Did some scheduling last night. Options

[Appliejuice]

Last night I stayed up to 2:30am scheduling the boy's english, latin, and spelling. I used Donna's one subject planners in MSword. My hope is to copy and paste these onto the weekly schedules.

At 2:00am I thought I was getting my second wind, so I decided to make bookmarkers for the first two lessons of spelling. At 2:30am I thought they looked really great. Nice and big for a fifth grader. Now that I have had some sleep, I can see that they are REALLY huge and I forgot to put the lesson number on there. Good thing I only did two.

I am so excited to have this done. Now I have to do history, math, and the study of The Twenty-One Balloons book. Actually the book is almost done on paper, just need to type it up. Science I will probably just write out every other week or so.

Next I have to schedule my daughter's stuff. I have already done the LLATL and that one is the hardest. History and Science will be about the same as the boy's.

For Art I bought Art with A Purpose by Myron and Rachel Weaver. That will be easy to write out on just the weekly. One lesson per week . Last year we did the lessons on Donna's site, but I think dd#1 was a little young for it. The boy needs to do something for this year, but I don't know what. He really needs help .

Now I have to go to the Computer forum and ask how to make bookmarkers on landscape .

How are you doing on the scheduling.

[JanetP]

We have our plans in place for our Olympics study. That will take us through the next few weeks. We also have reading and science figured out for a while. I need to look at the math books again. Since we use a program designed for classrooms that tends to be the subject that needs the most prep work. I do like to have a couple of weeks worth ready at a time.

We will know our "official" start date next week. Although we've been started for some time, we will "start" the same day the girl across the street starts Kindergarten. There are so many K's in our district that they start them on 2 different days.

I guess I've done more than it feels like.

[Michelle]

I am doing well with my planning...have all 4 kids math, science, some english, music, computer, done. At least about 6 weeks worth done. I have the over all done though.

I am wondering though...when it comes time to schedule the actual days, if I will find I have more happening than there is time to do them?

I still have several more to do yet, which I hope to finish today or tomorrow...then take a couple days for all the worksheets etc needed during that time frame, and file them.

THEN I should be able to keep up with it. Every week just add to my schedule and files of supporting material.

[Donna]

That's great that you have gotten so much done!!

We've already started school but I still have to plan my daughter's history and health

[Appliejuice]

I am glad I had scheduled out ds English, Spelling and Latin last night. This morning I got out his book The Twenty-One Balloons (Total Language Plus), and found that it would be way to much for him to do while doing spelling, latin and english. I have decided to wait until we are done with the English and Latin. If we keep on schedule, ds should finish these two about six weeks before end of school. Which will be a perfect time to do the book; it is a five week study.

[CareyJ]

[CareyJ]

Oh yea, I forgot music and art
guess I'd better start and figure it out

[AKHomemom]

I'm having to do a bit of tweaking to the schedule that I finished out the end of July. Things happened this week and I realized that I was having us do more than we could do a day. So I'm reworking and scheduling a day to catchup each week. It will probably be Fridays as that's the day we go to the library and may also have coop day then as well.

Still playing things by ear.

[Donna]

[Sherinova]

[Michelle]

While we are doing our lesson scheduling, is anyone also planning the chores, or updating our personal planner books, with financial sheets, menus, etc? I want to...I love starting the new year out fresh.

[Donna]

I need to. When I got my new computer, I started using Outlook for my planner, but then I noticed that I was less likely to check it. Of course when I lost my data, I lost Outlook data too. I'm going to go back to using my half-sized planner, it sits on my desk anyway and before, I seemed to always manage to keep it up.

[Appliejuice]

I usually update my planner just after Christmas. My school planner is different, it is updated in June or July. I am currently working on chores, which is not fun. I really need to do menus. That is one tough area for me. My kids do not like what I fix. .

I use the half size planners, some are from Donna. I kept my planner book on the computers bookshelf, but would not keep up with it. Two weeks ago I went to Target and bought a red (I like red ya know ) cookbook stand. My planner fits perfectly in it and is now open to the month on the counter.

[Michelle]

I like the stand idea! Maybe I would use mine more if I did this. ....hmmm.....now where is a spot that I can put a stand....

[shelbygt]

WE are going to start in math and hit that pretty hard this week. and throw in the other subjects here and there. we dont have a set schedule, ds seems to work better like this.

[Sherinova]

for this motivating conversation. I actually planned out the next 8 weeks of our ancient Rome study w/SOTW last night. I think that's pretty much all I have left to plan out for now. Grammar, Math, Spelling, and Handwriting sorta schedule themselves (one lesson/day 'til done!)

[kpmom]

[Donna]

I think so too!

[Appliejuice]

[kpmom]

I've been going over things this past week I'd like to cover daily with ds, and I've come to the conclusion there just ain't enough hours in the day!!