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.

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.

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.

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

I am glad I had scheduled out my son's 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, my son's 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.

I wonder this also, but I want to make sure the kids are busy .

I got out our history SOTW , I just hope we can make it to Greece. I think we will just do some reading and some coloring of pages and map work, leave everything else out. Then we will do more for Ancient Greece. I bought the History Pockets for it . Now I am trying to decide if I want to do two day or three days for history. I would like to do science three days a week. Seem like there is not enough time to do both. How do you schedule your history and science?

Very poorly ... I hardly have any of it done yet ... At least I have everything purchased ... I think
Guess I better get going. We will start school on the 25th or 26th as we will have some late summer guests. This is when ps starts and we usually follow that schedule.

In looking at what I have for my daughter to do I don't really have a whole lot of planning, English is planned out, just do one lesson a day, math - same, spelling - same, history - same, vocabulary - same. I have several science and geography unit studies already planned, just need to figure out when to do them and a little refining and I'm done.
Guess I have more ready than I thought! And I know I have way more than we could ever get done planned!!!




I bought Mystery Of History for this year and I think it is similar in format to SOTW. We will either do 1 hour each of science and history everyday or 2 hours of one every other day. 1st week M W F science, T Th history; 2nd week M W F history, T Th science; and so on alternating weeks. I will probably do the 2 hr block schedule.

Clear as mud?

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

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.

Oh wait !... I've already got these planned at the dy site. I must be done then


Just have to make those chore charts now

Ya know, Carey, this is a pretty good idea. It never occurred to me to flip flop on a weekly basis (I am biting my tongue hard not to verbalize the obvious political joke here)
My boys do better w/shorter lessons, but we like to get into science a bit more. This would allow for the extra time in one subject while not getting behind in the other. THANKS!

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

WE are going to start in math and hit that pretty hard this week. and throw in the other subjects here and there. we don't have a set schedule, my son's seems to work better like this.

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 sort of schedule themselves (one lesson/day until done!)

Yes, that's a very smart idea!

I think so too!

Way to go Sheri. I was looking at our history last night and have decided to work with the SOTW and study the Jewish People. I am trying to schedule that out to start next week. This first week will be slow starting with just math, spelling, english, and science.

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

I agree!! Can someone please add more hours to my day

We start Wednesday, and I am not quite ready yet...but are we ever totally ready? I love reading how everyone is preparing though ... gives me a boost when I am getting bogged down in piles of books, and papers.

I keep my personal planner and school planner together. Otherwise I wouldn't know when to schedule anything I set up our school year in such a way that we take time off regularly so that I know when to schedule appointments and such. Of course today that didn't help since I made DS's physical before I planned and set it for today but at least I was able to get school done this morning

I am just starting to homeschool for the first time my 4th grade daughter I have a question. What is LlATL??? I hope I got that right.

It stands for "Learning Language Arts Through Literature".

Thanks a bunch, that helps a lot!!