How to schedule
1.
Determine what your priorities are in
general.
a.
When the dust settles on each day, what will you
want to look back on and KNOW that you accomplished?
b.
Each academic subject? Bible study? Piano
lessons? Character building? Speech
development? Reading lessons?
2.
Take a week to live life with this question in
your mind, “What are my priorities?”
Some of you may already know that without having to really think about
it too hard.
a.
Designate a notebook and pen and as you think of
things, write them down right away. Make
sure to write down specific priorities for each child and for yourself
separately.
b.
At the end of the week, take stock of the things
on your list.
c.
Find a nice spot in your home where you can
really get some work done. Bring out
your notebook and give each priority a rating.
Make sure to include weekends in your schedule!! Then, by priority, make a schedule for each
person in your home right down to the baby.
d.
Now, try to live your schedule for one week and
see what happens. By the end of the
week, you will hopefully have a very good framework for your schedule.
3.
Homeschool scheduling can seem like a HUGE task,
yet, with a little planning you can create the perfect homeschool schedule for
your family.
4.
Set a time to start and end the day.
a.
In the real world, there is a time to get up and
a time to go to bed.
b.
My biggest concern when I started homeschooling
my children was that they develop good habits.
c.
No matter what they do in life, they will need
the discipline to get up in the morning and to go to bed at a proper time.
5.
Schedule a Lunch time and Recess/Break Time.
6.
Determine Your States Laws For the Number of
Hours and Days of School.
a.
Some states require number of days and some
require number of hours.
b.
All year, 3 months on and one month off, or 9
months on and 3 months off.
7.
Consider the Number of Children in the
Household.
8.
Plan in Normal Household Activities, Such as
Cleaning, Cooking, Laundry, Rests...
a.
Check out age appropriate chores for preschool
children.
9.
Schedule in Extracurricular Activities.
a.
Athletic activities, Library story times, field
trips to the fire house, park, zoo, Children's Museum and library visits.
10.
Schedule the Hardest Subjects When The Children
Are At Their Best.
a.
It is common in classrooms that Math and Reading
are completed early in the day.
11.
Decide whether you want a Time/Clock Schedule or
an After Breakfast and Before Lunch type schedule.
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