The Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner

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Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Printable Planner

You’re here because like me, you’re passionate about giving your kids a quality Charlotte Mason or Classical education. We want to make sure we’re including every essential subject, plus setting aside time for enrichment opportunities, too. But how do we do that and keep the house picked up, get dinner on the table, and do all the things?

If you’re a mom like me, you also worry that if you don’t plan well, you’ll simply miss the essential subjects as well as the enrichment opportunities you’d like to include each day. It’s stressful!

So how did I finally fix my scheduling woes? I knew I needed a way to track our hours, subjects, and progress. After creating the planner, I am delighted with how efficient, on track, and lovely the planning of our homeschool has become!

You, too, can solve all of those worrisome scheduling problems, make sure you’re including every subject for each student, and do so with efficiency and beauty, to boot! The Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner practically does the work for you.

Without a well-designed planner created especially for the Charlotte Mason and Classical home educator, those worrisome gaps and scheduling issues will continue to sabotage even the best attempts.

You will be the hero in your homeschool with the planner that not only saves the day, it can save the school year!

*Please note that this is a digital product. You will receive a PDF download. No physical product will be received.*

FAQs

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The Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner:

• Is undated and can be reused, year after year

• Is downloadable for you to print yourself

Video preview of pages included

Sample PDF download

Includes:

• Both quarterly and term planning sheets

• 2 covers to choose from

• One sheet and two sheet monthly spreads

• two sheet weekly calendar for general planning

• A child evaluation sheet with spots for jotting down strengths, areas that need improvement, scripture to pray, and a place to record favorite things about your child

• Term notes and term planning sheets

• Attendance sheets

• Weekly planning sheets for each child

• Updated monthly sheets

• Quarterly review sheets

• A mother’s journal page

• Notebooking pages for both primary and elementary students

• A field trip record page

• A nature outing checklist

• A grocery list and meal-planning page

• A “10 Easy Meals” page for quick reference on the busiest days

• A habit reference sheet containing space for a definition, copywork and memorization to accompany the habit, and games, activities, and books to use as resources

• A printable art picture page containing the “I am, I can, I ought, I will” motto from Charlotte Mason’s schools (I used this for the cover of my planner)

• A reading log to track books read, the child’s view of the book, and how well their narration was completed

• A book list page of titles you need to buy, check out, or remind yourself to reserve

• A portfolio page to keep records of your child’s progress through the year

• graph paper for note taking

• curriculum assessment pages

• and more!

How I assembled my own

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• This file is 223MB. Downloading it by itself with a good internet connection is recommended. Attempting to download to a mobile device is not recommended due to the file size.

• 60 pound paper prints well and binds well for the covers and divider pages. For the planning pages, I prefer 32 pound paper. It is sturdy enough to last and to prevent much bleeding through if you like heavier inked pens. I love using the Pilot G2 gel pins.

• Have your finished planner bound at an office supply store, or get a 3-ring binder to hold it. I prefer the binding option because I like that it is lighter to carry around that way. Mine was bound in under 30 minutes with a clear cover black backing, and spiral binding at Office Max.

• Print all your sheets at 84% size and punch them to fit Happy Planner rings. There is a lot of cutting down paper this way, but the size of the planner is much more manageable if you prefer a smaller planner.

• Printing double sided on the weekly planning pages works well and saves paper.

• I printed a mother’s journal page on the reverse side of the monthly pages so I could record things that happen that month.

• Have the Habits list included at the end of your binding so it is always a handy reference.

• The note booking pages, field trip records, reading logs, and portfolio pages may all be kept in a 3 ring binder or printed as necessary. I will be keeping a 3-ring binder for each boy to hold their work, reading logs, field trip records, writing samples, photographs of art pieces, etc., as well as a copy of the hourly log for the year for my own records as Georgia does not require portfolios, but your state might.

Need ideas? Here's how Leah plans her Charlotte Mason Kindergarten with The Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner.

My husband, the organizer, wants a plan for our precious daughter’s kindergarten year that’s coming up this fall. While I would have been content with nature play and finger rhymes, he asked me for a syllabus, a schedule, a well-planned year. This unexpected turn left me a little overwhelmed.

