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Jan. 22, 2009

Another Year, another dollar...

...Oh sorry wrong blog!
As is usual for the beginnning of the school year (Australia), I am busy preparing 'stuff' for the year ahead. I also have daughter number two to register, but Im not too worried about this.

I decided to use quarter planners for this years daily work, I think this works quite well whether your using a set curriculum, have chosen your own work/books, or just to plan trips etc you want done each term.

I have a list of goals, trips and books/curriculum I want to cover for each subject and a planner page of eleven weeks with 5 days in each, I originally used the quarter planner on Donna Young.org but this is only a nine week planner, so I just used the same format and added two rows.

For Term One Language Arts for Merah Moo, I did the following:

Subject: English 2009

Name: Term:One

Key: FIAR = Five in a row, Son = Sonlight PK, W = Week

Week

Starting

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

27.1

Homeschool Preparation Week

2.2

FIAR Glorious Flight

Son W16

Copywork Review a-c

Reading review

FIAR Glorious Flight

Son W16

Copywork review d-g

Reading review

FIAR Glorious Flight

Son W16

Letter H + copywork

Reading review

FIAR Glorious Flight

Son W16

Letter H + copywork

Reading review

FIAR Glorious Flight

Son W16

Letter H + copywork

Reading review

9.2

FIAR Apple Pie

Son W17

Letter I + Copywork

Reading new sound k

FIAR Apple Pie

Son W17

Letter I + Copywork

Reading new sound k

FIAR Apple Pie

Son W17

Letter I + Copywork

Reading new sound k

FIAR Apple Pie

Son W17

Letter I + Copywork

Reading new sound k

FIAR Apple Pie

Son W17

Test/Review week and previous learning

16.2

FIAR Ping

Son W18

Letter J + Copywork

Reading new sound l

FIAR Ping

Son W18

Letter J + Copywork

Reading new sound l

FIAR Ping

Son W18

Letter J + Copywork

Reading new sound l

FIAR Ping

Son W18

Letter J + Copywork

Reading new sound l

FIAR Ping

Son W18

Test/Review week and previous learning

23.2

FIAR Lentil

Son W19

Letter K + Copywork

Reading new sound p

FIAR Lentil

Son W19

Letter K + Copywork

Reading new sound p

FIAR Lentil

Son W19

Letter K + Copywork

Reading new sound p

FIAR Lentil

Son W19

Letter K + Copywork

Reading new sound p

FIAR Lentil

Son W19

Test/Review week and previous learning

2.3

FIAR Clown of God

Son W20

Letter L+ Copywork

Reading new sound u

FIAR Clown of God

Son W20

Letter L+ Copywork

Reading new sound u

FIAR Clown of God

Son W20

Letter L+ Copywork

Reading new sound u

FIAR Clown of God

Son W20

Letter L+ Copywork

Reading new sound u

FIAR Clown of God

Son W 20

Test/Review week and previous learning

9.3

FIAR Mike Mulligan

Son W21

Letter M+ Copywork

Reading new sound x

FIAR Mike Mulligan

Son W21

Letter M+ Copywork

Reading new sound x

FIAR Mike Mulligan

Son W21

Letter M+ Copywork

Reading new sound x

FIAR Mike Mulligan

Son W21

Letter M+ Copywork

Reading new sound x

FIAR Mike Mulligan

Son W 21

Test/Review week and previous learning

16.3

FIAR Robert Frost

Son W22

Letter N + Copywork

Reading new sound v

FIAR Robert Frost

Son W22

Letter N + Copywork

Reading new sound v

FIAR Robert Frost

Son W22

Letter N + Copywork

Reading new sound v

FIAR Robert Frost

Son W22

Letter N + Copywork

Reading new sound v

FIAR Robert Frost

Son W 22

Test/Review week and previous learning

23.3

Son W23

Letter O+ Copywork

Reading new sound w

Son W23

Letter O+ Copywork

Reading new sound w

Son W23

Letter O+ Copywork

Reading new sound w

Son W23

Letter O+ Copywork

Reading new sound w

Son W 23

Test/Review week and previous learning

30.3

Son W24

Letter P+ Copywork

Reading new sound y,z

Son W24

Letter P+ Copywork

Reading new sound y,z

Son W24

Letter P+ Copywork

Reading new sound y,z

Son W24

Letter P+ Copywork

Reading new sound y,z

Son W 24

Test/Review week and previous learning

6.4

Son W25

Letter Qu + Copywork

Reading new sound qu

Son W25

Letter Qu + Copywork

Reading new sound qu

Son W25

Letter Qu + Copywork

Reading new sound qu

Son W25

Letter Qu + Copywork

Reading new sound qu

Son W 24

Test/Review week and previous learning

Seems alot of prep and sometimes I don't end up doing anything that is on the timetable, but for me I need to see where I am going in order to get there. Nothing we are doing is set in stone, it is just a guideline for me.

I haven't tried being this 'organised' before, I usually prepare work weekly, and it sure is alot of work, but I think to do the work now before the year begins saves me alot of heart ache later, like not preparing the weekend before and thus not doing hardly any work for a week!!! Plus we have a big year and organising our time is going to pay of in the long run.

I have Goals for each subject for the year, chosen books or other sources of info, and broken in down into weekly bits, As I use alot of American type curriculum that uses 35 week time table I'd just use the remaining 5 weeks through the year to catch up, extra projects etc.

After the quarter planners are filled out I transfer the work required for the term to a checklist (also available on Donna Young.org ) the checklist is just a list of work that needs to be completed daily/weekly etc., ie. handwriting, spelling, reading, math workbook, bible narration etc. and you put a little tick each day that you do your work. It is handy in that you don't have to keep turning pages back and forth minute of the day to see what you have to cover! Thanks Donna.

Well getting back to work.

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