I've been working on a schedule for our time in our next school year. I've heard the idea often from the Maxwell's book - Managers of their Homes - but then I found the Shupe's family blog where she breaks it down into how she actually makes a schedule. We had a schedule last year and though we didn't always follow it (I'm looking at my 7 AM wake-up time and exercise time) it was a good start and it was nice to have an order to the subjects we did. It's been difficult and I'm not satisfied with it yet. I'm sure that I will change some things in the first two weeks and I know by November I'll be revamping a good majority of it. In November I'm pretty sure the Bubbers will be down to one nap and I also think they'll be done nursing. So here is the final rough draft of my schedule. Click on it to see it larger.
I'm not satisfied with the amount of time I don't have with Sunshine and the Bubbers and I don't have any real exercise built in. I have given a whole hour to math and a whole hour to history. I don't know that I will need quite that much time so we may get done earlier than I have planned, which would be great. I just decided to give them an hour so that if we had interruptions or we were late on other subjects, we wouldn't be stressed. As I've said, the Bubbers schedule will probably change by November because they will be one. (I will have one-year-old twins! Ahh! That was never on my radar growing up or while getting pregnant.) So I will have to change the schedule a bit.
I am pretty firm on the order of most of the subjects. I especially need to do history during Sunshine's naptime and I need to have him occupied for at least the beginning of math so that I can teach the concepts and Racer and Chicklette can start on their practice. So those two things will work out. I'm not sure about where Turtle's reading lesson is and I'm not so sure about where Writing with Ease and First Language Lessons are. I keep thinking about getting a grammar program that is less teacher-intensive, but I think First Language Lessons is a really good program. We'll see how it goes this year.
So, what's the vote? Am I crazy or what? :) Wish me luck in September.
I am pretty firm on the order of most of the subjects. I especially need to do history during Sunshine's naptime and I need to have him occupied for at least the beginning of math so that I can teach the concepts and Racer and Chicklette can start on their practice. So those two things will work out. I'm not sure about where Turtle's reading lesson is and I'm not so sure about where Writing with Ease and First Language Lessons are. I keep thinking about getting a grammar program that is less teacher-intensive, but I think First Language Lessons is a really good program. We'll see how it goes this year.
So, what's the vote? Am I crazy or what? :) Wish me luck in September.