This year I am doing something different. I'm going to write out a schedule and try to make it work instead of being so free-flow with our subjects.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what subjects to teach each day -- you know what I mean? My son is in 4th, with some 5th in there too. So, do I do reading every day? Should I do history 3x a week? Math 4x?

What helped you to decide??? Have any recommendations or websites to share with me??

We are basically an eclectic mix of Charlotte Mason, The Well Trained Mind, Natural Learning. I'm not strictly any one thing in other words!

I already have curriculum bought for science, history/geography (Social-Studies), spelling/vocabulary, grammar, handwriting. I'm deciding on math right now -- thinking I'm going with Math U See.

We live in GA so our law says we must include: reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science; 4 1/2 hours a day.


Thanks in advance for any help! :)

We will be doing mainly 3rd grade work starting in September. We take the summer off and S is at camp now.

Each week, I aim to do math 4x, writing 4x, grammar 4x, science 2x, history 2x, Ukrainian 4x, art 1x, skating 2x. Each day I try to do some Brain Gym exercises and also some meditation, chanting or relaxation. We are planning to buy a piano and if we do, I will also add 15-20 minutes of piano per day. I like to leave one day free for field trips, outings -- or grocery shopping.

Editing to add my schedule that i posted on another post,

I just finished this years homeschool schedule this is what it looks like fr my 4 this year, grades k, 3rd,6th nd 7th

Monday - Thursday

8:30-9:30 math
9:30-10:30 Social studies/history/ character development(depending on grade and child)
10:30-12 Literature(7th), Spelling/Language arts(3rd and 6th), and writing, sounds (for the kinder)
12-1 lunch tv break
1-2 science
2-3 other(this is the class they get to choose what to learn)


for our other classes this year the kids chose these classes:
on mondays and wednesday they choose a language-younger 3 spanish, 7th grader wants german

On tuesday and thursdays is chorus and performing arts(plays etc)(my kids love to sing and do skits, they also sing for our church so this is a great time to practice before sunday)

Fridays is craft day or cooking day, since this is our last class on fridays this is also the day we will go on field trips instead of doing this class.

Pretty much Fridays are my take it easy day, the weekend is very close and so i like to just wrap up their lessons for the week on this day

With spelling they are given their words on Monday with a fairly large packet of things to do to help them learn their words, i.e. write the defiention, use each word in a sentence kind of pages. On Wednesday we have the pretest to see what still needs work. On thursdays we work on the need help words and Friday they take a test.


Thats my schedule this year, I think it will work pretty good for us.

P.S. i see you are from Olympia, Wa, i grew up in Rainier, Oregon, not to far from you, lived part of my married life in, Kelso, Longview and before we moved here Chehalis, Wa. I use to go to Olympia all the time, never stopped too often but my kids loved to go for car rides so we would drive on I-5 back and forth almost to Seattle and turn around. LOL the things we do for our kids, if id only known how precious gas was back then. I sure aint going cruisin nowadays.
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I tried to cut and paste my schedule from microsoft works spreedsheets for you. Didn't turn out all that great but you get the idea. I have it in a grid like a school planner.

We use MUS for Math
McRuffy for Language Arts (includes all LA subjects including reading)
Library for silent Reading
Beautiful Feet for history (TM redesigned by me to include crafts)
Mcruffy for science
and Big book of spanish workbook

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Andrew
Math Math Math Math Math
Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts
Silent Reading Silent Reading Silent Reading Silent Reading Silent Reading
Taekwondo Taekwondo

Nyah
Math Math Math Math Math
Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts


Both
History Science History Science History
Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish

This is my system after 3 years of trial and error. This is what works for me the best. There is a box for every subject and I just fill in which lesson we will be doing on a weekly basis.

Thanks to all for the great advice!

If others have thoughts/examples/websites ---- PLEASE post and share!!! :)

Trying to figure out the same thing for k/1st. I have no idea what to do when yet. it'll be the first year I've done anything structured really - the kids want to make sure to include sign language and french. :)

Our schedule is pretty flexible but the basis of it is that we cover one main subject a day for each day of the week.

Monday- Silent Reading, Daily Journal, Social Studies, pick a Karma Card (which they have a week to work on), Spelling for Chelle, playgroup, work on SpiralScouts badges, and Bret volunteers at the Wildlife Rescue and does two daily Vocabulary words (or all 10 on one day for the whole week).

