Language arts is the catch-all name for about five different subjects - spelling, writing, grammar, literature/reading instruction, and handwriting. I taught language arts for a while during my teaching career. Schedule the messiest, hardest, or most mom-consuming subjects for nap time.ĥ. School can go from 1-3 and can be done peacefully and with less frustration. If you have two or three young kids and one or more of them still take a long afternoon nap, then don’t start school until the little ones go down. School does not have to start early in the morning. Schedule in story time and a fun activity for your twos, threes, and fours before you get started with the bigger kids. Often a little one-on-one attention from mom goes a long way towards the little one going off to play alone happily for a while. While you work with one, the other’s required task can be to play with little brother or sister and see to their needs for an allotted amount of time.
Older children armed with memory work binders could also lead family recitation time during this period as well. In fact, nursing time is also a great time for mom to be read to, so schedule time for reading aloud for emerging readers during nursing time as well. If you can’t read and nurse at the same time due to a wiggly older baby then pop in an audiobook or allow an older sibling to read. Little ones can play quietly at your feet and everyone can find something to do with their hands. Since we know reading aloud is important up until your older children leave the home, gather everyone together and enjoy this time.
Schedule 3.5 hours of school work into a five hour block. You will most likely not get it done, and you will end up frustrated. Something is going to happen - the washing machine will flood, the dog will escape over the fence, someone will decide this is a great day to have a stage-four math meltdown. You are never going to squeeze five hours of schoolwork into a five hour block. I always try to alternate more taxing tasks with lighter ones to give our brains a break. So while my blocks have a certain order - the subjects within the blocks do not. The next day, the order might be different. If I am using letter tiles in both reading and spelling, then I typically don’t do them back-to-back - just to separate the repetition. I do not micro schedule within the blocks. While I complete the blocks in the same order every day, the order within a block often varies based on what I am doing for that subject on a given day.įor example, if both spelling and Latin require a large amount of writing for that day, then I will put the reading lesson between them to break them up. You can see from the sample schedules in my last post, that our day has four big chunks in it. I like to call specific chunks of time “blocks.” It is easier for me to schedule in the blocks of our day instead of individual subjects. So instead of a hard and fast block that says you will start math at and then do reading at and spelling at, shoot for beginning your first work block sometime between 8 and and then have one thing follow another until you are done. For most, time slots on a chart are only going to frustrate us as life happens and we are constantly thrown off that schedule. So very few of us are going to practically be able to follow a schedule. So here are my 8 best tips for creating a daily plan that inspires you to get things done. If we don’t, the overwhelming nature of the task before us will paralyze us. Yes, having a plan in place is important. All I know for sure is that there are no two homeschool days that are exactly alike and whatever you plan, it will often not go exactly as planned. I wish I could tell you that I have the formula for the perfect homeschool day, but sadly I do not.
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