Getting Organized with a Student Planner – My Student Logbook Review

My Student Logbooks are simple to use and easy to set up student planners designed for 2nd graders and up.  They have a lovely assortment of covers when you purchase the spiral-bound planner – we chose Butterflies as our cover. But there are some great choices for boys too like dinosaurs and jets as well as some any gender ones like planetarium and jungle.  My daughter liked the butterfly cover and liked that she had her own planner from the minute we got it out to use.

It takes a little bit to set up for initial use but the directions are easy to understand and there is even a video on their website to assist if you are more of a visual learner (or just don’t like to read directions). You have the option to purchase a dated planner or a blank, undated planner. We chose the dated planner. There are several options available when purchasing the My Student Logbook: you can choose predated August 1 through July 31, seven days a week labeled Monday through Sunday, predated  January 1 through December 31 with seven dates a week labeled Monday through Sunday or you can choose undated with seven columns for you to customize any way you prefer.

After following the easy to understand directions we set up our planner and got to work.

I LOVE checklist. There are few things as satisfying as a list completed with all the items checked off as complete. That is one of the appeal of this planner to me. What I learned is that my daughter does not mind an unchecked box but….that being said, the planner was great for her to use. She felt independent and we didn’t have any misunderstanding on what needed to be completed each day. This is always something that has been an issue for us so having everything in one place made this simple.

Though My Student Logbook are intended for school use, really any task can be added to a students Logbook. Therefore, I chose to weekly chores to the bottom of our Logbook so that these things were checked off as well. That way, if the question of whether she could head out to play was asked, I could simply ask if everything was checked off in her planner. This helped us as well.

One of the cool features of the planner was that, in addition to the checklist on top where you could right the task or subject and the time, the flap easily lifts up for notes. How awesome to be able to write notes for each subject like how many chapters to read or which lesson to complete. This caused an issue at first because my daughter would forget to lift the flap but once she got in the habit, it was great.

In addition to the planning pages, there are pages for All About Me, Prayers and Goals, Bible Verses Memorized, Events, project, Field Trips, Presentation, Activities,  Test Records, and Books Read. There is even a section on how to create high school transcripts using the My Student Logbook

You can purchase My Student Logbook in hard copy of pdf file formats.  The hard copy My Student Logbooks are $15 and you have your choice of cover design and the dated or undated options previously mentioned; it comes with a clear plastic cover and backing making it fairly durable. You can purchase the pdf file for $10 for a single use license, or $20 for a family use license.

Overall we loved the My Student Logbook and plan to continue to organize our day with it. I look forward to continuing to keep us organized with this great student planner.

Be sure to check out the My Student Logbook website or visit them on Facebook or YouTube.

Click below to read how the other TOS Crew members used their My Student Logbook.