StartingOver Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Every time I try to plan something, my kids skills just jump past the skill. I quit, I vow to just roll with the flow. I will do the next thing, or the next, or skip a few and the next. Life will be so much more peaceful that way, for me at least. :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2smartones Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I wish someone had told me that when my kids were little. LOL! (Didn't you used to have a blog in your siggy? I thought I'd clicked it before.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Me, too. I give up! :nopity: I have to force myself NOT to plan. Do NOT plan!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 With my older children I planned out everything, it was wonderful. I am a box checker. These little ones don't get that at all. Geez !! They keep figuring out what I want to teach, before I teach it. Or just get it instantly. Yesterday I was introducing Addition with Carrying to my son. I got the base ten blocks out and the Cuisenaire Rods, setting up 284 + 327 ( or whatever the problem was ) and started working the blocks and rods explaining as I went. My son looks at me and says, " Geez mom, you are just moving the ones to the tens, and the tens to the hundreds. I get carrying! Can I just do the workbook now?" He was just so annoyed that I assumed that it needed that much explanation. ;-) A few minutes later I see his little sister watching him intently. She says, "Oh, I get that." Sigh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Write out a gorgeous plan that fills a notebook, gaze fondly at it for almost a week, and then chuck it in the recycling bin. :D In a good year I might write out three or four whole plans! LOL I enjoy planning, and I do get something out of having everything listed out in one place (especially deadlines), but we never stick with it in any kind of set-in-stone way. Sometimes I wish we could, but really what we end up doing with the flexibility is much cooler than what I could plan from the outset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I've made the same decision about pre-buying materials. As soon as I think I've found something that works, and I buy the whole set thinking that I'm good for a year or more, DD pole vaults over it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a27mom Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Totally commiserate here. I am blessed to have a used curriculum store in my area. I think I have been in there every week in August. Finally seem to have the right level of math. I planned it out in an accelerated plan. But, After 2 days we are a week ahead of my plan. The used curriculum store had the next level, :) , so hopefully we will make it to Thanksgiving. At least if you need to take a day off to replan they aren't falling behind lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 Write out a gorgeous plan that fills a notebook, gaze fondly at it for almost a week, and then chuck it in the recycling bin. :D In a good year I might write out three or four whole plans! LOL I enjoy planning, and I do get something out of having everything listed out in one place (especially deadlines), but we never stick with it in any kind of set-in-stone way. Sometimes I wish we could, but really what we end up doing with the flexibility is much cooler than what I could plan from the outset. :lol::lol: I bought Homeschool Tracker a few years ago with the idea of beautiful planned sheets all printed out. I printed out a complete year play twice. Then I gave up. Now I just plan and plan, but never print. I have enough in my recycle pile ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I've made the same decision about pre-buying materials. As soon as I think I've found something that works, and I buy the whole set thinking that I'm good for a year or more, DD pole vaults over it! :lol::lol::lol: Or finishes something that's intended to last a full semester in a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I don't plan. I have a weekly tentative and a small white board check list for daily. Beyond that has just only proved to be unnecessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie463 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Ha! I was just thinking the same thing earlier this week. I ordered an early elementary astronomy reference book for DS7 to use this semester. He read the entire thing before bed two nights ago! My planning looks like this: have a general plan (in my head) and then just go with the flow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mélie Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 My boys are much more linear learners than most seem to be on here, but I've still given up on an actual schedule. It's more of a flow chart at this point. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 I will keep the next thing in stock around here, in things that they will go through anyway. Even if they do 25 pages in a day. LMAO And if one skips some, then maybe the other or one of the 11 grand babies will use it. < Insane Cackle HERE> I wish we could use, used curriculum. My sons severe asthma will not allow much of that. SIGH ! Luckily about 85% of our homeschool materiel is literature for any and all subjects. Not consumable stuff, so they will get read again, and again, and again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 Ha! I was just thinking the same thing earlier this week. I ordered an early elementary astronomy reference book for DS7 to use this semester. He read the entire thing before bed two nights ago! My planning looks like this: have a general plan (in my head) and then just go with the flow! I have to hide science books, my son will read them in one sitting too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningmom80 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I'm not planning either. The only thing I have layed out is handwriting and SOTW. Everything else we will just do the next thing. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy_of_4 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I finally learned to stop planning weeks out. I sit down the night before and make a list of what I want him to do the next day but he is welcome to do more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 I'm not planning either. The only thing I have layed out is handwriting and SOTW. Everything else we will just do the next thing. :) The next thing has saved my sanity! The next thing could be 30 lessons later, or 2. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 It really gets fun when they start "doing" on their own. I opened DD's Prentice Hall World History and discovered that she'd read the next four chapters. Plus, as she informed me, the SOTW ones that went with them. I'm a little scared to look in the SOTW activity book (I really hadn't intended on it becoming a workbook, but it won't surprise me if it has). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 It really gets fun when they start "doing" on their own. I opened DD's Prentice Hall World History and discovered that she'd read the next four chapters. Plus, as she informed me, the SOTW ones that went with them. I'm a little scared to look in the SOTW activity book (I really hadn't intended on it becoming a workbook, but it won't surprise me if it has). LOL :lol: WE have extra sheets printed out of the SOTW activity guides, I thought ahead. I have never been able to mark up a book, and the AG's are more like IG's to me than workbooks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I was just looking up some old planning/scheduling threads for inspiration on K-8 board, and none of it was jiving with me. I can't possibly "go thru the curric and divide the number of lessons into the number of days", etc. This is why!!! It was like a lightbulb moment when I read THIS thread! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 I was just looking up some old planning/scheduling threads for inspiration on K-8 board, and none of it was jiving with me. I can't possibly "go thru the curric and divide the number of lessons into the number of days", etc. This is why!!! It was like a lightbulb moment when I read THIS thread! Thanks! There is no dividing here either. I have to add to fast to even be able to count pages. hehe I keep 2 or 3 levels above what we are doing at the moment. I rarely skip things, but will condense as to not cause boredom. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I don't plan nor do I pre-buy anymore!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a27mom Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 This thread is so reassuring. I keep reading on another board about lesson plan books and printing reams of things out etc.. I was honestly becoming confused that I was missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 This thread is so reassuring. I keep reading on another board about lesson plan books and printing reams of things out etc.. I was honestly becoming confused that I was missing something. I am missing something! The planning part. I feel like I am being dragged by the children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I still hold the memory of my first year homeschooling, and that wonderful year plan I spent hours and hours planning. :lol: My planning/prep has now become my own education. I don't put any scheduling in place for certain children, especially certain subjects. I just fill in what we did at the end of the day. It's certainly freed up more time on Sunday nights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsofpumpkins Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 My 3yo is proving that do-the-next-thing is going to be necessary for her. This week she did the entire ETC Book A in 4 days. It's about 80 pages long. She's getting annoyed that I'm trying to stretch out her math by inserting extra practice worksheets in between the lessons in the main workbook. So, yeah, I'm not trying to do much planning for her. (Other than making sure I have enough work for her once she finishes her current stuff!) She LOVES schoolwork, and already plowed through just about everything I had planned for the entire 2012-13 schoolyear. Needless to say, my plans had to be added to very quickly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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