Ever full of exciting, original, and usable resources for homeschoolers, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine has come out with its own Schoolhouse Planner.
Where can I begin to describe this planner? It's everything you would expect and so much more that you would never expect! The table of contents alone spans three pages.
Forms, Forms, Forms
Forms, charts, and organizational tools abound in the Schoolhouse Planner. Forms vary from the extremely broad "Twelve-Year Planning Pages" to the detailed "High School Hours Tracking Log" and "Daily Recording Sheet" in two formats. In between you have every type of form you can imagine, plus many more that I guarantee you've never thought of yourself! Weekly plans, progress reports, test score records, and many more. Nearly every form comes in at least two formats so you can pick the one you like best. Some are set up to record information for only one child, while others include space for multiple children. Forms to record unit study information and forms for unschoolers to record life learning events are not left out of this amazing planner.
The Schoolhouse Planner also offers pages for keeping track of Bible Verse Memorization and other Memory Work (such as poems and speeches). I personally love the inclusion of these pages as I definitely need the help keeping track of what memory work my children are doing!
Household management forms are also included, from chore charts to food inventory lists, from a babysitter's information sheet to a page for recording your family's health. I cannot begin to list every type of form available, but rest assured that the list is nearly endless.
Educational Resources
The Schoolhouse Planner is not just a planner! Every major document from United States history has been pulled into this one volume–Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, Louisiana Purchase, and many more. You will find a timeline of inventions, two lists of the Presidents (one with their Vice Presidents and one with their wives), and the periodic table. This planner will last for years in resource value alone. Any time you need a certain resource for your schooling, you're almost certain to find it within the pages of the Schoolhouse Planner. Let's say you're studying the Civil War, the planner contains both the Gettyburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation. No more searching the web for these materials, just go to your planner.
Recipes
More than two dozen recipes are another "beyond the planner" feature. The fare varies from the simple (homemade cornbread) to the fancy (risotto with artichoke hearts and shrip). Your family could try two new dishes a month for the next year and still not wear out the offerings in this cookbook...I mean, school planner!
Encouraging Articles
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is famous for its unending supply of informative, encouraging, and inspiring articles. The Schoolhouse Planner is no exception. It is chockfull of articles on a variety of subjects for parents of toddlers to parents of high schoolers.
I thought I was getting a planner to help me organize my homeschool day, but I really got a cookbook, a magazine, a history book, an atlas, and a lifetime supply of all the forms and charts that I could ever want.
TOS has really outdone themselves with this planner. Within an hour of downloading it, I had printed off about 20 pages that I wanted to use for planning. I placed several of them into clear sheet protectors and used 'sticky tacky' to hang them on the wall. We now have a convienent way to keep track of what lessons we accomplish each day, what books we read, and when certain chores get done–no more asking "When was the last time I mopped anyway?"
These are 247 pages that I will never exhaust!
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