Printable weekly planner

Splitting the day into three is what makes the sheet usable by the child rather than only by the adult who wrote it. "Math" somewhere on Tuesday is a plan only the planner can read; "math" in Tuesday morning answers the question a seven-year-old asks four times a day, and answers it without anybody being interrupted. Pin it at their height rather than filing it.

The three columns are named rather than fixed. A family that works in periods, or in blocks named after the people teaching them, can put their own headings across the top in the builder and get the same grid — and a week whose columns are "before lunch" and "after lunch" is a perfectly good week. What stays fixed is the seven rows, because a week is seven days whatever the columns are called.

Every rule, every box and every cut line on the page above is drawn as ink rather than as a background color, which is why it comes out of the printer looking like it does on screen: browsers throw background paint away unless somebody has ticked Background graphics, and a page of cut guides that printed invisibly is a page somebody cuts freehand. The lengths are in inches for a plainer reason still — a card that says it is three and three quarter inches wide is going to be measured, and a die that is not square does not fold up. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from, so the identical sheet can be had again next term.

This page is one sheet out of four families that between them print the forms, the week, the paper that gets cut up and the two things that are objects rather than pages. How many rows a chart has, how many cards there are to a page, how much room each answer gets, which verse is on it and whether a tag folds are all settings — so a chore chart with six rows, or a dated calendar for next March, is the same sheet with one control moved rather than a page somebody has to have written first.

The settings travel in the link rather than on a server, so a sheet you make can be bookmarked or sent to another family as it stands — and the Name: line, where a sheet has one, is printed blank, because there is nowhere in a shared link to put a child’s name. See what we don’t collect.