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Homeschool Planet Review The Homeschool Scientist

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In our Homeschool Planet review, you will find out why we categorize it as more than a tool for planning out homeschool lessons, it’s a life organizing tool!

If you haven’t checked out this online tool or aren’t sure about an online planner, I recommend that you do. Paper planners were always my go to, but I just can’t keep up with them, and writing assignments in a paper planner is something I do well for about a week, and then it literally falls apart as our schedule goes in an unexpected direction. 

Homeschool Planet Review – Highlighted Features

There are multiple features in this online planner that truly makes it a game changer for planning the busy life of a homeschooling family:

Reassigning lessons is super-simple. How many times does our week go off course? Sometimes life throws our homeschooling off for a few months as we deal with a family emergency. It just happens, and rather than go through an entire paper planner reworking assignments, this planner has amazing rescheduling features. 

Homeschool Planet has pre-packaged lesson plan plugins for a lot of popular homeschool curriculum! For a super-affordable price, you purchase can the lesson plan plugin (It is NOT the actual curriculum), and the plugin automatically schedules the assignments into the calendar! Of course, you can review and move things around as needed.

The calendar has some helpful and impressive features and capabilities. I can pull in my Google Calendar, our family Google calendar, and my work Google calendar. YES! 

This is why I call it a life organizer. Without leaving the Homeschool Planet portal, I can see things like big test days, field trip days, along with doctor appointments, recitals, rehearsals, vacations, social events, etc. I can also see when my hubby is out of town, which can have an effect on our homeschool and extra-curricular schedules. 

Homeschool Planet Review – Why We Love this Planner

I just love the “life at a glance” capability the Homeschool Planet Planner provides.

Navigation is SIMPLE. If you do struggle with getting up and started on the portal, they have step-by-step instructions and how-to videos. But honestly, it’s so intuitive; I was up and running in a matter of minutes.

Accommodates multiple children in your household. If you have 1,2… 5,6,7 or 12 children, no problem. As long as the family members are residing in the same domicile, you are good. You can check out their policy here.

Full visibility for you and your children. The details of each assignment, grades, upcoming assignments, projects, tests, and the calendar. 

Have you ever heard, “But I didn’t know that was due today?” or “I didn’t know which book I was supposed to work out of.” Everyone can see the calendar, the assignments, grades, etc.

Our kids need us to model being good stewards of our time…the days, weeks, months, and years. It all starts with having the right tools. This planner helps our children learn how to plan, provides visibility of where their time is spent (or wasted), and how to pivot and reschedule when the initial plans change. Being flexible with plans is an important habit to develop; as we know, life doesn’t always go according to OUR plan. So, our children must have experience changing course and not getting completely off track. 

The assignment feature allows you to list the resources, i.e., textbooks, workbooks, DVDs—even resources on a website or an attached PDF. I’ve used a lot of current events, especially in high school English, civics, and history classes, so it’s nice being able to attach a PDF of an article or a direct link. I love this capability.

You don’t have to do daily assignments; you can do weekly assignments. So, if you have a child who works more productively with a weekly list of what needs to be completed, you can certainly do that with Homeschool Planet. I have a child who likes to be given a list at the start of the week and works through it on her own. 

I have to mention the calendar plugins. They are on the right side of the calendar, and with two clicks, you can add a Bible verse, a to-do checklist, a grocery list, and my favorite, the weather! I’m always saying, “Let me check the weather.” (It’s a joke in our family .)

The reporting is a lifesaver. You know the pain if you’ve ever had to type up a high school transcript from scratch. I had to go back through paper planners and grade books and gather everything for one of our high school transcripts. (Extra tricky because we had gone through two moves in three years.) Homeschool Planet reports include grading, assignments, and transcripts.

The price is super-reasonable and affordable.   

Homeschool Planet Review – Lesson Planning Done for You

If you are a busy homeschooling parent or like me, work and homeschool, lesson planning can be difficult. I’ll be honest, there were months, and sometimes entire school years, where our lesson plan was “open the book today and find out where we are.”

That approach causes chaos. Believe me, I know. After homeschooling for 22+ years and working both full-time and part-time (at the same time) and trying to lay out lesson plans, “winging it” day to day is stressful.

Homeschool Planet has plugin lesson plans for MANY homeschool curriculum products. No more sitting down with your planner and having to write in what pages to read, what experiment to do, what quiz to take, etc. The lesson plans that you can purchase at a very affordable price take care of all that manual planning.

One of our biggest challenges with using a paper planner or some sort of paper-based planner was that, I couldn’t get to it, so my kids would say, “I’ll figure it out.” While I was trying to get to one job or another.

Parents, these lesson plans are a game changer. Plus, they integrate right into the Homeschool Planet planner.

Just a few of the curriculum they represent in their lesson plans – BJU Press, Master Books, Rosetta Stone, Right Start, Daily Skill Building, IEW, Science Shepherd, and more.

Hop on over to Homeschool Planet and register for the free trial. Read the FAQs, watch some of the how-to videos, and browse the reviews. 

You will gain back time, sanity, and have a new tool to help organize your busy homeschool life!

As you plan your curriculum, check out our curriculum reviews:

Science Shepherd

Visual Latin

Math Mammoth
In our Homeschool Planet review, you will find out why we categorize it as more than a tool for planning out homeschool lessons, it’s a life organizing tool! If you haven’t checked out this online tool or aren’t sure about an online planner, I recommend that you do. Paper planners were always my go to,…  Read More The Homeschool Scientist 

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