Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year - Crew Review

If you need help getting organized, but want more flexibility than a standard lesson plan book provides, read on! The Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year from The Old Schoolhouse® combines lesson planner with other helpful forms uniquely suited for homeschooling. Intended as a permanent record, the spiral-bound planner can be filed away with your children’s work as a lasting reference to your homeschool year. This planner is designed to bring you encouragement, simple organization, and a few devotions to strengthen your resolve along the way.

This 34-week planner begins with a Hey, Mama! letter of encouragement. Gena Suarez has encouraged me through her Hey, Mama! blog posts and continues to do so in this planner. There are twenty-one letter throughout this planner, each one is found at the start of each monthly calendar section to remind you to stand firm in your resolve to obey God’s call to keep your children at home where they belong. The scripture references contained in this planner are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Then, Gena shares some tips for creating an academic transcript – what should be included in an academic transcript, how to give credits, how to give a final grade, what are cumulative grades, and who signs the student’s academic transcript. An academic transcript is the documentation of your student’s high school courses and grades. Gena also provides you with a blank template where you can write in your student’s academic transcript.

Next, you will see yearly and monthly calendars. Use these pages to plan and schedule your field trips, co-op classes, sports, music lessons, or any other appointments that arise in your homeschool. Gena provides you with a note section as well, just in case you need to make a note for remembrance.

Then, there are the planning pages. This 34-week planner can be used with five children. There is room for seven different subjects (listed down the left hand side) for each child (listed across the top). Fill in these assignment pages with the assignments for the week. I personally plan out a 36-week school year, so this planner is two weeks short for our homeschool.

Wait! There’s more to this Hey, Mama! Homeschool Planner for 2019/20 Year! Gena provides more forms in the back of the planner for each child where you can record your chosen curriculum, attendance record, books read during the year, yearly goals, and semester goals. I especially like how these goals make you stop and think about more than academic goals. Scripture tells us to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; and this page allows you to share those spiritual goals, as well as, physical, personal traits, life skills, financial, and relational goals.

As you can see, this homeschool planner will not only help your homeschooling become more organized and the planning of your day more simplified, bit it will help you keep your eyes on the One who has called you to homeschooling.

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