Simple Checklist To Organize Your Homeschool Week

** Update: I've had to remove the link to the blank daily plan. I had left it editable in the hopes that people would save a copy and then edit their copy but that is not happening. I've now taken it offline and I'm not sure if or how I will replace it. Sorry for any inconvenience. It is an easy table to duplicate if you are so inclined. **

How do you organize your homeschool day? 

Do you use a planner or checklist? Or an online program?

This list is a simple thing, but what a big help to have a visual of our week. 

The last couple years I used an online scheduling program called Homeschool Skedtrack which, while I really liked it, is very intensive in terms of adding in all the lessons you are going to do in a year for each subject. At least the way I did it. It kept me on track for the year and it was something to look at every morning to see what we needed to do and check it off.

Funny thing, this list is working just as well for us. I post the list for the boy and the girl on the side of the fridge and as they do their subjects they check them off. My girl is in grade 3 so she can run through the 'on my own' section while I work on other things with my boy in grade 1. This list was passed on to my from our Homeschool Teacher.

I decided to leave all of my girl's curriculum in the editable list because I know I always like to see what others are using. :)

This is how we've been using it. 

Click on the image below to view or print blank checklist.

And just for fun, in case you're wondering what the list above is referring to, here's a list of the curriculum we are currently using for Grade 3. There are a couple areas not covered by the list, like Social Studies for example. I realize that.

MATH - BJU Press Math 3

HANDWRITING - www.education.com cursive worksheets

WRITESHOP - WriteShop Junior Book D

HISTORY -  Corresponding chapters in Mystery of History 1 and Story of the World Vol 1

SCIENCE - Sonlight Science D

DRAW WRITE NOW - Draw Write Now, Book 1

Hope your week goes smoothly!

Home Management Planner Pages

Here are the pages from my home management planner. Click on the image or the link for a larger view, and if there is a magnifying glass be sure to click it once, then right click and save the image to your computer. For most of them I've included my planner page and a blank alternative.

**UPDATE: These are no longer available for download**

Morning Routine and Evening Routine
I personally think the Evening Routine is the most important part of the day (organization-wise) - but I am definitely still working on being consistent in doing it. The ideas in these two routines you might recognize from the fly lady. I've changed them up to fit me. I have to say there are a couple things on there that I still aspire to do. Clean the bathrooms every morning, I don't think so! Maybe one day.

my morning checklist

morning checklist - blank

my evening checklist

evening checklist - blank

Daily Checklists

There's a new addition to my daily checklists because I borrowed it, almost straight across but not quite, from my friend Natasha of Domestica, the awesomest new blog. Check it out for fresh inspiration and ideas on home and life. 

my monday checklist

monday checklist - blank

my tuesday checklist

tuesday checklist - blank

my wednesday checklist

wednesday checklist - blank

my thursday checklist

thursday checklist - blank

my friday checklist

friday checklist - blank

A few more . . .

weekly planner pg 1

weekly planner pg 2

emergency contact sheet

my weekly chore checklist

weekly chore checklist - blank

to do list

For more links to free planner pages and more information on how to create your own planner, check this post

Home Organization - my planner

I've been working on my home management planner - for lack of a better name. It's kind of my home office in a binder. I've been redoing some of my checklists and such. I was going to fix up just a couple, but they all got a makeover.

I will post the pages as well for you, but for now I'll tell you about what I do.

I started putting together my planner about six months ago. When I started, I looked at a lot of checklists and planner pages available already, because I thought if I could find a set to just download and print it would be so much easier and faster than making my own. I didn't find exactly what I was looking for, so I've taken what I found and compiled it and added colour to it all to make it pretty. You can decide for yourself if I managed that, but I work much better in colour.

I use a zippered Mead brand binder like this from Walmart (it was a lot less there than on the Mead site), and I would say that a zippered binder is a very good idea. It has more pockets inside that are very useful as well.

I put my pages in page protectors and I use wipe off markers to write on the page protectors. It all wipes off very easily. I would prefer to print off fresh sheets (especially the monday to friday checklists, for example), but when I add up how much printing and ink that is ... wipe off works fine.

I have sections for my weekly planner, meal planning (which is not very developed yet!), addresses, homeschool and an events section that is divided further into smaller sections such as christmas, awana, family camp, etc.

I'm telling you all this to inspire you to try it. Having all the information and papers that are usually scattered across the house in one place is a huge benefit. Having a schedule of when you do what, broken down weekly/daily makes for a lot less wasted time (in theory, anyway!).

Check out these sites for more information on creating a home management binder of your own:

Organizing Your Way 
Organized Home
Calendars That Work 
Fly Lady
Mom Agenda