Schedule and Planning

So do I keep a schedule?  Yes and no.  I was excited about thinking we could have a laid back home-school schedule and be able to run errands in the morning and then come back home and work on school.  It turns out that this does not work for SM.  She thinks that if we run some errands first thing in the morning that we don't have to work on school work that day.  This usually turned into knock-down-drag-out fights (not really, but it kind of felt like that sometimes).

I don't follow a strict schedule though.  We have a Bible study (I usually try to start with this, in hopes that it gets are minds/hearts in the right place).  We review our CC memory work (at least 20 minutes), math (goal is about 30 minutes or no more than 5 pages in her math workbook), reading (at least 30 minutes for her and I read to her for 30 minutes).  Somewhere in there I have her writing things.  Last year was mostly copy-work, but this year I will have her writing simple sentences as well.  The copy-work was usually done while I was reading to her.  We were usually done with school by lunch time every day.

I'm not a big planner either.  I do have goals that I want SM to meet each year, but I don't have a time frame for them.  Last year she met her math goal by the Christmas break and finished her reading lesson book by the end of January.  That didn't mean we were done with school though.  I added different programs and books into the mix.  

I do tons of research on homeschooling resources, but I don't seem to put it to use very well.  I subscribe to several homeschooling blogs.  I have several homeschooling themed boards on Pinterest (I have more home-school boards then anything else).  I follow some CC channels on YouTube.  I tend to go week to week with the CC subjects and even day to day with the other stuff.  I fill in my planner as we go (it's more for documentation purposes).  The most planning I seem to do is when we go to the library every 3 weeks - planning out the books that correlate with the next 3 weeks of CC.

This year is going to be different.  I'm going to be a substitute tutor for CC this year.  I'm a little nervous because as I've said - I'm not a planner!!! (Ssshhh, don't tell my CC Director).  My goal is to be prepared each week for CC in case I get the call.  I think this will be good for us, because that will just have me more prepared for the week with SM. So wish me luck!  We start back next week!