Homeschool Planning & Scheduling: Day 4

"Coming Together"

So, my eclectic plan consists of taking the 4-1hour blocks idea from the Foundations Guide at Classical Conversations, combining it with Half a Hundred Acre Wood's Cycle 1 Planner, Teaching the Trivium schedules, and other great idea from other Homeschooling Mommies! (See Day 3 of this series) I began by grouping each subject into the correct block and then splitting each day. This is my end result:

Purple is for E

Blue is for S

Greene is for W

Yellow is for All

My 4-1 hour block are:

1) Morning Read Aloud Time

2) Grammar Review and Notebooking

3) Language Arts

4) Math

We also have an hour of free reading time in the afternoon

Homeschool Planning and Scheduling - Day 3

!!!Send Out the Search Party!!!

Sometimes looking for the right schedule to fit your home school is like looking for a needle in a haystack! 

Sometimes you just have to gather your resources and come up with your own thing. You know how women are, we like to brainstorm and get ideas from other women.

First: I asked some other Homeschooling Mommies I know how they did things and this is what I found out..

Homeschool Planning and Scheduling - Day 2

What's The Big Idea?

The next step in this process was to determine exactly what I would be teaching. This will be my first year with all 3 kiddos in "school". So, after the panic settled I started with my curriculum choices.

We will have a 3rd grader, 1st grader, and Kindergartner. Our days will be busy, hectic at times, and even seemingly unproductive, but I'm a firm believer in working hard as unto the Lord.

Phonics/Reading

In the past, I have used Saxon Phonics, which I loved, however I find it difficult when you are having to teach multiple levels. We are also traveling a great deal with my husband and I nearly needed an extra suitcase just for our Saxon materials!

So, for teaching Phonics, we now use something called Reading Lessons Through Literature. It is an Orton phonogram program teaching reading through spelling. It is complete with spelling lists and short stories taken from The Elson Readers all in one book!