So, this is my first year of actually putting together a school schedule. For the last couple of years I have used the Brightly Beaming Infant/Toddler curriculum, picking and choosing bits and pieces, and doing it when we both felt like it. This year I want to use a little bit from there and some of my own things and ideas. DD loves to play school and is super excited about learning this year so I thought it would be great to get stared with a 'sort of' schedule. I began putting together my plans this past week. IT IS A LOT OF WORK!!! I would have never thought it would take so long to put it all together. I have to give all of you who have been doing this for a long time a big round of applause. It takes a lot of work to plan all that. I can't imagine having more than one child! I spent, I don't know, about 2 hours on it and only finished one week! :angel:
LOL - I usually spend a full week doing it with the final work done in 1 day. I use Homeschool Tracker and it helps I can download other people's lesson plans into it (I did that for Math this year)...... Lesson planning is actually one of my favorite things to do - LOL....
I've loved it so far....being my 1st year as well. I basically just scheduled what subjects on what days but am not going to assign any specific time period for each. I know we're roughly aiming for 10-2 each day.....so if we go over, great, if we're done early, great.
I do enjoy lesson planning! But this year I have put together curriculum from scratch for several subjects so it has taken a couple months to get it all together (probably averaging 3-4 hours every weekday), but we finally start tomorrow. I had to put off the start date a couple times because I wasn't ready. My first year I used Sonlight and that was all done for me. My second year I put together some of my own curriculum, but I didn't have everything scheduled and planned so it required lots of work throughout the school year.
It sure does take time to do, I have a month done ahead in some subjects and others only 2 weeks ahead. I have hmshool tracker, but I really just writing them in onto my planner. I mostly just use tracker for my attendance.
I still have yet to purchace the homeschool trackker that costs, but we have kept attendance on them at feild trip grades etc on our HS tracker for years now! there is a free version and a cost you money one, I think it would be worht it if you are just starting out as you can keep track of a lot!
