One family, several children, one week

Homeschool Lesson Plan Templates

Homeschool planning is a planner problem, not a lesson-plan problem: several children, one parent, a morning time everyone shares, subjects that are not daily, and in some states a count of days or hours to keep. The weekly planner has together time, a column per child and a loop column; the log has 180 dated boxes and an hours table with the columns the hours-counting states want. The in-browser homeschool planner builds a subjects-by-days grid for one child.

The week, and the record

2 homeschool templates

Landscape homeschool weekly planner with Monday to Friday rows, a together column, three child columns and a loop column, and three boxes beneath for loop subjects, attendance and supplies

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Homeschool Weekly Planner — Word & Google Docs

Days down the side; together time, a column per child and a loop column across; boxes for the loop list, the week's attendance and hours, and supplies.

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Homeschool Weekly Planner — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Two-page homeschool log: a twelve-by-fifteen grid of 180 attendance boxes with a notes box, then a 22-row hours table with subject, core, location and hours columns and totals boxes

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Homeschool Attendance & Hours Log — Word & Google Docs

Page one is 180 dated boxes; page two an hours log with subject, core or non-core, home or away, and totals — the columns the hours-counting states ask for.

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Homeschool Attendance & Hours Log — fillable PDF

2 pages, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the homeschool templates

School lesson plans assume one teacher, one class, one subject at a time; a homeschool day is one parent moving between a first grader and a seventh grader with a toddler underfoot. The weekly planner is shaped for that: days down the side, a together column for morning time or the read-aloud, a column per child for their own work, and a loop column for the subjects that happen when they happen — nature study, art, the history read-aloud — rather than every Tuesday. The loop box at the foot keeps the list so nothing gets lost.

The attendance and hours log is the half that depends on where you live. About half the states ask for nothing; the rest want days (often 180), hours (Missouri's 1,000, split into core and non-core and partly at home, is the reason the log has a location column), a portfolio, or a quarterly report. The log has 180 boxes to date as days are completed, an hours table with subject, core or non-core, home or away and hours, and a portfolio line, with a note that the rule is yours to check and changes.

Questions teachers ask

Homeschool lesson plans, answered

How many children does the planner hold?

Three child columns plus together time and loop; a fourth child fits by renaming the loop column in Word or Google Docs, or by using the together column for the youngest. Families with five or more usually keep one planner per two children.

What is a loop schedule?

A list of subjects you do in order, one or two per day, picking up where you left off instead of assigning each to a weekday. It is how homeschoolers keep the non-daily subjects from vanishing when a day goes sideways. The loop column on the planner holds what you reached that day; the box at the foot holds the list.

Does my state require this log?

Maybe. States differ on whether they count days, hours, both or neither, and on portfolios and testing, and the rules change. The log covers the common requirements so that whichever yours is, you have the record; the header has a line to write your state's requirement so the person using the sheet knows what they are counting toward.