Homeschooling for His Glory

I am back on day five of the Back to Homeschool Blog Hop. Today I will take a look at planning your daily routine. So once you have a general idea of what your year will look like (in broad strokes) from our post on Wednesday about Planning Your Homeschool Year , you can then turn to planning a daily routine to get through your weekly workload. First step is to figure out how many times a week you will do every subjects you have planned. For example this what our week looks like when it comes to the distribution of subjects throughout the week: One we get that figured out, we distribute the work load for each subject throughout the week. Using a form like this one comes in very handy for that work. Next, we come to our daily routine. I am not a early riser, so school does not start early here. The earliest would be 10:00am. My kids are quite independent now though, and often start their easy subjects without me. For my oldest (11 1/2) that would be one or more of...

Welcome to day three of the Back to Homeschool Blog Hop. Today we are looking at planning the school year. If you have followed my blog for any period of time, you would have known that I am not a big planner. But over the years, I have grown to love planning and see the benefits of it. So how do I go about it? I gather my planning sheets. I am a planner hoarder. You should see my homeschool file on my computer, I have dozens of printable planners. The funny thing is that I always end up making up my own. I prefer planners that allow me to plan all my subjects weekly. This year I created one that I really like. All of the other ones I like usually did not allow for me to see all of the subjects at once. With this form I have all my subjects all at once for any given weeks. Unfortunately I had to use two sheets. I would prefer to have them one next to each other but decided to work with it and put them one under each other. Under each week I mark the week number and...