I'm looking for a schedule. I want it to be bright and colorful. I want it to be set up like: School time. Chore time. Play time. Etc. I tried Googling and looking on Pinterest and found approximately 497,000 different ones. Just wondering if anyone used something like this before I try to make my own? Thanks!
No schedule here. If something needs cleaning, we clean it. There is no set time for chores. If it can wait until after school, it waits. If it is easier to complete before school, then it is done in the morning. If it is something that has to be cleaned now, it is done now. If a good walk at the lake is needed, we take off for the walk. If a movie is playing at noon at the $1 show that we want to watch, then we head out to watch the movie. "School" is supplementary to our life. It isn't life. Therefore, it revolves around life, not life around school. I would go nuts with a schedule.
I just have a schedule for school. After school is chore time and after chore time is playtime, although my youngest has play times during the school day. It is a bit crazy, but here is my school schedule: http://eclectic-homeschool.blogspot.ca/2013/07/our-crazy-schedule.html I hope it works. We start on Monday.
My schedule is: Get up Eat Breakfast Do school until lunch Eat lunch Do school until you're done :lol::lol::lol:
The more I try to be organized, the worse I am. I try to keep a basic schedule such as we do math and reading daily, spelling MWF, grammar TTH, history MW, science TTH, geography F, PE/health MWF, art T, music TH... but if that doesn't happen no big deal. I don't even plan things out ahead of time saying we will do this on this day, that on that one. It just makes me CRAZY if we have an off day and "fall behind".
I made ours in excel and gave each kid a color and blended colors for things they do together. IE one kid is read the other kid is blue...things together are purple. This is from a few years ago when we used a different curriculum but this is how I start off each year by making the color coded schedule. I have 4 kiddos and this just makes life easier.
The four I have now for the fall are so vastly different that I have not a clue what kind of schedule I'll come up with. It's one of those things I have to learn all new every fall -- who needs what when? I think my 3 youngers might end up to be half a year out of sync with each other. Niece starting 3, DGS at 2.5, and possibly new boy beginning 2. >sigh< I won't know until I can give the two new kids some placement tests....
I'm not much of a schedule person. But it has been two years since we have homeschooled. The boys are older now and I may need to be more scheduled than we used to be. But one of the things I missed the most when the boys were at school was being able to set or our schedule and do things at out own pace. I will just have to see how this year goes and what works for us now.
This is how I always feel. That's why I'm hoping if I write down a schedule, we will have some semblance of sanity.
We don't really schedule, either. Life comes first and school comes second. If nothing's going on, we start school after breakfast and go until we finish (with breaks of course). If something's going on, we fit school in whenever we can. We wreck the house all day and then clean it up in a mad dash right before dh gets home from work. :lol:
I have never been one for a schedule but with my oldest in 7th grade this year my dh said we needed a schedule to keep him on track and make sure he is learning what he needs. I agreed so....this year I made a schedule and so far I actually LIKE having one! I never thought I would! Our schedule looks like this: 9:00 Math 10:00 Scripture study 10:30 History or Science depending on the day 11:30 Writing 12:00 Lunch 12:30 Latin or Music depending on the day 1:00 Grammar 1:30 Spelling or Logic depending on the day 2:00 Language Arts 2:30 Reading 3:00 US History or Keyboarding for my oldest depending on the day We don't always stick to a strict schedule time wise, ie: if they get their math done in 30 minutes instead of the planned hour they get a 30 minute break OR they can choose to move on to the next subject. Any subject we do all together (Science, History, Latin, Music, & Scriptures study) usually gets done at the times set aside. Everything else we have more flexibility with. I don't have a lot of leeway for the combined subjects because the times I set aside for them are the times I can occupy my toddler and preschooler and put the baby down for a nap. You can check out my blog in my sig. I made a post recently about our schooling. There are days we throw the schedule out the window and just do what can be done for the day but we have been able to stay on track weekly so far and I like that. We usually don't get far behind.
I do agree that more organization (however that is for you!) becomes more important as they get older! But I might suggest that, as they get older, that the scheduling should gradually fall more on THEIR shoulders. Of course, that does depend on the maturity of the young person, but the desire is to create independent life-long learners.
OMG this makes me twitch! A schedule like this (scheduled to the 1/2 hr) would completely stress me out. I can't even get a week planned without it going by the wayside. I tried to do it this way when we first started homeschooling but it just didn't work. We are more of a wing-it type family. My daughters have a logbook, and we work by numbered days, (total of 180) and not by M-F. It works for us.
