The planner
Most homeschool planners are a blank grid and a promise that this year you will keep it up. This one starts with your weekly rhythm, builds every day from it, moves when your week moves, and turns what your kids actually did into the records your state asks for. Included in every plan, for every child on your account.
Say what a normal week looks like for each child — maths on weekday mornings, science Tuesdays and Thursdays, co-op on Wednesday. That is the last time you plan from scratch.
Tomorrow already exists. Lessons land in their slots in the right order, and where a chapter runs across several lessons they group under one heading with the count done, instead of six near-identical rows.
Drag a block, copy a day, duplicate last week, or just tell Annie: "move soccer to eleven." The rest of the week absorbs it.
Every completed lesson writes itself into the record, per child. You are not keeping two sets of books — the plan and the proof are the same thing.
Week view puts every child side by side, so you can spot the morning where three kids all need you and fix it before it happens rather than during it.
Not everything should live on a screen. The week prints, and so do the maths packets, for families who want the day on the table instead of in a tab.
The planning is not the hard part. Keeping the plan honest is. Every family starts September with a beautiful grid and by November it describes a week that is not happening any more — so you stop looking at it, and then you are carrying the whole year in your head again.
That is the actual problem this solves. The plan updates itself from what really happened, so it stays true without you maintaining it. A missed Tuesday is absorbed rather than becoming a guilt-shaped hole, and the record at the end of the year is what your kids did, not what you meant for them to do.
No. You set a weekly rhythm once — which subjects happen on which days, at roughly what time — and every day builds itself from that. You open the planner to see what is already there, not to fill in a blank page.
Nothing breaks. A missed day does not leave a hole you have to manually shuffle: the plan re-paces around it, and work that did not happen is still there waiting rather than silently lost. Homeschooling has sick days, appointments and bad mornings, and a planner that punishes you for them is a planner you stop opening.
Yes. Every child has their own rhythm and their own day, and the week view shows them together so you can see the whole household at a glance — including when two kids need you in the same slot, which is the collision most families are actually trying to avoid.
Yes. A book you bring in is scheduled exactly like a course we wrote — same planner, same daily blocks, same records. You send us the book's table of contents, we turn it into real lessons, and those lessons flow into your week.
Yes, and this is the part most planners miss. Your records build themselves from what your kids actually did rather than from what you intended — so at the end of the year you are printing something true, not reconstructing it from memory.
It is included in every Homeschool Factory subscription, along with the curriculum, the subject tutors, and state compliance. There is no separate planner fee and no per-child charge for it.
Nine complete curricula we wrote ourselves, Kindergarten through Grade 12 — Math, Science, Computer Science, Grammar, Vocabulary, Social Studies, Logic & Critical Thinking, Personal Finance and Chess — plus any book you already own.
Set the rhythm once and let the days build themselves.