This post will how I adapted an Erin Condren teacher's planner to work as a homeschool lesson planner. I have always made my own planner for homeschool and this year most of the printables I used were no longer available. When erincondren.com had a sale on the teacher's planner it gave me the chance to try it out this year.
I made stickers to reorganize some of the pages to be more user friendly for homeschool use.
For this page I am going to add the web site for our umbrella school, my teaching verification number along with the website and password for where we file grades. I got to thinking if for whatever reason I was unable to file our paperwork for the school year my husband would have no idea where to go.
This was the Happy Birthday page, since I have one child I am homeschooling this was not a page I would use. I decided to turn into a list of fun days such as donut day, star wars day etc. Kiddo loves all those fun National day of ....
For the absent pages I decided to turn them into a log of field trips, books he reads and extra curricular activities.
I can't wait to fill up the reading log.
For the graph paper I am going to use it as a list of the curriculum we are using this next year and the color curriculum key I always make for the year.
For the Year Plan section I turned into a supply list for labs he will be doing this year in General Science. This way I can make sure I have all the supplies on hand at the beginning of each month.
While I could have just written the Subjects at the top of the page this was prettier and more efficient.
The checklist pages I turned into grades for tests and attendance.
I did add a notepad to the back of the planner, this is one area of the teacher's planner I really did not like there is hardly any note pages. Since I take notes on any curriculum I want to research or ideas for fun experiments, next years curriculum, website to check out etc. Note paper is essential for me.
I did want to show adding all the stickers did add a little bulk at the top but not much. The cover closes fine and does not pop off. I had planned on uncoiling it and adding more note paper but I am not sure now with the added bulk I might still but for now I am going with the notepad.
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