In my personal planner, I use the top section for plans for the day, the middle for 'to-do's', and the bottom for daily chores and meal planning. The Happy Planner provides three sections for each day, leaving it up to you to decide what to use those for. You could write a little memory on each day, even. You could use it for actual planning, like which days you have music lessons or co-op. So far, I haven't used the monthly spreads for anything except for keeping track of which days were school days - but I suppose the possibilities are endless. I have the ARC one from Staples, which works with this too, and is more heavy duty to punch more pieces of paper at a time. If you get a Happy Planner, you definitely do need to purchase the hole puncher. I love the discbound planners because you can hole punch *anything* into them! I printed our booklists for the year and stuck them right in the front. I taped our weekly routine onto the inside cover, so it would be easy to reference. The 'Week' flag is for tracking which week of school you're on, if you track that. Just color one in for each day of school you've finished that week. The little numbered flags at the top are for days of school completed. I figure that the actual planner pages will be used for that, while this will be a neat recording of what we actually accomplished! As you can see, it doesn't tell me at all what to do each day, or what order to do it in. Inspired by a bullet journaling layout I saw online, I created this weekly layout that I could punch using the ARC punch for the disc-bound planners, and stick this sheet in and fill it out as we go, each week. Ironically, I needed something even simpler.

Fairly simple! I'm such a visual person, I really wanted a really clean, simple week overview and the layout of A Simple Plan wasn't doing it for me. Rather, I just do the next thing within each subject, and once we've done it, I record what we've done. I don't 'plan' our lessons out to the day ahead of time. I use a Happy Planner for personal use, but was using A Simple Plan planner for school. I tried a couple different things over the past few months of the school year but I landed on a favorite so I thought I'd share in case it's helpful to you! It's still a work in progress (isn't everything?) so I'll update you if I figure out a way to use this system to it's fullest potential.

Lately, I hit my stride with planning and recording our weekly lessons. Planning & Documenting Homeschool Lessons Happy Planner + schoolnest Printables

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