I love to schedule things and make lists and charts. I seem to be in a perpetual planning mode. Someone on my TOG yahoo group sent this link for Donna Young's site. I have visited her site before, but she has recently revamped it and done some neat changes. The site is not finished, but I found plenty to keep me busy yesterday afternoon.

I downloaded a really cool weekly schedule (link is on the right side of the page) that Donna made up using Excel. I am sure if I played around enough I could make something like this, but I always have so many other things to do. This planner is so neat, because it allows you to customize the subjects down the left-hand side of the page, add text to each of the subject boxes and has boxes for the kids to check off when they are finished with an assignment. I printed something similar off of her site a couple of years ago, but had to handwrite all of the information. I transferred all of the assignments for each of the kids and printed off a copy for each of them. I am going to start saving them as South Carolina requires us to keep a daily journal/log of our schooling. This will be a great way to fulfill that requirement.

My next project is to come up with a usable timeline. I would prefer to do a notebook timeline because I don't want to have one on the wall. I am having trouble with the logistics of it, though. I would like to draw a line horizontally across the top of a sheet of paper, with each page representing 10 years. (A double page spread would then show us a 20-year time span.) My roadblock, however, is how to fit all of the information on each sheet of paper. Right now we are studying the American Revolution. I have one full sheet of typed information just for the years between 1775-1783. I thought about maybe making mini flip books for each year.

For example, there are three events in 1775-the Battles of Lexington and Concord, General Washington being named commander of the Continental Army and the Battle of Bunker Hill. I would have three pages in the 1775 flip book relating to the American Revolution. Anything else happening in 1775 elsewhere in the world would have its own picture and caption somewhere else on the page. If anyone has a better idea, or has an idea to tweak this setup I would greatly appreciate it.