The Ultimate Homeschool Planner: The Last Planner You Will Ever Need [Illustrated] [Ring-bound]

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2001

The Ultimate Homeschool Plan Book is just what it sounds like--the last planner you will ever need to purchase!

Featuring ready-to-copy pages, this attractive planner can be used year after year after year. Simply choose which of the forms and sheets will be beneficial for you,make copies, and your set. And since you can photocopy and customize and change your planner from year to year, you will never have to purchase another! In addition to the every-imaginable worksheet and planning tool, THE ULTIMATE HOMESCHOOL PLAN BOOK features loads of articles to help guide you on your journey. You'll find article on how to schedule, how to balance your homeschool, organizing the home, budgeting your money and much more. After all we talked to hundreds of homeschoolers to find out what they wanted and needed in order to efficiently plan their homeschooling year. Then we created this planner to fill that need.

Editorial Reviews

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"I love this, because I can customize it and it covers every area of my busy life and homeschool." -- Kara Wallen, homeschooling mom

Product Details

• Ring-bound: 232 pages
• Publisher: Champion Press (WI); Lslf edition (July 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891400010
• ISBN-13: 978-1891400018
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,650,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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89 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Only Book I Have Ever Returned To Amazon, February 18, 2005

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This review is from: The Ultimate Homeschool Planner: The Last Planner You Will Ever Need (Ring-bound)

The premise of this book sounds great but it just does not live up to expectations. The majority of the book is comprised of organizational forms that are simplistic and could easily be done yourself with a few minutes on a word procdessor or spreadsheet, and done much more conveniently and with more depth and flexibility on any of the various homeschool organizational software programs that are available. There are a few helpful articles in the book, but they are too few to warrant the price.

149 of 161 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Totally stinks, February 13, 2004

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Rachael "emily dickenson" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Homeschool Planner: The Last Planner You Will Ever Need (Ring-bound)

I bought this in a desperate moment of wanting to be more organized with my homeschooling, (we all ahve those moments) and since it is the only one out there I thought I would give it a try. It is alful. There is no binding, no colorful front, and the pages are basically copied and thrown in a box. The copies are even crooked on the page! The price for this is outlandish considering the product and I really regret buying it. PLease don't waste your money, you are better off creating your own-- if you are worried that yours will be too unprofessional or will look too homemade-- don't. That is exactly what this one looks like.

This is an absolute waste of money that could be better spent. Een a teacher's plan book would be better than this.

In short, don't waste your money!!!!!!!!!!!!!

48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Make Your Own., December 22, 2005

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This review is from: The Ultimate Homeschool Planner: The Last Planner You Will Ever Need (Ring-bound)

This was not a very useful resource or practical planner. The designers really should step away from the one-size-fits-all strategy and let users buy packages of the specific pages they want to use - like Franklin Covey time managers, for example.

I bought this book when I was THINKING about homeschooling, so it SOUNDED great, but once I began homeschooling and realized how many different ways there are to do it, I also realized that no single planner could ever be "the ultimate homeschool planner" for all families.

I have used just ONE of the pages in this book, and I had to make my own photocopies - the book just provides the master!!

You are MUCH better off tailoring a curriculum planner to your own specific needs. If you can't make a word document look the way you want, then use a ruler and notebook paper and photocopy your page. Get a 3 ring binder and some dividers, and some of those page reinforcers to reinforce the holes, and you will be set. You can also have the kids design the cover to slip in the binder if you want something a bit more decorative.