Do you have a link for your timetable? I'd love to use it as a template, and tweak it for our family! I have 5 kids, forms 3,2,1, a two year old, and a baby due in Oct. Our kids' ages are really close, and I'd love to look at what you set up that worked for that age spread a little more closely.
I have done something very similar this year. This year I have student in form 3, two in form 2, and a form 1 with 3 littles tagging along and had to rethink our time. Our schedule last year didn't work this year and I had to do some tweaking. And I think the biggest help was letting go of all others expectations, making a list of all I want to do in a week, and noting what all I personally had to do to help them. Once I had those three I could plug and chug and I think we are settling into our new schedule a bit finally- a month of sickness didn't help us settle routines. Its easy to make a beautiful schedule, but we have to really think what serves our individual families, and what we personally are capable of doing. I've learned in a big family that our schedule will always be changing from season to season as we still keep adding littles, but that's ok!
I know that this video was 11 months ago, but do you have a video or template of how to create a timetable. I would like to implement this timetable with my 6 children. We are new to Charlotte Mason, so I am learning and trying to make our home life and school time more enjoyable and peaceful. I need to stay accountable and trying to get my kids to be more accountable with their assignments without me having to tell them what to do everyday. I need to get more organized in my homeschool as it is stressing me out and kids are not getting their assignments done in a day. I have a rambunctious toddler too, when I need to incorporate in our school day, but struggling to find ways to keep him busy and out of trouble. He likes to climb and wrestle with his older sister who is six years old and she gets upset because he is too rough. I finding that he needs lots of outdoor time which some days are hard to do. When he gets his energy out he is much cam inside and makes it easier to do school with older children. But lately it has been survival mode and trying to just get the bare minimum done because my toddler needs so much interaction, plus he doesn't really like to sit and play with blocks or toys which is frustrating because I don't know how to entertain him.
I’m really thinking a time schedule will help us to stay on track this coming year too. Impatiently waiting for Feb. 9th to join CMEC and hopefully start some of their mother’s education courses
Thanks so much for sharing, it’s really inspiring! What do your older children write about for they written narrations? And do they read their books at night?
So I am currently reading through the CMEC info packet and I am getting really excited about the possibility of joining this coming year. However, I just looked at their sample timetables and I noticed that they were all Monday through Saturday! Is it really 6 days a week?! Does everyone do it that way? I don't see how I could possibly do school lessons with my children 6 days a week. Our weekends are busy and it's often hard to get school done 5 days a week just with normal things like doctors appointments and grocery shopping. I'm really hoping it is more flexible than that...
I don’t know why they do that! I schedule 4 days a week with the fifth being math, reading and writing - and usually either nature group or cleaning the house. Don’t stress- do what works for your family and all will be well!
@@joycherrick Oh that is so good to hear! *phew*! I was really hoping that that just happened to be the example they used, but was not standard across the board. We currently do 4 ( sometimes 5) days a week as well and that is working well for us.
This was so helpful, thank you so much Joy, you are such an encouragement. Like you said in one of your recent videos, it is so lifegiving to stake yourself next to someone that little bit further down the track from you, my eldest is half through year 5.❤ Just curious, when do you have your children work on their book of centuries, is that a separate time or just included as part of the narration time after their history readings?😊
I have them work on their book of centuries while I'm reading aloud our History reading for the week. I found that they need to be busy while I read so I grab a stack of books for them to copy from and they work while I'm reading aloud.
We use Beast Academy for my kids who are third grade and older. My first grader is working through Math Mammoth Lite Blue Series first grade books. Beast Academy is written by Art of Problem Solving- and they are the beast math out there. They train math Olympiad’s and really seem to share the wonder of math! I did a few videos about it on this channel that may be helpful
Do you have a link for your timetable? I'd love to use it as a template, and tweak it for our family! I have 5 kids, forms 3,2,1, a two year old, and a baby due in Oct. Our kids' ages are really close, and I'd love to look at what you set up that worked for that age spread a little more closely.
