Montessori Planning Card System™
The easiest way to feel organized and ready every week!
The Montessori Planning Card System™ turns your entire homeschool curriculum into an easy-to-use, beautifully organized tool you can hold in your hands. Planning just got a whole lot simpler and a lot more fun!
What Are Montessori Planning Cards?
Planning your homeschool week can be one of the most time-consuming and emotionally draining parts of homeschooling unless you have a system that makes it playful, practical, and empowering. We believe that planning should be a time you look forward to every week.
The Montessori Planning Card System™ takes the entire Child of the Redwoods curriculum and breaks it into bite-sized, parent-friendly tools. It helps you focus, prioritize, and stay organized without drowning in to-do lists or sticky notes.
All you need is a printer and an index card box.
How to Use Your Montessori Planning Cards
Choose
1
Start each week with one Theme of the Month card, and then pick up to four Foundation cards. Not sure what to choose? Don’t worry, we give guidance for every child’s age.
Teach
2
Use your cards to guide your week. Each one corresponds to a specific foundational lesson. Pull up step-by-step support in the Lesson Explorer, or follow the script on the printable guides.
Track
3
At the end of the week, check off the lessons you completed. Reuse favorites, rotate new ones in, or retire lessons that no longer serve your child’s needs. Easy.
With six clearly defined levels, you’ll focus on just one level at a time, keeping your homeschool planning simple and stress-free. Each set of cards covers every subject area — from Math and Reading to Grammar, Practical Life, and more — giving you a complete Montessori-based homeschool planning system that works for multiple ages. If you have more than one child, we recommend printing a set for each, and because they are a digital resource, it’s easy to do that!
The cards themselves are short, specific, and focused, making it easy to customize your weekly lessons around your child’s unique interests and developmental needs.
Your New Favorite Homeschool Ritual
What You'll Need
A color printer (or send them to a copy center)
A standard index card box
Some scissors or a paper cutter
That’s it. You get a joyful, tactile system to help you plan your week in five minutes flat.
If you have been using a planning method that made you feel like you were too tired to actually do the lessons after spending so much time bogged down with the planning, you are going to love this!
Planning shouldn’t feel like homework; with the Montessori Planning Cards from Child of the Redwoods, it becomes a calming ritual you can look forward to. Grab a cup of tea, settle in, and enjoy working with your new favorite Montessori planning tool.
The Peace of a Plan
Sweet friend, you deserve to feel calm, capable, and prepared.
Planning doesn't have to be a burden. With the Montessori Planning Card System™, you can:
Save time
Feel organized
Follow your child with intention
Make planning a joyful part of your week!