The Well Planned Day 2011-2012

A Family Homeschool Planner by Rebecca Scarlata Keliher

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I had been eyeballing this planner all summer.  I would have purchased it on sooner, but I was apprehensive on spending the $24.95.  Dumb I know.. I had a perfectly good planning system I have been using since the dawn of time.  WHY use a different one?

I was in Mardel's during their 20% off back to school sale, and grabbed one.  I am really glad I did.

My old one was off of the "A Garden Patch of Reproducible Homeschooling Planning & Educational Worksheets" CD. (check it out HERE)  I bought the CD of this and would print off a "weekly planning log" for each child, then fill out their stuff on each page; then hole punch the pages and put in a notebook.  This is and was a great way to do it.. but I would find those pages ALL OVER my house and car.  My older children would take them out of the notebook.. and not put them back.  **The Garden Patch CD has TONS of other reproducible papers that I still love and use.

Household Finances Household Duties page..

Class plan

This is the spot where you an put a photo (I don't have one).. name, height, weight, strengths, challenges, goals, and what I love all the info on the books they are using.

Student Schedule

I wish we could keep one of these.  This year our homeschool day was turned around because I'm taking #4 to speech at the public school..

Dinner Menu

I love this Dinner Menu section.  It's on every weekly plan page.  I do all my planning on Sunday night.  Whatever I have in the house, is what I plan for dinner this week.. if I don't have it, I put it on the shopping list.

Shopping List!

This has perforated pages so that you can easily tear it out to take it with you.

Attendance Report

Monthly Field Trip & Enrichment plans

Field Trip & Enrichment activities

Overview of a planning week.

Big Calendar to plan out your month

Planning week filled out.

I really like that this holds all of my kids stuff in one place.  If I actually used it for EVERYTHING it would do that would be good too. If you are looking for a all in one planner… check this one out!

I get asked a lot.. "What curriculum do you use?"  I use a variety of stuff.. but here's what we are doing this year.

This is #2's little world.  We tried something new this year.. his biology book is on his laptop.  I'll let you know how that goes.

• Bible: Biblical Manhood
• Math: Math U See Geometry
• English: Writers Express 0669471631 and BK English 1580791166
• Spelling: Ed Helper Online
• Journal: his own blog
• Science: Prentice Hall Biology 0131902369 (TE)
• World History The Human Odyssey 0538423307 (TE)
• Handwriting: Start Write
• FACS: Cooking/Sewing
• State: Cantering the Country 1931397333
• Art: Visual Manna Mastering Drawing 0967738428
• Economics: Consumer Education and Economics

This is #3's desk…cute..

• Bible: Get a Life 0633088900
• Math: Switched on Schoolhouse
• English: Writers Express Inc and BK English
• Journal: Online blog
• Literature: Prentice Hall Literature Bronze 0137224060
• Science Interactions Glencoe 0028268571 (TE)
• History: US History Beginnings to 1877 0030412188 (TE)
• Handwriting: Start Write
• FACS: Cooking/ Sewing
• States: Cantering the Country
• Art Visual Manna and American Art Appreciation 0132995212

#4's Books..

• Bible: Growing with God
• Math: Paths to Math Success 0382348931
• Reading: Hooked on Phonics, and other workbooks
• Spelling: Ed Helper online
• Science: Real Science 0026338044
• History: Our Communities 0021492646 wbk 0021492325
• Daily Geography 9781557999719
• Art: Visual Manna: Art Basics for Children
• Handwriting: Start Write

#5's books

• Bible: Growing with God
• Math: Paths to Math Success 038240166
• Reading: Hooked on Phonics and other workbooks
• Spelling: Ed Helper Online
• Science: Harcourt Science 0153229187 wbk 0153237112
• History: People and Places 002149262x
• Geography: Maps and Globes 0739809652
• Art: Visual Manna Art Basics

Here's a shot of my desk.. with a mixture of books.

We've been remodeling the school room… it's not quite done.  I hope it will be by this weekend.

A shot of our messy bookshelf…

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Each year our Girl Scout Service Unit does a all day craft day called "Winter Fun".  I usually have some part in it, because well… I love crafts.  Here is one of  my crafty designs from this year.

Here's what you need:

• Fleece.. (we cut 100 fleece scarves that were 5.5" across.. on the fold)
• White felt for snowmen and women
• black felt for hat
• red felt for heart
• brown felt for arms
• orange for carrot nose
• glue (we used Tacky Glue)
• embroidery thread and needles (for older kids to embrodier the eyes)
• tiny black pom poms for the younger kids to use as the eyes

We couldn't get enough of one color fleece.. so we bought a couple of different colors.

Here's our diagram of the original.. we put on the board for the girls to make.  I thought it was kind of cute that Mr. Snowman is giving Ms. Snowman his heart and she has her eyes closed.

To save time, we drew the the designs on the felt, and let the girls cut them out, and glue them on.   Winter fun has all ages of girls from Daisy (Kindergarten) to Senior (High School).

Winter Fun isn't just for Girl Scouts.. we let #4 come and craft too!