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Hopefully, this page will give you some ideas for scheduling your child's work and planning when to cover all of the wonderful material that you have chosen for your children!
JENN'S CHECKLIST PAGES
You can email Jenn if you need further help with these forms!
This is a checklist for one child. It has two weeks on one page. I hang my checklist on a clipboard in the bathroom. At the end of the day, if they have every box checked, they get to put a sticker on another chart. When they fill that chart up they get $10.00. The sticker chart holds a month worth of stickers. Checklist for one child
Once they get to the homeschool section of the checklist, my boys have a separate homeschool sheet to follow. They just mark off the finished assignments. I can sit down on a Saturday night and write out a week's worth of assignments rather quickly. They always know what to do next, and I don't have to sit over their shoulders. We have other subjects that we cover, but I teach them both together on History, Science, and Latin, so I don't give them independent assignments in those subjects. The red letters are obviously just for an example, easily erased. The subject headers are also easily changed to whatever suits your family. Assignment Checklist
Here is the checklist I actually use. It is for two children. I separated the columns and identified them with each child's initial. For more children, just highlight the existing boxes and split the columns. If you're new to Microsoft Word, I'd gladly walk you through it, just email me with any questions. Checklist for 2 children.
Here is the sticker chart. Page one is an ant on its way to a picnic basket. Stickopotamus (found at Wal-mart or any craft store) has great ant stickers. Page two has the clipart for a dog on it's way to it's doghouse. Stickopotamus has great dog print stickers for this chart. I just interchange clipart....it took too long to get all of those boxes just so. Sticker Chart
LAURIE'S PLANNING PAGES
You can email Laurie if you need further help with these forms!
2/6/06 - NEW FORM! Click here to open
Here is what I have done so far: 1) First, I looked at a standard month by month calendar for 2005 and 2006. I highlighted out "days off' in yellow.
2) Then I made decisions about curricula, ordered the materials, divided # of chapters by number of weeks in our academic year, etc. See the Overview Form - click here!
3) The blank planning form (click here to view) is used as follows:
A. Fill in subject in the Subject column, and list the materials you plan to use for each subject in the Notes section. If you want to assign specific chapters, projects, pages or assignments on specific days of the week, simply make a note of these details in the appropriate column (for example, next to Grammar, write FLL, chapter 1 under the column for Mondays work). If, however, you are uncertain about how quickly your dc will progress through the materials, (for example when teaching phonics where the goal is to cover the material thoroughly, rather than quickly) write "4 days / week" or whatever suits your schedule in the notes column. That way you can see at a glance whether you are meeting this goal or not.
B. The narrow rows at the top of the page are for subjects such as reading, writing, grammar, spelling, math where the list of materials will not be exensive (eg. Saxon Math, level 1). The larger spaces at the bottom of the table are for subjects like history or science that include more labs, projects, and additional materials.
C. For subjects where I am uncertain about how quickly my dc will progress, I did note target goals in the Notes section eg. finish ch.115 by September 5, just to assess our progress toward finishing the book in 2 years. I consider these goals flexible, and will adjust them as needed.
D. Use the Notes section at the bottom of the page to list materials needed for the week (eg. buy 50 lbs. of clay from the local ceramics store before beginning STOW 1 LOL). This is also a good place to keep track of books you are reading aloud to your younger dcs, or books assigned for independent reading. You can also note areas for additional review in the week ahead (eg. review spelling list from chapter 5).
As an example, I've included 1st grade plans for my dc. Click here to see this example.
My Weekly Planning Sheets
A sample of past scheduling sheets that I have used are here and here. You are welcome to adapt this to your needs.
It is my hope that you will find something useful here on my site!
I currently enjoy the privilege of being able to stay at home
to homeschool my children and I am always striving to be
the best caretaker for my precious family.
"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."
~ Philippians 4:13 ~
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