Lets Talk Homeschool

This year we are doing something we’ve always “planned” to do, but has never panned out.  That is, we are schooling 4 weeks on, 1 week off*.

The plan is that approximately every 4 weeks I will take one week to plan out the next four weeks.  I began working on that today and let me tell you, right now the plan seems like a great one!  The plans are simple:

• Input all work for the next four weeks (We use Homeschool tracker and love it!)
• Create all notebooking pages for the next four weeks.
• Locate worksheets, readings, articles, etc. for the next four weeks.
• Print out anything that needs printed out and sort (for the next four weeks).
• Create a list of books, videos, CDRoms from the library that will aid in our studies.
• Locate any books in the house that we may use.
• Organize any crafts and/or recipes we may use.

And the best part:

• Once the four weeks are here, sit back, relax and learn with the kids without feeling stressed and running around trying to locate items I have forgotten or have ahem…lost.

This is definitely going to take some getting used to and we are, as is par for the course, open for any rabbit trails, but as for right now I can see how great this new plan is going to be!!

* 4 weeks on/1 week off is a relative term.