Once again I got sidetracked from my series on planning with all the end of summer "fun" stuff we've been doing! I'd gotten to the point where I've figured out what each subject/child needed to do each week. Now is where I put it (and all the other things we need to do) into our schedule.
Here's what it looks like this year:
It will probably be "tweeked" once or twice in early fall and then we'll stick to it. Like for instance I know we need another workout day at the Y. It will probably be Friday but I haven't got that in yet. I know we also need to schedule a regular library day but I haven't decided which would be the best day for that yet. Thought we'd give it a week or two and see which days seemed lighter. Here's the link to this file in PDF, and in Publisher.
I also do this at a glance subject assignment calendar. This helps me as well as the kids remember which subjects we do each day. 
In past years I've had Thursdays as Science day and Fridays as History day (that's where we basically do nothing but Science/History on those days, so that made Mon-Wed. heavy in "Core" subjects) but this year that isn't going to work so this is quite a change for us. With the reading assignments in Mystery of History getting so much longer (from book I to III) it was getting difficult to absorb all in one day (though I much prefer that method!) Also, with science my oldest doing Apologia Chemistry this year needs more than one day to complete science so I thought it was best to just put everyone on that schedule. Here's the link tothis sheet in xl andin pdf if you're interested.
So that's about it on my planning. We started yesterday and things went almost according to plan. I was thinking it was Monday and it was actually Tuesday so I didn't do Science which is scheduled for Tuesday. Oh, well, if mom can figure out the days of the week we'll be all set, LOL!
Gina
p.s. Look in the future for more ideas on weekly meetings and projects weeks which you might have noticed in our schedule. Both of these work really well for us! | 
