{"id":7092,"date":"2011-08-04T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:14:17","slug":"planning-the-planbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=7092","title":{"rendered":"Planning the planbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>As I patiently (?) wait for my planbooks to arrive, I thought I would share this post from the archives:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Planbook Alterations<\/h4>\n<p>I do just about everything on my computer. Everything except my  homeschool planbooks. I want to be able to take them with me, give them  to the kids, erase, regroup, and visually &#8220;see&#8221; the week or year in a  way that just can&#8217;t be done on the computer. I have given lots of  thought to designing a planbook on the computer and printing out pages,  but again, I want the whole year in front of me and some courses just  can&#8217;t be filled in completely in late summer. I&#8217;ve thought about  printing pages as I go, but I know myself and that might never happen!  There are also the economics of it to consider. I get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowresource.com\/prodlist.php?sid=1280595427-691430&amp;subject=1&amp;category=131\">Whaley planbooks<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowresource.com\/\">Rainbow Resource<\/a> for about $7 a piece. Once you start factoring in costs of paper, ink, and binding, you are <em>well<\/em> past the $7 deal.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/..\/hsg\/blogart\/homeschool\/pb1.jpg\" alt=\"planbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nSo, once again, I ordered my planbooks. The one thing I really dislike  is having to write in all the course titles on each weekly spread. With  three planbooks to do that starts to get old fast.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/..\/hsg\/blogart\/homeschool\/pb2.jpg\" alt=\"planbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nThis year, finally, I came up with a solution. Using my vintage paper  cutter, I sliced off all but the first strip where you write the courses  in. This is a quarter inch strip on the left side of each spread. Then,  using the computer and Quarkxpress, I typed in each students&#8217; classes  and formatted it to fit in the course area on the first page of each  planbook. This is the one strip that I didn&#8217;t slice off. I printed one  for each student on a different bright-colored paper. I cut this to fit  and glued it on. I added a strip of tape to keep it sturdy, and I was  done.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/..\/hsg\/blogart\/homeschool\/pb3.jpg\" alt=\"planbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nNow the first strip extends beyond the remaining pages like a tab and is  viewable from every spread in the planbook. Took a fraction of the time  all the writing in does, and it is bolder and more pleasant to look at.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/..\/hsg\/blogart\/homeschool\/pb4.jpg\" alt=\"planbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nThe other thing I really like about these planbooks is the heavy gauge  frosted plastic front and back covers. Holds up incredibly well  throughout the entire school year.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/..\/hsg\/blogart\/homeschool\/pb5.jpg\" alt=\"planbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nMy kids draw or print out a picture which we glue to the page with the  eagle, then they have a personalized and easily recognized planbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I patiently (?) wait for my planbooks to arrive, I thought I would share this post from the archives: Planbook Alterations I do just about everything on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,144,385],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-homeschooling","tag-planbooks","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}