My 2017 {Printable} Planner ... ❤
January 01, 2017
Hello my friends and Happy New Year! I hope your 2017 is off to a great start! ❤
I hope to have my "New Year's Tea" up soon, but today - without a moment to spare! - I'm getting my planning sheets posted in case anyone is interested in using them. A bit of a caveat though - while I do have ALL the sheets finished, it's taking me a bit of time to upload them as PDF files here at the blog. So this post will have to be a work in progress! Today I will post all the January planning sheets and then, as I can - and as quickly as I can - I will upload the rest of the months. :)
(Design notes at the bottom of the post!)
January:
January 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
January Home Learning Worksheet
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February:
February 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
February Home Learning Worksheet
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March:
March 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
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April:
April 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
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May:
May 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
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June:
June 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
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July:
July 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
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August:
August 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
August Home Learning Worksheet
September:
September 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
September Home Learning Worksheet
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October:
October 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
October Home Learning Worksheet
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November:
November 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
November Home Learning Worksheet
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December:
December 2017 Month-at-a-Glance; (liturgical version)
December Home Learning Worksheet
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A few notes about this year's planning sheets:
❤ They're pretty much the same as last year's sheets (with corrected dates of course) but without any graphics. That vintage clipart was pretty, but it really bogged down the creative process - and printing time!
❤ That said, I do have a Cover Page for each month with a bit of vintage calendar clipart found on Pinterest. (Which is, to the best of my knowledge, free for personal use.)
❤ I've added soft lines to the planning sections! Woohoo - I LOVE writing on lined paper!
❤ I increased the Meal Planning section - a friendly suggestion from a dear reader that made perfect sense!
❤ I added a few new pages:
° a Monthly Overview page (To-Dos, House & Garden, Seasonal Ideas, Monthly Goals) ...
° a Monthly Review page (open, lined space) ...
° AND a one page Month-at-a-Glance Calendar, too! Now, in the version I'm sharing here, in order to keep it as user-friendly as possible, I took out my family birthdays (graduations, anniversaries, etc.) as well as notes related to my Catholic faith. (If there is interest, I could create an additional set of calendars that includes feast days. I used lavender for that particular text.)
Note: I'm adding a liturgical version of the monthly calendar but please understand, this is in no way a complete representation of the Catholic calendar! Just reflective of the events and feasts we note/observe/celebrate in our family - these are marked in purple text. (Natural phenomena are in green, holidays and other events are in blue.)
OH! And also, on three of the monthly calendars I had to double up on a block. For example, in April, a sixth row would have been needed for the last day of the month - Sunday, April 30th - so I just added the date to the block for the 23rd. I meant to divide that block in half with a diagonal line but couldn't figure out how to do it! Time ran out and I left it as is. I just used a ruler after printing to make the line myself! This issue crops up in July and December as well.
❤ In my own Home Learning Worksheet, I have three separate boxes for my current students' goals. Three of my boys are homeschooling - one is a senior in college! For the sheet I shared, I kept it to one column since you all have various numbers of children! :) *Apologies - there is a second blank page attached to this PDF and I just realized it now! I will try to tweak the original and delete that extraneous sheet!)
❤ Instead of the aforementioned clipart and "grace notes" I chose a seasonal quote to reflect each week's place in the year.
❤ The colors are pretty subtle, but do change with each month. I coordinated them with my favorite scrapbooking paper which I use as dividers in my planner.
Now, in a separate post I will describe how I transform these sheets into an actual planner, and what my maintenance process looks like. But right now I'm trying to decide between keeping them in a three-ring binder or having them spiral-bound at the copy shop. I'm leaning toward the binder since I don't really plan to take this planner out of the house. But I'll get into those decisions and my planner "management" in a future post!
(Oh, and the spiral-bound notebook you see to the right in the photo above is a companion "agenda" to my weekly planning sheets. Something with time slots for appointments and such. That too is still very much a work in progress but will probably turn out something like the one I used last year. But with tweaks! Always with the tweaks ...)
Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their New Year's Day and I thank you all for stopping by. Please let me know if you have any questions about my planning sheets or if for some reason the links don't work for you. I'm really excited to share these sheets and hope they are helpful to some of you!
Take care of yourselves and your loved ones and I will see you here again very soon!