Play-based planning, documentation, standards tracking, and circle time saves in one place. Built for teachers who lead with play and are done forcing their week into a planner made for worksheets.

Let me guess how your morning went.

Isaiah needs his coat on. Two kids are already at the rug. Someone is crying about a block. You have about four seconds of dead air before the whole group unravels, and you need a transition song right now. Your brain goes completely blank.

Every planner on the market was built for a classroom that runs on ditto sheets, rigid centers, and "everybody do the same craft." If you are here, that is not your room! Your room runs on play, on schemas, on real moments you have to catch before they disappear. So you have been duct-taping it together. A planner for the boxes, sticky notes for the songs, a separate binder for documentation, a standards PDF you keep meaning to turn into a tracker, your memory for everything else.

The Play Planner pulls all of it into one place.

This one was built with you, not for a version of you that existed yeas ago in your traditional teaching days.

We ran a focus group with real early childhood teachers and asked what they actually needed on the page. Big writing blocks per content area. The play schemas up front for quick reference. A spot for daily observations. Reflection prompts. Circle time songs on demand. Somewhere to catch the connection moments that matter more than the craft. Every one of those is in here, because a teacher asked for it.

Here is everything inside:

• UNDATED (you can purchase The Play Planner any time of year and start with it right away) Weekly and daily play-based lesson plan page templates with room for centers, circle time, morning check-in, storytime, and any other area in your classroom environment that you want to plan ahead of time!
• Monthly at-a-glance so you see the whole month without flipping backward
• Circle time and transition song suggestions, so you are never standing there blanking on "what's the song"
• Play data and documentation sheets that let you capture learning as it happens in real play, tied to what you see, what you hear, and the standards showing up
• an on-demand training on documentation (led by Kristen) as well as a library of documentation resources
• Play schemas play stages reference right up front for fast, confident observation
• a digital play magazine that covers what play is, the play stages, play schema, a DAP circle time, becoming a play detective, a slow start to the day and more!
• a 1.5 hour, pre-recorded workshop with PD certificate led by Kristen Day and Jocelyn Manzanarez about reverse lesson planning, DAP circle times, documentation and assessments aligned to state early learning benchmarks
• And the best one - We created a standards tracker for every state and a conference snapshot for when you are meeting with parents.

Every state. Every set of guidelines. Already done for you.

More countries coming soon!

The Play Planner includes a growing bank of every state's early learning guidelines, built into ready-to-use tracker form. Find your state, and your full standards tracker is already there. No copying language out of a 200-page PDF. No formatting your own grid at 9pm. No wondering if you missed a domain.

Document play, match it to your state's standards, and walk into conferences and licensing visits with proof already in hand. This alone is worth the price of the whole planner.

This is going to change your days!!

When teaching goes passive, learning goes passive right along with it. A planner that makes you jump through five tabs and three binders pulls you out of the room and away from the kids. This keeps you in it. Plan intentionally, document in real time, track standards without the busywork, and run circle time like the go-to you already are. It brings fresh value to the thing you touch every single day.

This is a total tool that you will use all year and not something you will only crack open one time!