Shoot me an email via my website and I can get you set up! info at naturestudyhacking dot com
I have done something very similar this year. This year I have student in form 3, two in form 2, and a form 1 with 3 littles tagging along and had to rethink our time. Our schedule last year didn't work this year and I had to do some tweaking. And I think the biggest help was letting go of all others expectations, making a list of all I want to do in a week, and noting what all I personally had to do to help them. Once I had those three I could plug and chug and I think we are settling into our new schedule a bit finally- a month of sickness didn't help us settle routines. Its easy to make a beautiful schedule, but we have to really think what serves our individual families, and what we personally are capable of doing. I've learned in a big family that our schedule will always be changing from season to season as we still keep adding littles, but that's ok!
I know that this video was 11 months ago, but do you have a video or template of how to create a timetable. I would like to implement this timetable with my 6 children. We are new to Charlotte Mason, so I am learning and trying to make our home life and school time more enjoyable and peaceful. I need to stay accountable and trying to get my kids to be more accountable with their assignments without me having to tell them what to do everyday. I need to get more organized in my homeschool as it is stressing me out and kids are not getting their assignments done in a day. I have a rambunctious toddler too, when I need to incorporate in our school day, but struggling to find ways to keep him busy and out of trouble. He likes to climb and wrestle with his older sister who is six years old and she gets upset because he is too rough. I finding that he needs lots of outdoor time which some days are hard to do. When he gets his energy out he is much cam inside and makes it easier to do school with older children. But lately it has been survival mode and trying to just get the bare minimum done because my toddler needs so much interaction, plus he doesn't really like to sit and play with blocks or toys which is frustrating because I don't know how to entertain him.
My video about how I Plan CM in 10 steps has what you are looking for
Thanks for sharing this Joy! I do something very similar and I love seeing how others do this as well ❤️
Hey Chelsey!! So glad you were encouraged! Hope all is well with your family!
I have watched another one of you videos. Looking for what CMEC stands for. Would like to research that more! Thank you 😊
I’m really thinking a time schedule will help us to stay on track this coming year too. Impatiently waiting for Feb. 9th to join CMEC and hopefully start some of their mother’s education courses
Same here😊❤
Thanks so much for sharing, it’s really inspiring! What do your older children write about for they written narrations? And do they read their books at night?
So I am currently reading through the CMEC info packet and I am getting really excited about the possibility of joining this coming year. However, I just looked at their sample timetables and I noticed that they were all Monday through Saturday! Is it really 6 days a week?! Does everyone do it that way? I don't see how I could possibly do school lessons with my children 6 days a week. Our weekends are busy and it's often hard to get school done 5 days a week just with normal things like doctors appointments and grocery shopping. I'm really hoping it is more flexible than that...
I don’t know why they do that! I schedule 4 days a week with the fifth being math, reading and writing - and usually either nature group or cleaning the house. Don’t stress- do what works for your family and all will be well!
@@joycherrick Oh that is so good to hear! *phew*! I was really hoping that that just happened to be the example they used, but was not standard across the board. We currently do 4 ( sometimes 5) days a week as well and that is working well for us.
This was so helpful, thank you so much Joy, you are such an encouragement. Like you said in one of your recent videos, it is so lifegiving to stake yourself next to someone that little bit further down the track from you, my eldest is half through year 5.❤
Just curious, when do you have your children work on their book of centuries, is that a separate time or just included as part of the narration time after their history readings?😊
I have them work on their book of centuries while I'm reading aloud our History reading for the week. I found that they need to be busy while I read so I grab a stack of books for them to copy from and they work while I'm reading aloud.
@@joycherrick perfect, thanks so much!💕
What math do you guys to use with the CMEC?
I just heard you say beast math. 😀 is that what you use for everyone?
We use Beast Academy for my kids who are third grade and older. My first grader is working through Math Mammoth Lite Blue Series first grade books. Beast Academy is written by Art of Problem Solving- and they are the beast math out there. They train math Olympiad’s and really seem to share the wonder of math! I did a few videos about it on this channel that may be helpful