From time to time I get general homeschooling questions…questions about scheduling, planning, etc. So, since I finally have a “lesson planning” system that works for us, I thought I’d share!!
I do not make lesson plans ahead of time. gasp! Now, I do plan, mind you. But, I don’t sit and write out every page from every book we will do for everyday of the school year. Nope, not me. 🙂
This is so easy I feel a bit silly sharing…but since you (or someone out there) asked…voila!
Once I knew what curriculum and choices we would be using for this school year, I simply made a list of each item I’d like to accomplish each day. I put them into an excel chart page thingy, copied it into 5 columns for the 5 days of the week and PRINTED. I printed enough copies, front and back, for each week of the year. I have punched 3 holes in them and they are already in my planning notebook with my calendar, ready to go!
Now, each school day, I simply CHECK OFF each item that we complete!! Yay! I left just a tiny bit of space with each day so that I could make notes or add in extras if need be.
I really like this, because when I add the date to each page, it becomes the “proof” (so to speak) that I need for school year, should anyone ever knock on my door and ask what we’ve been doing all day!
Now, before you look at this list and freak out, some of these items take literally MINUTES to complete. And, obviously, some of these items are only for the girls, not Caleb. So, no worries, I’m not over-educating my children or anything. {grin}
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I won’t boast too proudly that last year we used this same “lesson planning” method. Only, I wasn’t brilliant enough to type it all out. I just wrote down everything we did each day after we had completed our school day. ha! This takes care of that for me now, not nearly as much writing for me!
Do you have any simple planning tricks? I’d love to hear from you!
