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A few years ago we bought the book Managers of Their Homes by Steve and Teri Maxwell. We set up a different schedule for each season of our lives. For example, the schedule that starts the school year gets reworked around the holidays when our lives are busy, busy, busy. We have a completely different schedule in the summer than we do the rest of the year. We are entering a new season and I'm trying to rework our schedule.
I'm never really good at sticking strictly to the time frames and such on the schedule we end up with but having some kind of schedule, even if it isn't followed exactly, helps our home and school to run much more smoothly. The schedule gives directions to the children so I don't have to keep redirecting them all day. They know what comes next so there isn't a lot of time wasted while they decide what they want to do. (We've tried that and it didn't work for us at all!)
I've also decided that my children need to do a lot more writing than they have been. They both have horrible handwriting and I realized the other day that they really aren't expected to write very much. We don't have to do portfolios and I hate having to deal with tons of paper so we do a lot of our work orally. If they are writing a report or an essay then they type those. So, I'm planning to add in a time for Writing in our schedule in which they will be required to hand write something - journals, narrations, essays, etc.
To help me in setting up our schedules and deciding what needs done and how much time we have to do it, my wonderful husband set up a spreadsheet for me so I can type in the time amount for each thing on the schedule and it will add up the minutes, display a total, then show me how many hours that is. This is so fabulous! I now know at a glance if I've scheduled 28 hours of work in a 24 hour day.
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