Daily Records

Shew!  It's almost 5 pm and school is finally complete for today.  My emails are all sent/replied to concerning gymnastics.  Dinner is... not even in the process but I feel as if we just ate lunch.  I am going to take a few moments for myself.

I was chatting with a couple great gals the other day about homeschooling: our scheduling, curriculum, stress, etc.  I mentioned to them that I stopped writing out all of my lesson plans ahead of time.  I now write down everything that gets accomplished during the day AFTER it is done.  It makes us accountable to this little piece of paper.  If a subject is not done, the space stays empty, staring aback at me as a blank, incomplete hole in our day... which sometimes turns into a week.  I should stop babbling and show you what I am talking about.

Name _____________________________ Date _______________________________

Subject	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Bible
Piano
Math
English
Science
History/ Geography
Reading/ Literature
Spelling/ Vocabulary
P.E.
Extra

*I have absolutely no idea how to add a pdf document on here so I had to just copy and paste.  Sorry!*
I print out one of these per week for my children.  I write everything down on here that gets done.  Today, I look back and can see that Rebecca didn't do spelling or vocab but she did do 2 lessons in English, and that both girls are waiting until bedtime to read. 

I still write out lesson plans for history and science and those are written out, broken up by days and we fit in what we can during the time period I have set aside for those subjects. This can be stressful or fun, depending on how you look at it.  I am using the states SOL scope and sequence for the girls history and geography as a backbone, but am truly making it up as I go along!  (insert panicked face)  Rebecca does Apologia Gen. science with a friend so they work together making the lesson plans for me virtually nil.  Emily's science... well, let's just say that I will be up late tonight pulling it all together for the next month.  She finished A beka's health 4 today and I do not know what she will be using for the rest of the year.  ( She really doesn't like A Beka so I will probably come up with my own curriculum using that book as the spine.  Think Charlotte Mason :o)
The girls are both using Saxon Math, and those are divided into daily lessons making it essentially lesson plan-free for me.  The same goes for Emily's English.  Rebecca's English book is not broken out into lessons so I took the suggested teaching schedule in the back of the teacher book and use that.  I write each lesson # in the bottom of every page so she knows what to do each day without question.
The girls spelling and vocab books are a go at your own pace sorta book so that is just what they are doing. 
Don't think that I am getting completely lax.  The girls are getting more school in during a day that they have in a long time.  And with our new schedule, I am finding more time to get the things that I need to do (but not those things that I prefer to do like napping cleaning).

If my lesson planner isn't what you are looking for, try some here on donnayoung.org. I love her website!