Jan. 9, 2008
Where we are at:
Posted in Inside our Homeschool Room
I sat down this morning with m teacher book and calendar to evaluate where we are at or how far behind we are and found this:
With 42 weeks scheduled out in our 2007-2008 School Year we are currently in week 11 which is 11 weeks behind where we are scheduled to be on January 9. I know... 11 weeks, I am not even sure how we fell so far behind. A day here, a day there, a week over there, a month here... sigh. Here is my plan:
By January 29 we will be ending week 19 which will have us caught up to 9 weeks leaving us only 2 weeks behind. If we are diligent and catch up to week 20 by the 29 and then stay on course till the end we will finish up by Jun 27 but that is with NO breaks and honestly I don't see that happening because of Easter break which we always travel. We could double up that week before we leave so that we can stay on course. I will have to think about that. June 27 is a okay date to finish up though I would prefer earlier because that only gives us 1 month off before we begin the next year.
Here is what our next 3 weeks look like in each subject:
Bible Truths: We are going to do 1 of 2 things, either just continue as we are in it combining some of the easier lessons together until the end of the year with out stressing it out, just enjoying God’s word where we are or we will substitute this with a more causal bible study and wait until next year to start this again. It was actually a little above Superman’s grade level.
FLL: Simply combining 3 lessons each day until the 25 of Jan and then continue as usual a lesson a day until June 27.
Spelling Workout: We are actually not behind in our spelling lessons but we will be combining so that we will finish them by the 27th because on my schedule I had us finishing 9 weeks after… ? So we will double up on each lesson until the 12 of May where we will then be able to just do 1 lesson a week.
Horizons: In order to catch up in our math we will be doubling x 2 for 2 weeks and then doubling for 1 week and then by the 28 of Jan we will be exactly where we should be. We have already begun to to do this and it is working just fine, he enjoys math and is very quick at it.
SOTW: Read 3 chapters a week with good discussion and lots of books from library until the 4th of February and then we will be caught up.
Science: We are just having fun with space right now, we are not on any schedule. Where ever we are lead until the 27 of June!
Nature Walks: resume as usual
Amazingly we will be able to do this with a lot of prayer and diligence! May God walk with us through the next 6 months of our homeschool year!
Comments
Jan. 10, 2008 - Hi!
Posted by byourlove1
Boy do I Know what its like being behind? With my mother in law being so sick and then her death we have really gotten behind. Thanks for your condolences, it was great hearing from you. Try not to worry, it sounds like you have a great plan ahead.
angela
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Jan. 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by drewsfamilytx
While I feel like we're behind, I like to just look at it like this. We are where we are... and that is on Week 10! Yup, one more week behind you. :-) Our schedule is 4 days a week and 36 weeks in the year, but we go year-round.
SO now I am trying to decide if I really want to figure out if I'm really behind or doing okay... y'know, for finishing this year's work before 2008 is over!
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Jan. 16, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by dawilli
Try not to worry about being 'behind'. We can sometimes plan much more than they need...
If you only get through half of what you plan your children will still be better off than if they were in public school, and probably still learn more too!
Enjoy them,
ali
(happened upon you while random blogging tonight)
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Jan. 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Sounds like you have it all figured out. Hope everything is going well. We are mixing things up over here with my oldest so that is throwing off the two little ones. I think we are finally caught back up.
Lori
www.carrhomeschool.blogspot.com
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Feb. 8, 2008 - Behind
Posted by thornfaith
I think everyone including public school teachers fall behind, I know we always do. But when we did school during the public schools "school year" we were always WAY behind. Now I do school all year round. WE LOVE IT because it gives us lots of breathing room for days off.
This is what we do:
4 days a week 4 hours a day = 832 hours a year
The other 168 are easy to come up with, with stuff like 4-H, cooking, crafts, etc.
I take all the school books and divide the amount of lessons by 12. I make a spread sheet that has how many lessons in each subject must be completed in that month. When we finish a lesson I write the date next to the month below the lesson.
Now you must know we still fall behind, like when we took a month and 1/2 off for holidays and serious illness. But I have to say it was really easy to get caught back up. We just did stuff like 5 hours a day, and that 5th day until we reached it. We even did one weekend. Next time I make the spread sheet I am going to make sure that we don't have school from Thanksgiving until New Years because it is just too hard for us.
This is my first year doing year round and while I like it for the most part, I know it will need to be tweaked.
As far as summer goes, we are always done with school by 12:30pm in the winter months and in summer it's too hot to be out after 12pm so we will just start school from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. It just works so well for us. This way the boys can be outside in the morning and afternoon.
Summer would go something like this:
Get up early - chores
After chores most days we will tend to the garden, go swimming, visit friends at the park, etc.
Some days I will cook/prep dinner early to ensure it's ready for dinner at 5pm.
Does all that make sense? Well I just know that the first 6 years of homeschooling I beat myself up when the end of the year rolled around and we were nearly 3-4 months behind! Now at present we are not one day behind! This is unheard of in this house. I thought since I get such joy from this I would help you with it. I can send you more details if your interested.
Latte Cannon
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