I've also started adding a daily Tea Time where we read poetry, plan on starting a weekly Learning Wall, and we will be doing unit study notebooks and lapbooks. Everyone also has daily chores that are counted towards Home Ec. lol

Tuesday- Silent Reading, Daily Journal, Science, Chelle does Reading Comp and a little Math, Bret does his Vocabulary words, visit Library, and Philosophy every other week.

Wednesday- Silent Reading, Daily Journal, Algebra and Math, Vocabulary for both, Sign Language for Chelle, and Wildlife Rescue volunteering for both.

Thursday- Silent Reading, Daily Journal, Language Arts, Health for Chelle, Literature for Bret, Vocabulary for Bret, Japanese for Bret, both will be starting Copywork when we start our new school year, playgroup

Friday- Silent Reading, Daily Journal, Vocabulary for Bret, Spelling for Chelle, Religious Studies for both (we take a month to study a different religion so we can learn about all of them), Art, Music, Wildlife Rescue volunteering for both every other week, and this is the day for field trips as well where we will just dump everything and go have fun.

I know it looks like alot written down but the kids are always done by around 11am and bored if it's not a volunteer day.

Aidan (who will be preschool) has pretty mellow days and will continue to. I have workbooks that he loves to use, I'm making file folder games for him that will teach matching, counting, shapes, and sorting (which he mostly already knows but I think will still find fun), he likes learning to write his name, we play board games, I read to him TONS, and he "writes" in a journal for SpiralScouts and works on badges too.

When we work on our notebooks and lapbooks I will consider those to cover several subjects (obviously) so at those times we won't have certain days for subjects we'll just have fun making the notebooks and lapbooks.

With the learning wall we'll have a Latin word each week, a Spanish word, a composer/musician, an artist and a work of their art, and several other things that we can look at and learn from.

I can't wait to get started! I think I'm more excited than the kids! LOL.

Thanks so much for sharing Jo!

I'm trying really hard to keep things in perspective, make sure he's learning what he nees to learn, progressing, yet remaining open, imaginative, interested, engaged, and hopefully even delighted. Quite a challenge!!!

:)

I'm doing the same thing this year. I will have 2nd and 3rd grades. Last school year we were pretty loose about schedules and just made sure we had the required hours and subjects in each week. This school year I have a new baby so I think it would be best for me to at least get our school day somewhat organized since all other schedules are pretty much out the window! I printed out some blank weekly schedules from homeschoolmom.com.

On another list I'm on a mama shared this:

So for my young kids it end up looking like a table with 3 things
>per day... hardest things first.. then easier stuff paired up with
>that. so it might look like this.
>
> Monday, Math, latin/spelling, reading/history
> Tuesday, Math, Science, Reading/history
> Wed., Math, Grammar/spelling, Reading/history
> Thurs, Math, Science, reading/history
> Friday, Outside activity or reading, learning games



This is the type of information I was hoping to hear from folks. What subjects they do and when, how many times in a week they try to do them, etc.

:)

We do Sonlight, so we do History daily, along with Bible, literature, and reading. We were sporadic with math and science this year, going through stretches of doing a lot, then none.

For next year, I'm thinking we'll do something like this:

Mon: Sonlight (history, Bible, literature, reading), science, First Language Lessons
Tues: Sonlight, math, handwriting
Wed: Sonlight, science, First Language lessons
Thurs: Sonlight, math, handwriting
Friday: Sonlight, science, First Language lessons

We're likely going to do Spanish, and I haven't worked out our "other stuff" schedule (classes, lessons, etc) to see how this will fit. If it starts getting crowded, I'll pull Sonlight down to 2-3 days a week.

Well I do not hav this years exact schedule down yet, but last year we did the following. ( i kept my weeks general plan in a daily planner and made changes to it as needed) I NEVER thought of keeping track of chores for home Ec!! lol! a great idea! I loosely keep records by storing what DS has completed. It is not yet a requirement for us (We live in Texas)

We school 4 days out of the week, roughly.

Mon - Math, Spelling, Writing, Grammar, Silent reading, historical reading, art, 10-15 min piano practice
Tues - Math, Spelling, Writing, Grammar, Silent reading, historical reading, History, tap dance, 10-15 min piano practice
Wed - Math, Spelling, Writing, Grammar, Silent reading, historical reading, music, 10-15min piano practice
Thurs - Math, Spelling, Writing, Grammar, Silent reading, historical reading, science, 10-15min piano practice, tap dance and gymnastics
Fri - Spelling Test, field trips, fun day! (we might wrap something up that we didn't finish this day too)