Plan your homeschool with purpose—from the big picture to the details of each week.
The Nurturing Connections Bucket Planning System is a flexible, intentional planning system designed to help you organize your homeschool, keep track of what matters, and plan with your unique children and family in mind.
Rather than simply filling in a schedule, the Bucket Planning System walks you through the process of defining your vision, setting meaningful goals, planning your year, and bringing it all together week by week. Use the pieces that work best for your family in this season of homeschooling.
This PDF system includes:
- Set-Up Guide: A step-by-step guide to setting up your system and choosing the tools that work best for your family and your current season of homeschooling.
- Vision Planning: Thoughtful prompts and questions to help you clarify your homeschool vision and record your Mission Statement.
- The Big Picture: 30+ pages of objectives and inspiration to help you look ahead, organize your priorities, track progress, and plan for the years to come.
- Yearly Planning: Set meaningful goals for each child, identify areas that need additional support, nurture strengths, create curriculum and resource wishlists, track your budget and attendance, and more.
- Term Planning: Record field trips, events, and extracurricular activities on monthly planning pages, then choose what you want to focus on each term. Track your progress along the way and reflect at the end of each term.
- Weekly Planning: Bring your homeschool to life with flexible weekly lesson-planning pages. Begin each week with a Weekly Focus to record materials, prayer, Scripture, and areas where you want to be intentional. Then reflect throughout the week with gratitude prompts. Multiple lesson-plan formats and independent student checklists make implementation simple and flexible.
- BONUS – Homeschool Mom Personal Planning: Plan for yourself, too, with personal planning tools designed to help you intentionally cultivate the areas that matter most in your own life.
The Bucket Planning System helps you step back, see the whole picture, and then bring your homeschool vision into your everyday life—one term, one week, and one child at a time.
This is a PDF download for Grades 1–12.
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