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Here is the third part of our posting seri: Features in Our Homeschooling Planner. Part 3 will talk about Lesson Scheduling. The previous features discussed were posted in Features in Our Homeschooling Planner {Part 1} about Time Allocation Scheduling and Features in Our Homeschooling Planner {Part 2}about Resource Management.
If you have read the previous posts in this series, you can see that I just discussed the text based and literature (living book) based homeschooling. That's right. At the moment we will talk more about lessons using text books and literature books first. Other methods using various scrambled resources would be discussed on the next part.
We are going to continue managing the resource to the time. Therefore it is like the combination between features part 1 and features part 2. Even if you have already purchased boxed curriculum, most people will have different result for part 3 except if you have exactly similar time allocation and similar types of children. As we know together that every family is different one from each other and so are children.
From part 2 featured planning pages we get the number of parts should be covered yearly, weekly, and daily. Now we are going to put the number obtained into yearly, weekly, and daily list. There is also a time table form to arrange the weekly subject lessons.
Yearly Subject Planner
This planning page doesn't will help us to list the sequence of divided resource. I use the checklist to control the delivery portion and the sequence of the lessons. I have posted previously that I don't use the yearly subject planner anymore as I prefer using electronic lesson planner at the moment. However, the function of yearly subject planner always appears in any homeschooling planner types in many different way. May be many of you have already done similar thing, like numbering parts of the lessons taught in sequence.
Some fields in this form to do:
- Write the name of the child that the planner is intended to altogether with the grade and academic year.
- Write the subject and the course of the lessons. They can be the same. Look up in Features in Our Homeschooling Planner {Part 2}
- The first column is a kind of checker that you put check mark when the lesson has finished. Don't fill it in until the lesson on the row finish.
- The second column is for the sequence of the lesson. You just simply put numbers consecutively
- Filling in the third and fourth columns of the table is very flexible. You can use either column Lesson/Title or detail. You might also use both of them. For those who use textbook or literature, you might look up the parts of the lesson division. For example: For Reading. I would like to get my son reading 1 chapter of The Story of Dr. DooLittle in each reading lesson before he does a reading activity. So I will put in column 3: The Story of Dr. Doolittle Ch. 1, column 4: Answer question for ch. 1. On the next sequence, I will put in column 3: The Story of Dr. Doolittle Ch. 2, column 4: Oral Narration Ch. 2.
In Maths, I would like my son to finish one day 1-2 pages. I prefer to look up the book and how the connection between pages related. For example, sequence 1: Math Mammoth 3A pg. 1, sequence 2: Math Mammoth 3A pg 2-3, etc. Therefore, filling in column 3 and 4 is flexible. - Column 5 is for the resource or maybe materials if you prefer. Not to spend a lot of space, you might put a unique code for each resource.
For writing on the form, I suggest you not spend too much detail. If you need some detail, you might put it on the daily planning form so that you won't spend too much time on one form.
Time Table
The next form that you need to think further is the time table. It is not an easy work to arrange the time table for me. If you have younger kids, you might have to be a dictator like what I did. It means that parents arrange the time table and the workboxes by themselves. However, you might have a compromise with your children or even get the children arrange their own time table as you just give them some suggestion. Here are a couple of hang out videos that I really love about how to customize the schedule or time table (as part of it). I hope you love them as well.
Well, the frequency of each lesson should be based on the priority and requirement. Look up Features of Our Homeschooling Planner {Part 2} on the Subject Course and Resources form.
Weekly Lesson Planner
Once the time table is set up, filling in this form will just take very short time. Basically, it is just copying the sequences of the lessons in the Yearly Lesson Planner into the appropriate days as they are set on the schedule in the Time table. I just make once in a week as sometimes it takes longer or less time for kids to finish the lesson or assignment in one day so that I have to extend the lesson on the next day or week. Therefore, setting up the form earlier will just get you more work to do.
As I use electronic lesson planner, the bumping lesson is very easily done. Even it is automatically arranged by the program.
Daily Lesson Planner
It is very hard for me to use this form, I would like to confess. The electronic lesson planner I use at the moment provides this facility automatically as long as I put it on the yearly lesson planner or database. However, I know that some people use the daily lesson planner very well. It is very useful to break down the weekly lesson planner into days so that it would be more detail. If you want your children to be more independent, giving daily lesson planner for them to follow would be an alternative. You might use colored pen for the visual learners.
Do they look complicated for you? Don't be scared with planners as we should not be enslaved by planners. Planners are just tools for us. There are still some planners left out: The Unit Study Plan, The Lapbooking Plan, The Notebooking Plan, and The Field Trip Plan.
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Adelien Tan is a mother of three awesome boys and a wife of a great husband. They are a home education family who live in Surabaya, Indonesia, where home education is still very rare. English is her foreign language, but She tries to use it in blogging.
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