this information ready is a vital first step in choosing a planner.
Attendance Tracker
I live in a state with pretty straightforward homeschool requirements. Each year I have to turn in records showing that my children had 180 instructional days of school. Tracking this throughout the year makes it easier to have that info ready when it’s time to report.
Year At-a-Glance Calendar
If you’re counting days, checking on field trips or need to know what day the 2nd of September falls on next year this calendar is handy to have!
Monthly Calendars
No planner would be complete without monthly planner pages! These are a great way to look over your months at a glance. You can also write down any holidays, days off, or special events you have coming up.
Since my goal is 180 school days each year, I also use my monthly calendar to count the days to make sure I’m going to hit my goal!
Student Information Tracker
I like to think I’ll remember everything about my kids from one year to the next. Isn’t that a funny joke? This page helps me notice little things about my kids from year to year. It’s an easy way to be intentional about their individual needs and track their progress.
Curriculum Resources
It seems like no matter what curriculum you choose, it never comes with everything you need to teach all the lessons. (Science experiments, anyone?) Use this page to track what you have, what you need, and where you can buy it.
This sheet is also a great place to track your budget throughout the year.
Goal Tracker
The best way to get where you want to go is to have a plan! Setting goals for each of your kids at the start of your homeschool year will help you make sure they’re making progress.
As Christian mamas, we want to see them develop in all the traditional subject areas, but also in their character and spiritual growth.
Important Dates
Have you ever forgotten a fun holiday or event you hoped to attend with your kids? (Guilty.) This page is the perfect place to jot them down so you won’t forget them!
Notes Section
Are you a notetaker? I sure am! I love having plenty of pages to use to write down all those random thoughts, ideas, book lists, and quotes I can never remember!
Student Schedule
If you have older students who are tracking hours, or participating in extracurricular activities, this page is for you! You can keep it to refer to or give it to kids to track their weekly schedules.
Master Schedule
Even as homeschoolers, we often participate in outside activities–piano lessons, field trips, co-ops, etc. The master schedule helps you keep track of all of your weekly plans!
I’ve found that using a time-blocking schedule works great for me and my family. It’s easy to use this daily schedule page for time-blocking.
Grade Record
My kids are young, and we don’t do a lot of grade-tracking yet. But if you’ve got kids in high school who are earning credits for graduation, you know this is important!
Field Trip Tracker
I’m not going to lie: field trip planning is not my strong suit! But some mamas rock this part of their homeschool!
This page will help you plan all sorts of educational and fun field trips for your kids, no matter their ages.
Website Logins
Have you ever cleared all your browser cookies–and suddenly had to log in to everything again? Or share devices between multiple family members? If so, you’re definitely going to want this login and password page.
Book List
Books are an important part of our weekly lesson plans or for independent work. And there are books everywhere!
Someone is always recommending a good book to us. I can never remember them all. But this handy page will help me to do it. Plus, we can remember who recommended our favorites to us.
Weekly Planning Pages
If you need a place to plan all of your activities and subjects each week, this is the page! While I love the monthly calendar pages, the weekly planner is the backbone of my homeschool! You can print out one set for each child and track what they do in each subject each day. It helps me make sure they’re completing all the work they need to do.
How to Use Your Homeschool Planner Printables
One thing I’ve found in my homeschool planning is that fancy isn’t always better. You can go out and buy a fancy planner and sometimes find a few pages to use. The others are just wasted.
But when you have a printable planner, you can easily print out only the pages you need, and skip the others.
Don’t need a course grade page? Don’t bother to print those.
Have a kid who loves to read? Print out extra book tracker pages for them to track.
Use a simple 3-ring binder to organize all of your pages, and add and remove as necessary.
You can even keep pages from previous years in your planner, so it’s easy to refer to them.
Get the Ultimate Homeschool Planner
Ready to get started with a new planner? I’ve created one that’s the perfect tool for all of your homeschooling needs.
It includes all the pages mentioned in this post, including:
- a weekly planner for each week of your school year
- monthly calendar pages (undated, so you can start and finish at any time)
- report card sheets
- trackers for passwords, books, and more
- reading logs and trackers for middle school and high school
- a pretty front cover
- BONUS: unit study planner
Have you made it to Thanksgiving and realized that your fancy planner just isn’t meeting all your needs? The best part of this planner is that it’s undated, So, you start using it at any time in the year. It’s easy to customize and fits to your family’s needs.
More Homeschool Resources for You
- 57 Heartfelt Bible Verses for Your Homeschool
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