ClassicalTwins Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 If you paper plan what do you do when you miss a day or lesson to get back on track. My husband and I both do school, as I am the one who goes to work, but I love to do the class when I am home. I do all the planning and he carries it out, but sometimes we miss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomesteadMommy Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I label my planning forms Week 1, Day 1, Day 2 etc. Week 2, Day 1 etc. So that way if I miss a day it doesn't through off a "dated" planner. I just pick up on the next "day". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Jo Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 It depends. Sometimes I just have us do school on Saturday, especially if we took a fun or project day. For Latin, we generally double up and do work orally. Math - I'll look at the two days and we do the problems most relevant to whichever son. SWR - I can adapt it easily to a 3 day week. And somethings get skipped - especially programs with a lot of review (KISS Grammar). I have every 6th week with very light work - we can use it to catch up (or move it, as I did this month). HTH! Remember you can SKIP a day's work - kids in regular school who are sick either skip the work, have homework or get a brief overview outside class. Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsiew Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 We usually just pick up where we left off. I'm not married to a 36 week school year as we school year round. I only plan 6 weeks at a time on paper so I can easily adjust if needed. I have a habit of highlighting everything we got done in my plan books and circling anything that needs to be moved to the next day. In history or science I may combine things to pick up what we missed... or depending on the topic we may just skip it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Well, our curriculum and schedule don't have a lot of "busy work"- for 5th grade we can finish our curriculum stuff within 2-3 hours. So if we miss a day for some reason, it's pretty easy to spread that day's stuff out over the rest of the week without adding on a ton of time to our other days. Occasionally, we might work on a weekend. Sometimes we don't get to a particular activity or exercise and it gets tacked on to the following week's schedule. It all works itself out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 For me it depends on what we miss. I did the filing system this summer so I don't paper plan until the Sunday night before our week starts. I pull out that week's folder and go through it to make my paper plan. If I know the week is going to be hectic, I see if there are some things I could leave off or double up on a day or two. I try to do everything, but I'm not going to fret if I cross out several review problems on 2 math lessons to make the 2 doable in one day. I have also done some school work in the evenings or weekends to make up, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ummsamiyah Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 I do my lesson plans 2 weeks at a time because things are always changing around here. I work and school as well as run extracurricular activities for them so sometimes i am just too tired to get to everything. doing it 2 weeks at a time in pencil helps me stay focused without getting frazzled about getting "behind" in our work. especially since we are moving at their respective paces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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