Did you all start school yet?  Every year I make our homeschooling schedule and determine that we’re going to really stick to it this year.  Then unexpected happenings occur and the schedule has to be thrown out. Over and over and over again. :)  But even if I don’t stick to “the schedule” completely, I still find it useful. We homeschool year-round but I think it’s nice to have a definite day to say we’ve started. The kids look forward to the fresh beginning, too. Here are my students this year.  and Wesley…   It was a very hectic and busy week for me since I was a part of many of the subjects. We had Tuesday Tea (you can read here about our poetry tea’s). The kids…

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After I made my 12 week schedule for our Middle Ages unit study (see this post - Keeping Organized with Schedules – Part 1), I then did another spreadsheet that shows me what we should be doing at what time.  I put the times in to help keep me on track.  You could also do a schedule that showed general blocks of time, for instance:  8:30-12:00a.m. Unit Study, 1:00-3:00p.m. Independent Study. As I said, I did mine with specific times for each part of our unit study to help me to be able to just move from one thing to another without having to put any thought into what is next on the agenda. On my spreadsheet I made 5 columns across the top.  The first column heading says Time and the other…

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