Truthfully, I love putting together curriculum, but getting everything organized and staying organized is not my strong suit. I am planning our Charlotte Mason kindergarten curriculum step-by-step, beginning with the big picture and gradually narrowing in on the everyday plans.

Scheduling a Charlotte Mason Kindergarten

Before jumping into the curriculum, I made a schedule. Instead of just trying to make it from scratch, I worked backwards using the Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner.

I used one of the weekly Charlotte Mason schedule template planning pages and Washi tape to block out subjects that we aren’t going to tackle this year, and isolate days that we want to approach a subject. This visual approach was much easier for me than trying to add subjects and blocks of time.

I left out some subjects completely (writing, language arts, and geography, which we approach by-the-way during the many hours we spend outdoors.) A long piece of Washi tape ran down an entire day when my daughter will be at a homsechool program. And little bits of tape blocked out some days for subjects that we will only approach once a week or so.

With this information, I easily pieced together a Charlotte Mason kindergarten schedule for our days. All of my times are approximations; I’m more concerned with the blocks of time I’ve established than what the clock says when we get to each subject!

Planning the Year

With a schedule in place, I now knew how much to prepare for our laid-back, mostly informal kindergarten. Over the past year or so, I kept a mental list of books that we hadn’t yet read, but wanted to read. These are books from Ambleside Online year 0, and also Charlotte Mason kindergarten curricula from helpful blogs that I’ve found.

The quarter planning pages from the Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner worked perfectly for this stage in my planning. It gives me room to write book titles or things that we want to accomplish each quarter. I printed off four sets of these sheets so I can plan out our entire year, per my husband’s request.

Curriculum Resources

My mental list of books to include in our kindergarten curriculum was built by paying close attention in Charlotte Mason groups, doing quick pre-reading during our library trips, and reading book reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

I’ve also scoured these resources for ideas:

Ambleside Online: Year 0

The Bookroom (Facebook Group)

Planning Charlotte Mason Lesson Plans Each Week

I’m excited to get started planning, but writing plans down too far in advance inevitably means that everything will change by then, leaving me to piece together new plans at the last minute! This summer, I’ll spend some time planning using the super-simple planning technique I developed when I was a teacher: Post-it Notes!

When I pre-read, I just make little notes on Post-its about things I’d like to bring to light: maybe vocabulary words, maybe ideas that I can ask subtle questions about, or maybe a little extra background information that my daughter will need to know before we dig in. I just stick that note into the book, and when I’m ready to plan for the week, I transfer my notes over to the planner. This will allow me to plan far in advance without getting too overwhelmed, while still allowing myself flexibility.

Getting Organized

I printed off the pages for my planner and put them in a 1-inch binder. The only binder I could find happened to be my old lesson planning binder when I was a public school teacher. I was so shocked thumbing through my old plans: terribly written paragraphs that were used as examples for the writing program I had to follow in that school, lots of fill-in-the-blank pages, and math worksheet after math worksheet. What beautiful, living lessons will fill it now!

My goal is to set up my planning binder so it’s as easy to use as possible. Washi tape dividers allow me to navigate my plans in the midst of lessons. Eventually, I will have lots of weekly planner pages in my binder, as well as schedules, quarterly plans, book lists, etc. Folding a piece of Washi tape on the first page of each new section will make it really easy for me to navigate.

Another trick that I’ll use is hole punching some of my planning sheets on the wrong side (right side) of the paper. I know that this makes some of you cringe, but there is a purpose for this. If you have two weekly planning pages, and hole punch one on the left and one on the right, then they can sit side by side in your binder. This makes it easier to plan, in my opinion, because you can easily reference where you left off the week before. It’s also nice to be able to refer to past lessons without having to thumb through dozens of pages of plans.

Looking Forward

I’m sure that I will have some changes to make before our casual Kindergarten starts in the fall, but I’m happy to have an idea of what our days will look like and what we will learn together.

Leah Martin learned about the Charlotte Mason philosophy before she held her first baby in her arms. She taught fourth-graders at a Charlotte Mason school for two years before leaving to fulfill her life-long dream of raising her children full-time. She started My Little Robins to help parents navigate the Charlotte Mason early years. Leah lives in Colorado with her husband and three children.

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