PLAN WITH ME | *EASY* Weekly Homeschool Planning Routine
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Plan with me for a week of homeschool! I have a simple planning routine that I use to set up our week for success and make day-to-day implementation easy.
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I'm Rachel, a mom of two and the oldest in a family of 8 kids. I'm a second-generation homeschooler who is passionate about education. I'm originally from Michigan, but am living overseas. My two young boys and teaching homeschool lessons to my youngest sisters keep me busy, but I make time for writing and for making RUclips videos, too! On this channel, you can expect videos featuring books and homeschool curriculum, homeschool tips for hard days, our journey raising bilingual kids, and vlogs about the intentional adventure that our homeschool lifestyle allows! Subscribe to join our family here:
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I find that, 10 years into our homeschooling journey, I am finally figuring out how to plan our week without spending too much time planning but still having a guideline for myself. I bought a very simple planner off of Amazon and plan our family subjects for the week first. Then I print off a checklist for each of my three oldest kids. And in my planner I only write down the things that they will need me for each day. For my younger children, I write down everything in my planner since they can't do very much on their own. I'm at the point where planning is actually fun. Most of the time we do get everything done, but it really doesn't bother me if something doesn't happen that week.
Getting to that perfect balance of having a guideline to work from (so that things you really want to do don't simply get forgotten), but also not having to spend a ton of time and energy on the planning process--that's the sweet spot! :)
Helpful video thank you. Would love to see a flip through of a completed week just to understand what you do write down for reverse planning.
I can try to share that sometime. I jot down the lesson completed: MWC 15.3, for example, or AAR Lesson 32, Spanish Reading Primer Lesson 22,
Or I write down the titles/sections of the books we read for Science or Morning Time, and any activities we did: painted a picture and read a book about Paul Cezanne for our France study (yesterday's Geography activity), played a number identification flashcard game and made letters out of play dough with my preschooler.
In the "Notes" section I'll jot down usually little "wins" or moments that I just want to remember from the week--they grow up and change so very, very fast!
This is super helpful. I don't use a particular curriculum so my plans look way messier. I enjoy planning and I tend to plan too much. I like how you've laid it all out and I can see how it allows for flexibility.
Right now, I schedule a basic order of things and then I have a minimum list for the not so great days. At least every day we do our English, Japanese, and reading. We are always naturally incorporating math and science either through play or reading so I don't plan that for the not so great days.
I like to look at what the order of learning is in other curriculums for subjects and then work backwards to find a way to incorporate in a way that works for my 6 year old as his interests are more intense than other kids.
He's starting to read though and I am so excited. He's been bringing in his science books wishing he could read them so I came up with this neat idea to write a science fact every day (lately it's been of bugs) in words that he can read phonetically as much as possible. The cool thing about this is if there's a word that uses grammar rules he doesn't know yet (usually its at least one), then I teach it to him as it comes up. I think it's doing great at encouraging him to read. I can imagine the days he's going to be reading his big science books!🤓
I really appreciate your videos!
It's a smart idea to have a minimum list, to know the subjects and work areas that are the biggest priority.
I don’t keep the same order of subjects!!! I email a few of these to our state reporter!!! I only look over the last weeks planning sheets or if we had a break in a curriculum i then look at the last week we did it!!! I make notes for sequence one!!! I love adding in different books!!! We are studying asia at the moment as we are traveling to Japan when we travel school and my older daughter is obsessed with Japanese culture and asked to study Asia so we are loving it!!!
We are an expat homeschooling family living in the Seychelles. I recently heard about world schooling. It sounds amazing.
I was wondering if there is a forum or group available that I could reach out to. We would love to connect with other homeschooling families visiting the Seychelles.
I would love to take my boys to spend some time in Japan one day!
I plan the same exact way!
It makes things easy--plan for what you actually need to plan for, and for the rest, just keep on rollin' with the book or curriculum and 'doing the next thing' as you go.
@@SevenInAll Yep, exactly my mentality with planning as well.
Hi Rachel - I see AARhas up to level 5. If your child could already read like ar level but you realize he reading books, would you continue still..
Personally, I don't plan to continue with AAR once my child is able to read fairly fluently. I think some children will benefit from the extended, thorough practice of the variety of reading skills that are incorporated alongside phonics in the higher levels of AAR, but for me and my child, I'm currently planning on just completing level 2 of AAR and moving on to reading and discussing books at his level.
Hi Rachel! Do you not always have the book for Gentle + Classical preschool? What do you do when you don’t have the book?
When I don't have the book, I might swap it out with a different book from my collection. (i.e. for "The Squirrel's Busy Year", I swapped it with "The Year at Maple Hill Farm" that I did have already, since the focus of the week included the letter Y ("Year") and months of the year...)
Other times, we have listened to a RUclips read-aloud of the book when I don't have it, we did that with "The Rattletrap Car."
This is my 2nd time through G+C Preschool. When I used it with my first son, we didn't have a lot of the books but I tried to get more of them before our 2nd round with my second son. :)
Thanks! That is very helpful. I have a number of the books, but the ones I don’t have are very hard to get and I was trying anyway! I might just try and get a couple, and swop out the rest. We also have maple tree farm. So I will do that swop😊 Sorry to pepper you with questions, but do you have any idea of science course you would do with your eldest if you couldn’t get hold of sonlight? The shipping to get it here means that it’s just not an option.
Last question! How do you use Purely Preschool alongside Gentle + Classical? My littlest is a busy lady, so wondering if doing 2 programs will be a help, or if I will end up getting overwhelmed and not doing anything?
I mostly did Purely Preschool units BEFORE Gentle + Classical Preschool, or else as a themed 'break' from G+C Preschool. Purely Preschool is a little bit easier in my opinion (which is why we did it before, when my boys weren't ready for G+C yet), the units are very light, and I think doing both could definitely be doable with a child who thrives with learning activities.@@sandylawrence3704
Hmmm...the science question is a tough one, because I don't know of an elementary science resource that I would strongly recommend that doesn't need to be shipped. I'm sure there are a variety of digital PDF options...The Good and the Beautiful has PDFs, Blossom and Root has PDFs but their science programs typically require and recommend physical books, too. Elemental Science has their Classical Science series available in PDFs, although I believe they do also have a booklist, it's not a terribly long one. I don't have experience using any of these, though. Figuring out curriculum when international shipping makes some options impossible is no small task! @@sandylawrence3704