As a homeschool parent, one of the goals is to raise independent students. One of the ways you can work towards this is by using student planners.
I received a copy of the Well Planned Day Student Planner in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own with many contributions from my sixth grade daughter. I was not compensated for my time. Please see our disclosure policy.
A big part of our homeschool is planning. Each week we have a family homeschool planning meeting. The Well Planned Day planners play a major role in our writing down of assignments and overall accountability.
My sixth grade daughter, a new middle schooler, uses the Student Planner exclusively. She used a Student Planner last year as a fifth grader as well. And for weeks, her planner has stayed, perched on the end table right beside the chair where she sits to read. It’s handy there!
What is the Well Planned Day Student Planner?
This 12 month, fully dated (July 1st – June 30th) planner guides upper elementary and middle schoolers through keeping up with school assignments, daily skills practice, chores and responsibilities.
- Step-by-step instructions, complete with samples, show you how to teach your student the ins and outs of time management.
- Show your student how to find their rhythm for the week while also managing long-term goals like reading through a booklist.
- Monthly spreads and project planning pages help your student learn how to process the big picture of planning.
- New designs every month make it fun to keep up with the daily necessities such as school assignments, chores, and other responsibilities.
- Your student can see how far they’ve come each semester as they process through successes and achievements.
- A comprehensive student reference section keeps important information easily accessible and at their fingertips.
What We Love About the Well Planned Day Student Planner
1. The Fun Customizations
There are two options for ordering your Well Planned Day Student Planner:
- The Standard Option – quickly complete your order and be ready to start planning in a snap!
- Quick Custom Planner – you select your favorite cover design, choose a background color, and customize the inspirational add-ons. Best of all, you choose the start date! Pick any month of choice to get started, ensuring your student planner fits your school year exactly.
2. The Size
The size! These are 6×9 inches and the perfect for tucking into a backpack, binder or even a purse. (Size comparison, above, with the Well Planned Day Family Homeschool Planner). Small enough for her, yet…
2. It Opens Wide
…it opens wide to a full calendar and a full week. The spiral binding allows it to open fully, or fold back depending on your needs. It also has nice, big squares for notes.
3. Extra Spots and Pages
Plus… there are spots to record thoughts, notes, successes, friends, favorite books and more:
- encouraging quotes throughout
- Bible verses
- places for recording successes, favorites, journaling ideas
- reading logs for each semester
Well Planned Day Bonus Reference Section:
- parts of speech
- punctuation
- capitalization
- commonly misspelled words
- conversation tables
- geometry
- equivalent measurements
- United States of America map, states (and abbreviations) and their capitols
- US presidents
- government and US wars
- world map with populations and countries
- the solar system
- space fun facts
- year at a glance
My Well Planned Day Planner Reviews
- High School Planner and the Four Year High School Planner at Hodgepodge (Daniele reviewed this planner as well here at The Curriculum Choice!)
- Family Homeschool Planner
- Plus our weekly homeschool planning meeting habit with all our planners
In Summary
The Well Planned Day planners are wonderful tools that help us aim for success. They encourage us with Godly quotes, help us to remember and focus on what is most important.
Quote from Student Planner: On January 12, 1723, I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to be himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were; and His law for the constant rule of my obedience: engaging to fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, to the end of my life. ~ Jonathan Edwards
More Well Planned Day & Planner Reviews
- Homeschool Planners & Planning Resources
- The Well Planned Day Family Planner
- Well Planned Day Family Homeschool Planner
- High School 4 Year Planner by Well Planned Day
- Family Planner and Student Planner by Tricia
Homeschooling for over a dozen years now, Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos with five children from preschool to high school. She shares a mixture of art lessons, recipes and helpful homeschool habits at Hodgepodge. She and her husband, Steve (who writes app and technology reviews), are co-owners of Curriculum Choice.
I actually use one curriculum for everyone, but I plan to let our boys each pick one thing they want all of us to study further.
I plan with my calendar. It would be nice to have a planner that size.
This is our first year homeschooling so the kids have given a lot of inupt on things.
Just what we need !
I use the same curriculum for my children; however, they tell me things they want to do or go see and we schedule as much as we can. This planner would sure help!
We would <3 a student planner for my 16 yr. old..not that she needs it :}
This is our first year at home, so we are sort of winging it for now. DS has been telling me what sorts of things he wants to learn, and I take it from there. A little more structure would probably do us good. š
My children help at the beginning of the year with the choosing of books, and more.
I love planners and organizing. Would love to win the planner. Thanks for the info!
~Heather
this is my first year and I’m going to have my daughter help me with what she wants to learn and go from there.
usually I just fill out what is needing to be done, but after a few weeks, if something isn’t working out well we discuss then how to change it, either less work or more, or ditching that item all together, that’s when I get their input
My daughter just started highschool, so she is planning more of what she reads and she gets to choose from an activity list which activities she does every week for History, Art, and English. Since my daughter is more independent with high school this year, my 6th grade son got to choose which units of history he would like to cover this year.
I think this looks great. I have 10th and 8th grade girls if would be great for.
My son just started 9th grade and this would be a blessing to me as I need to start keeping records and to organize everything. Thank-You for the opportunity. š
My 5th grader really loves to write her work down. Since I do all our planning on our iCloud calendars she misses the little check boxes! I think she would really enjoy having her own planner also.
I have always used a composition book. This would be nice and organized for my fifth grader.
I’ve done most of the planning this year with some input from my son as to what he would like added to his studies. As he gets older, I would like for him to gradually take over the planning for his own lifelong education. Teach him how then let him do.
Just perfect! I need one more!
I loved my Well-Planned Day planner last year. This year I couldn’t fit it in my budget, so I’ve tried to do without it, but I am so lost!! Would love to win one. My oldest child would particularly benefit from its use.
I use the Well-Planned day for the all of our kiddos, but the student edition would be great for our 6th grader as we encourage him to take more ownership of his schoolwork.