Our 2010-2011 Family Homeschool and Household Notebook with Re-usable daily, weekly, and month lists.

Many of you know, how I enjoy to come up with ways to lessen our paper usage. Last spring I shared our School Binders and Page protectors. I got to thinking this year as I was printing and making homeschool forms for our school that it would be nice to do something similar for our daily, weekly and monthly lists. I came up with the idea to use overhead projection sheets over those forms. Below, I will share pictures of our household book that I have put together. This year, I am using one book that include both our homeschool and our household information.

After much prayer and a lot of reading of reviews, and looking over samples, I finally bought the 2010-2011 The Schoolhouse Planner from The Old Schoolhouse Store. I really like many of the forms that is has. I have used several of them in our book for this year. I also used many of my own from the Large Family Homeschool Forms page. I made the cover for our book and the divider section pages using Microsoft Publisher. I used my new comb binder to bind it. I love having my comb binder and use it regularly around the home and in our homeschool.

To begin the project of designing our book, I selected the different pages that I wanted in our book. From daily, weekly and monthly to do list, to homeschool forms, household forms, medical forms, and a Bible reading plan. They are all in here.

After printing all the pages, I started the punching of the pages for the comb. It took quite awhile, but was worth the time. Next I put the pages in order and put them in the binding comb.

What I love most about this book, is that I can use a wet erase marker each day, week, and month for our to do list and menus.

Here is the cover, I also placed an over head projection page over the cover, to help protect it.

Here is my daily to do list, notice the red text? That is written on the over head projection plastic page—tonight I will erase it and write down our to dos for tomorrow. This is one of the TOS planner pages.

Here you can see the plastic is pulled back to give you a better idea.

Here is our weekly planner. I have our menu, a brief homeschool plan, and special housekeeping plan here. I also have my blog post schedule here. This is a TOS planner page.

Here is what my divider pages look like. I made them out of cardstock.

Here is our Bible reading plan for the year. This is one of the TOS planner pages also. I really like how it is broken down.

My comb binder. I really love this gadget. It is one of those, won’t be living without it now that I have one items.

Do you have your household notebook done? What are your secrets?

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