Monday, July 13, 2009

Still playing with planners

Do you remember last term I said I thought I had our planners all sorted? Well, I'm not ever saying that again. It's obvious I'm going to keep playing around with ideas on how to organise our schedules in paper format; I can't seem to help myself. I must have some compulsive paper organisation behaviour which has come to the fore yet again. I like playing with Excel, and play I did.


I've put the pages into a small A5 booklet per child, rather than stapled into the cover of a manilla folder. In fact, I've put all the papers in there for the rest of the year. A little more user-friendly for the children, but still 'tick the box' style with room to write pages completed.

Well, you know what I have to go and do now, don't you? I need to make up my own planner ... hee, hee!! I've been looking at Donna Young's free planning pages (see the icon on the left sidebar). A few of her ideas are on my list to borrow, but I also need to make up some pages for things such as music lessons (and payments made for those); gardening chores calender; etc. Maybe a schedule for blogging articles, too! (wink!)

1 comment:

Ganeida said...

You are so good! I don't do things like this. Scheduling depresses me. Worse, it depresses Ditz. We pretend we never do school & Ditz tells the most outrageous stories about how she spends her days [she should write pulp fiction! ☺ ]& I pretend that school work isn't really school & Ditz pretends she likes it & when we've pretended enough I send her finished work in to our umbrella school & they tell us how clever we both are. I know. It's exhausting but it's that or get out the cat'o'nine tails & flog the child sensless. I'm a pacifist so that's not really an option...