tricia Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 (edited) I was thinking about this simple idea the other day since over the years I have been asked time and time again "How do I homeschool and get most everything done with so many kids." Well, I was just asked this again at church and got to thinking that maybe it would be helpful if to someone if I shared. It's so simple it's almost scary. At any give time in my 23 years of homeschooling adventure I have always had at least 5 kids of school age. (Well, obviously not in the very beginning but as the children grew) Here is the schedule. Devotionals Math Latin Vocabulary from the literature choices Literature-which covers ALL subjects depending on what subject we are doing at the time. Charlotte Mason Copywork/Memorywork/Narration notebook Penmanship-until about 12 Book Basket-Book of my choosing for more independent reading My list looks like this every year. I just fill in the specific titles next to the subject. I have the above generic list laminated and hung on the fridge or put into a small notebook. After each subject is done it gets a check mark next to it each day. Using a dry erase marker. This way I can wipe off. At night before family prayer daddy checks everyone's list for completion. (It didn't take long for each subject to get checked off each day once I handed it over to dad!!) Long of the short...A simple daily schedule. Of course there have been times when I use excel to make some fancy schedules for them but the bottom line is... Have a to do list for each child for each day!!:001_smile: If my children wake up and don't have that schedule to look at then all is lost. Because I admit there have been those times when they needed updated, changed, etc and I didn't have them ready and my children and house fell apart. I am totally saved with a simple list of school and chores per child. Without it, it's not pretty:lol: Edited July 7, 2009 by tricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barefoothomeschooler Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 that was very helpful. Simple is best. I have tried very detailed schedules and they always seem to fail. you have encouraged me to just do it simple. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama25angels Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 that is similar to my list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderfilled Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Thanks for sharing. I'm always trying to get more organized. I love organization, but I'm not good at sticking to it. This sounds simple enough to do. Giving the list to Dad at the end of the day sounds like a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendall Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 mamato12, How do you do the vocabulary from literature? Thanks, mom to 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricia Posted July 7, 2009 Author Share Posted July 7, 2009 Since I don't have enough time to go through all the books they read in each particular subject and choose the words myself I have them do a Robinson Curriculum book about once or twice a month just so I can throw in some vocabulary. In this way, I have their vocab. curriculum all worked out for me. I have the RC list and cd's and I just check them off as we read them. I used to use the McGuffey Speller for our vocabulary words but I got burned out trying to keep up with everyone. With so many kids I would have to find the definition myself (if I didn't already know it), check their work, basically design my own vocab curriculum. Then when the Robinson Curriculum came out I thought that was my ticket out!:001_smile: Puzzles, tests, words and definitions, etc. couldn't get any easier. Hope this helps Oh, for our literature lists I just print out the titles and make a list for each child for the school year and they keep in their notebooks. I try to choose living books depending on the 'theme' for the year. For instance, last year we mainly focused on science so I took books from the RC list, Beautiful Feet science list, etc and those were our spine. This year it is American History and I am using book titles from various publishers. We focus on science for a few months, then history, then geography, then just literature classics for a few months then back to science, and so forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmacnchs Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I went to your blog and saw the Book Samaritan...the link took me to a search engine that said it could find no such thing...is it still up and running? ps...i'm a big list person too :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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