Review: Student Planner

I received a free copy of the TOS Student Planner: Primary edition to review.

I was excited to get a chance to see what the student planner's were like since I now have the main TOS Schoolhouse Planner.  Ok, I have to confess something here-I am not one who uses a lot of organizational tools.  Until recently (as in the last year or so), I could easily keep my calendar in my head.  I would write things down on my home wall calendar, but once it was written, I wouldn't even need to look at the calendar.  I could tell you what we had going on for the week-no problem.  Perhaps it's age, perhaps it's something else, but over the past year or two, I have actually forgotten appointments-something I never did before! 

In September, I sat down with the Schoolhouse Planner and printed out some of the forms that I thought would help me organize our schooling and daily lives.  My notebook may not be as big as some of my friends, but it contains just what I need and I am finding it helpful.  So when I got the opportunity to try out the student edition I was excited.  It's never too early to start teaching your children about organizing and keeping track of important things, such as schoolwork.

I started out printing out the calendar pages for the kids and a couple of other forms that I want them to use (the reading list being one of them.)  Then I let the kids sit down with the file and look through the pages and print out the ones they want in their book.

This Student Planner is divided into four main sections as follows:

Calendars:  There is a year-at-a-glance calendar for both 2010 and 2011 and two types of grid calendars (one with lines and one without) for the 2010-11 school year.  There is also a customizable grid calendar-you type in your own wording and numbers.

Informational Must Know Lists:  Some of these lists include Parables of Jesus, a multiplication table, a list of Newbery Medal winning books, a list of Caldecot Medal winning books, Basic information on the planets, The Presidents and their wives and many, many more lists of helpful information.

Homeschool Forms: Some of the forms included in this section are weekly and daily planning forms, attendance charts, logs for field trips and books read, journal pages, science lab sheets and many more.

Organizational Forms: Here you will find chore charts, a Bible reading schedule, a form for writing (or typing) in your family tree and a few other helpful forms.

Precise Prince loved a lot of the informational lists and had me print out quite a few of them.  I found him reading them before bed one night.  Creative Princess's favorite forms were the journal pages.  She loves writing (as long as it's not an actual school assignment. LOL)  The kids enjoyed getting the chance to choose their own pages for their new organizational notebook.

I think this Planner is a good tool.  I do want to mention that most of these forms are in the main Schoolhouse Planner so if you are like me and prefer to just print out the forms to put in a notebook to write in, then you don't need to this planner in addition to the main planner.  But both planner's allow you type directly into the e-book and save the changes so if you prefer to keep everything on your computer then it would be helpful to have this for your child to type into directly.  The primary edition Student Planner is only $9.95.  You may purchase it here.