Homeschool Planet is an online platform tailored for homeschooling families. It offers a Lesson Plan Marketplace with thousands of ready-made schedules and tools for easy planning.
Most homeschool families report completing core academic subjects in 3-4 hours per day for elementary students, compared to the 6-7 hours typical of traditional schools, due to the one-on-one instruction and absence of classroom management overhead (NHERI, 2024). According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), approximately 3.3 million students were homeschooled in the United States as of 2023, representing roughly 6% of the school-age population.
What is homeschool planet?
Homeschool Planet is a planning and scheduling tool made just for homeschool families. One of its best features is the Lesson Plan Marketplace. Here, you'll find over 3,100 ready-made schedules from well-known publishers like Saxon, Apologia, Memoria Press, and BJU Press. Instead of typing in every assignment, you can buy a digital schedule that fills your calendar with a whole year of lessons. It’s not just for school—it helps manage your entire family’s schedule.
The lesson plan marketplace
The Lesson Plan Marketplace is a big draw for many families. Instead of spending hours entering lessons by hand, you can buy a digital schedule for your curriculum, usually priced between $5.95 and $14.95. This schedule automatically fills your planner. You can find plans for popular curricula like Veritas Press, Notgrass History, Math-U-See, IEW, and many others. Each plan includes all assignments for the year, and some premium options even have web links and printable PDFs. New schedules are added every month as more publishers join up.
Intelligent scheduling
Homeschool Planet’s scheduling system understands that homeschooling doesn’t always go as planned. If you don’t finish assignments, you can easily move them to another day, week, or even the next school year. You can drag and drop tasks on your calendar, and it recalculates automatically. Plus, you can create custom schedules based around semesters or terms, with automatic calculations for school days.
Beyond school planning
While many families use Homeschool Planet for lesson planning, it’s also a full family calendar. You can track sports practices, doctor appointments, music lessons, and chores next to schoolwork. Each family member can log in separately, with parents seeing everything and students only seeing their tasks. It sends email and text reminders to keep everyone on track, and it syncs with your regular calendar apps.
The bottom line
For families using popular curricula, Homeschool Planet saves a lot of time. The $84.95 annual subscription quickly pays for itself with all the planning hours you save, especially if you’re using multiple curriculum schedules. It’s ideal for families looking for organized planning with professional support. However, if you prefer to create your own custom curricula or use less common resources, the marketplace benefit lessens. But don’t worry—the planning tools are still very solid.
