My dh works for a very large computer related firm in management. If I were ever asked for attendance or if there was ever a question regarding things that were taught, I have it all in OneNote. He has asked me to show him the best way to use One Note for him to use on his own next year. My son decided to have a "paper planner" this year and hated it. My daughter still uses this and loves checking off the boxes. Then I have a beautiful page to print for the child to keep on their clipboards for the week. It allows me to see what I need to prepare for also. ![]() I also add volunteer times, sports practices and games, field trips, outside class work, medical/dental appointments, and family events. Each Sunday afternoon, I plug in the work from the yearly planner into the weekly planner and do any tweaking I need to do. Then I make a weekly template for the courses the particular child will take. It always changes here and there, but at least I have a rough draft. I list the week numbers (I learn my lesson and do not put actual dates on the year planner), then plan out my year. I also use it for all of my "home" organization, Christmas lists and ideas, landscape planning, recipe lists, personal library and DVD library, garden planning, trip planning, genealogy info, decorating info, etc.Įach year, I begin a new "year planner" which is a table with all of the courses I plan to teach. I also have favorite quotes, school purchases, college search info, notes on every individual course I have taught or future course research, dyslexia info, websites, book lists, blog lists, school-related articles, tea time ideas, writing ideas, legal info, transcript info, field trip planning, etc. It has all of my research for the 8 years, as well as, every planning page for both kids. I use it for planning everything other than my calendar. It is awesome and I would be lost without it. I am now planning for my 8th year of homeschooling. Hope someone else finds this as helpful as I do. If you already use One Note and have other helpful ideas, please share. Just change the names on your pages from Week 3 to Week 8 or whatever. When you fall way behind because _(Fill in the blank)_, you can still use all your great planning ideas. Before you head to the library, find those tags.Ħ. Tag books to read with the "Book To Read" tag. When the summer sales start, just click "Find Tags" and boom, all your supply lists will show up.ĥ. Tag supplies you will need for different projects you want to do through out the year. Personally, my computer is full of great ideas I found and downloaded but forgot I had.Ĥ. Then you don't have to remember that you found it and where on earth you put it. Now, being a good homeschooler, you continue to search online and find 7 more files that will do the same thing but might be better. By week 6, you guess they will be onto papers, so you plop in the "How to write a paper," etc. In the first week, you link to the awesome "How to write a paragraph" file you found online. Example - you're teaching your kids how to write. You can link to documents right on your planning page. I am organizing my entire next school year on it.Ģ. It is an electronic binder idea - tabs, files, notes, etc. Why is it so great? Let me count the ways:ġ. One Note is part of my Office 2010 Suite.
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