I'm really starting to get that "itch"! I don't know why exactly. I have about 90% of our texts already and I'm raring to get started.

I'm one of these people who likes to have everything done WAY before I'm supposed too. LOL!

Yes we're doing AO and gathering books for yrs 4 and 5.

I love to plan, and replan, and then plan some more . . . . and how much actually gets done?

love to plan, and replan, and then plan some more . . . . and how much actually gets done?

Boy does this sound familiar

This is why I started using pencils. I'm wondering if my hubby can make a program that I can type in our weeks schedule and hit delete when I need to change something and print it out at the end of the week to put in my notebook.

I just bought a book for next year ... I found it on Ebay yesterday and decided to get it before it was gone! Who HOO!

I love to make planning sheets! I've made all kinds of basic sheets using Word and the table function. Now, if I would just implement all of the planning!

This is what I did (as mentioned earlier) using Word. I made a template with days across the top and subjects down the side. At the beginning of each week I type in my girls' assignments and then print out a sheet for each of them with duplicate copies for me. Then they just check off each thing as they get it done. I use my sheet as a reminder of what work of theirs I need to check. It also contains the books that I need to read aloud to them. I LOVE making up these sheets. Silly, aren't I?

Yes I am planning for next year, but the planning is also becoming the "prayfer" list, since we don't have money yet to buy the materials needed!!! So I will plan and pray and plan and pray ...

Someday's I need a checklist to do the checklist. And some days we do really great and finish quickly and I feel we forgot something So I double check.

And tell them you guys are to good. Your finished for the day and its 1:00.

I love days like that.

I understand all of you alls comments so much. Plan and replan--rethink--reschdule and not much actually gets done.

I have just bought the Office in A Bag from FLYLADY and starting to get "organized" (see my top comment) and i was up late last night printing forms off donnayoung-disk and the web pages. To get my life organized. . . still adding to the calendar all my "bills" to be paid on which date--helps me in seeing it all on one page--instead of digging thru piles and piles of envelopes and such. Dr appointments for the kids----and bday/anniv for family. Hoping this time it will work.

Keep up the good work. . .striving for my organization to work on bills, home, and HS.

That is so funny! I love to plan and research and plan, but when it comes down to actually doing the stuff... well thats another story. I wish I wasn't like that though. I need a job planning for other people, that way I can do what I love but not have to do the "other" work, LOL

I can't wait to go to a homeschool convention this year to start planning for next year. The first year I went, we weren't actually homeschool yet (needless to say--I wa overwhelmed!). So now I get to go with some sort of experience under my belt and I know exactly what I am looking for!

I'm a dreamer - I'm always planning something! Yes, I've already started making schedules that I won't follow for '05-'06, and I'm having lots of fun doing it! I figure if I get half as much accomplished as what's in my planning notebooks I'll be a winner.

Boy am I glad to hear I'm not the only one! Dh thinks I've lost my mind when I start planning so early.

I also love to make planning sheets. It's fun!

I thought it was just me.. lol. So glad to see I'm not alone!

I already have 50% of next year's books and supplies, I think. I also love the planning phase since it is so full of possibilities.

I have a list for each child and keep looking on my swap boards to pick up what I can second hand. It has been working well that way.

Oh yes, I was at a stuck point ... not in resources, not in living each day with my children ... but with conforming to the rigours of providing a portfolio for each child and daily maintaining our planner. seemingly after the facts.

I've come to the conclusion this past week ~I need to redo our mission statement for our home; and provide a new statement of intent for each child. This has helped immensely in my refocus.

I havent got the itch yet. That usually happens in July/Aug for me, but I do try to keep an eye out for bargains at booksells and flea markets. I love when school supplies go on sale during that time too.

Guess I am too wrapped up on trying to finish up this years schooling plus coop is going to start soon so I have to get that all planned for my K class. Thats so wonderful that y'all are planning ahead. I dont do it till last min ;p though I am trying to organize my movie unit studys to put on my web site so I can better find when my son is old enough to use.

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Just make a table in word make it look like a lesson plan book page and put in what you PLAN to do print it and then make changes as they hapen before you print a copy to FILE with what actually got done.

I want to get started planning too, but first I have to get this years stuff ready for review! and on top of all of that we will be moving soon.
I have said that once we move we will start again, but the other day I bought a summer book getting ready for 3rd grade so we might start that now.

I'm starting to get that itch.
I just love planning ... ... It's the implementation of my plans that is the trouble.

Well, my itch has been stalled by other stuff happening. But I am trying to move ahead on that. Since we will be schooling year round, we'll just kind of blend one year into the next. We'll just take a break here and there to let me regroup. But I bought this new curriculum--Blaise mentioned it in a post somewhere--and I really like it. It's Robinson Curriculum, and then I also got Accelerated Achievement which is similar but has a little more of the language arts.
But I'm really excited to get going on it.

I USE to quilt ... before homeschooling... I picked this name out a REALLY long time ago!

I have finished a few projects since starting...but very few ...

You're welcome... glad to help ... my hubby is gone...suffering for his nation in Paris... I need to talk to someone ... you all just happen to be close by ...

I had the itch scratched it and am now ready for everything. I love buying new books. so when the opportunity arises I stand at attention.

By the way... had to share...

I posted above at 8:46 pm...according to the clock on this web site, that I was going to go plan my son's math lessons. I also chatted with you all a bit...
Granted I am copying a lesson plan from the year we are finishing and reordering it ... but I am now DONE with planning 155 lessons (an entire year's worth of assignments) ... look at the time this post was done...

Had to spark your interest! In the beginning data input is a lot of work and time consuming ... I've been using this 1 1/2 years ... but it gets easier and faster with the tools this program offers!

Thanks I will check it out tomorrow morning saved the site url already though

I'm not itching, but I am planning ...

I feel rather burnt out on so many different levels ... and it just doesn't seem to stop ...

I think the problem is that, so many of us are Type A and we can't stand not doing something.

I think that we should all have down time, when we aren't accomplishing a thing, but taking care of ourselves. Even for an hour or two. We are worth it!

It is certainly okay to plan a week, without anything urgently being cleaned, sorted or planned.

<OMG, did I say that!>

I'm still just in the thinking about it stage, which is bad because I'm such a procrastinator. That's probably one of the main cons to my homeschooling, it's just so easy to put whatever off until tomorrow. We started Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons when Dd6 was 4 (she is a December baby, so all her friends were in K), and we've now done a total of maybe 20 lessons. The good news is she has learned to read anyway, but really, I am so pathetic! I'm thinking about doing Ambleside Online, but I am going to HAVE to stick to some kind of schedule or I am going to drown in a major way!!!