As part of The Schoolhouse Review Crew, I recently received a homeschool student planner from My Student Logbook to review. My Student Logbook was designed by a homeschool mom to use with her own kids. My Student Logbook is for homeschool students in second grade and up. Each student planner is for one child for one year. My Student Logbook sells for $15., or you can purchase a PDF version that sells for $10-$20.
My Student Logbook Review
My Student Logbook is available in two versions, dated or undated. There are nine different cover options so your student can choose the one that reflects their personality best. If they like how it looks, it will motivate them to use it! I used this My Student Planner with my son 14 year old, 8th grade son, and he chose this cover.
My Student Planner includes checklist pages, the weekly planner pages, as well as additional planner pages in the back. These planner pages include All About Me, Prayers & Goals, Bible Verses Memorized, Books to Read – 3 of these, an Events, Projects, Field Trips, Presentations, Activities page – 3 of these, Test Records – 3 of these, and a Year Highlights page. These are all for the student to use. The checklist pages are the only pages that come with permission to copy.
Here’s a video that shows the inside of the My Student Planner.
My Student Planner is easy to set up. The instructions are clear and simple. You tear out the checklist page from the planner. Cut it on the line shown, fold on the folding line, wrap around a page of the planner, and tape in place.
The checklist is taped to the blank backside of a planner page. I offset the checklist in the picture below so you could see how it folds over the page.
When you turn the planner over, you place a page under the checklist flap. The lines under the flap can be used for notes by the student, or you could leave notes there for the student.
You, the teacher, fill out the checklist. There are two columns, Checklist and Time. Under Checklist, you write all the subjects, books, chores, activities, etc. that the student will be doing. The time column is used for subjects and activities that need a time. For instance, my son has to read his Bible for 30 minutes a day, and work on two different math activities for 30 minutes a day.
If you write detailed lesson plans, you will want to keep your own teacher lesson plan book. There is no room in the My Student Planner for full lesson plans. Since this planner is for the student, that’s ok!
Now the planner is ready for your student to use! You can have them write the page numbers or lesson numbers they do in the boxes each day, or simply check off the subject or activity. This will help keep your student accountable for their own work.
Their planner will show you at a glance what they have worked on, and completed. As well as what they haven’t done. Just today, by looking at his planner, I could tell that my son had skipped some handwriting pages. He hates cursive!
At the beginning of each week, you simply put another weekly planner page under the checklist flap. You can make a new checklist anytime you need it. Just leave the completed pages under the old checklist and start from that day forward with new weekly planner pages under the new checklist flap.
I love the My Student Planner because it motivates my son to get his work down. It’s not just mom telling him what to do, he can see for himself what he has to get done every day.
My son loves the My Student Planner because it’s easy to use, and it’s easy to prove to mom that his work was done!
Don’t just take our word for it, click on the graphic below to see what other Schoolhouse Review Crew members have to say about My Student Logbook.
Gina, a book dragon says
I’m not a homeschool mom but I can see this helping me with my own school work
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