Jul. 29, 2008 - back to planning...

Wow, how time does fly when you're trying to accomplish everything you wanted to over the summer!  I fully intended to get back to this "series" on planning as I do my own planning but I've been sidetracked.  For starters my son has been detasseling corn which means for almost three weeks I've been up every morning at 5:45 to get his lunch ready and get him to the bus.  I'm so tired but his last day is tomorrow!  Yeah! Secondly, I try and get some projects done in our "off" time over the summer.   Unfortunately so far l had not much accomplished so I've been working on that list.  Today I painted two coats of paint in the kitchen.  It was "fussy" painting but I think I like it.  You know how it has to grow on you a little.  I'm hoping to finish up the kitchen this week (another color paint, bead board, trim etc...) Okay, so back to planning. Once I've "thought" about last year (see last blog) and made some decisions about what I want to do or not do I'm to my next point in planning.  This is where I actually map out what we'll do what weeks.  First I take inventory of what we'll use.  This is simply a form that helps you keep track of what curriculum you're using each subject and each child.  Next I plan out what each child will do each week.  The semester plan I use is from Donna Youngs site.  Here's a copy of one from last year if you want an idea. The dates I write in to the left and I don't use the garding part at the bottom.  The number's like 1, 2 etc... refer to chapters and the ones with higher numbers like 82-84 refer to pages. This will take me a couple of evenings to complete each childs, then I get into our daily and weekly schedule but I'll save that for next time!

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Aug. 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by kristenph

So are your older 2 children fairly independent in their studies? I had such a hard time trying to do kindergarten with my 3rd last year that it basically didn't get done. It didn't help that he had little to no interest in doing school either. I have a plan, which you've seen, but I have my doubts that I will be able to get the time with my son that he needs. Any advice?

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Aug. 8, 2008 - response to indenpendence questions

Posted by tlpgina

Well, are my older two independent? Yes and no. We are working towards it in some subject but we enjoy multi-age learning so we do a lot together. The sheets I do help me to keep them accountable in the area's they do on their own. We do a meeting, most of the time weekly which I've had other questions on so I'm planning a blog on that in the near future. That helps my kids and myself to accomplish more accountability. Hope that helps a little, check back the blog on our meeting's may answer more. Gina

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