Friday, August 6, 2010

Keeping Kids Organized :: Our Daily Planner

I am a planner. I love to have my daily planner in front of me each morning so I know exactly what things I need to accomplish in the day. I have found days that I stray from using it, I do not get as many things done. Those are the days when I finally go to bed at night, I wonder what in the world I've done all day.

And recently, I discovered Little Buddy needs that same visual element to keep his day together. I started using our daily planner each school day to keep us both on track for the day. Even though I have well-written lesson plans available to me and follow along with those, they did not include everything we needed to accomplish in a day. Therefore, I made my own quick planner for each day.

Little Buddy certainly enjoys having the flexibility of helping to decide the order of subjects we'll be covering for the day and when we'll have a break, etc. Our one hard and fast rule is that our day begins with Bible and prayer.

I had so many emails asking about the planner, I thought I would share it with you. You can easily create your own using your spreadsheet or word processing software. But if you'd like, you are welcome to utilize ours until you have time to make your own.

Download our Daily Planner.

While the planner has helped us tremendously with Little Buddy being able to know the routine for the day, including our homeschooling work, we also use the planner on weekends.

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What favorite planning tool do you share with your child?


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