School Planning

Summer is quickly coming to an end. For us homeschoolers that means time to plan and prepare for our upcoming school year.  I’m a bit overwhelmed this year as normally I am done with this by now, but this year that is not the case. With just 4 weeks left until school starts I am scampering to wrap this up. 

I’ll have 7 students this year. This is the most I will probably ever have at a time. (whew!!) I’ll have two highschoolers as Shayden will be in 9th, (How did that happen?) one jr high, and four elementary.

For my high schoolers and jr higher I’m trying something new called Homeschool Tracker. Its taking some work right now to input everything for an entire year but when I don’t have to think twice about lesson plans the rest of the year it will be worth it.  It’s not necessary to create lesson plans for the whole school year but I’ve done this for the last several years and found that the amount of work I put into it over the summer pays off when I don’t have to worry about it during the busyness of the school year. Come December I also plan on cuddling a new little one and the last thing I’ll want to think about is lesson plans!

For my younger students I’m still using my binder system. We’ve been doing this for a few years and I love it. It has taken away the dread I used to feel on Sunday nights as I prepared for our new week of school. Now all I do it grab the folder for the month of work they are doing and load binders! Viola!

Hopefully I can get this all completed in the next couple of weeks so I can spend the last week before school starts relaxing with my kiddos! This is what my dining table has been looking like. Somehow we have still managed to eat! That’s always a good thing! I’m  a good girl and have my water bottle and my jar of pregnancy tea here to sip on throughout the many hours of planning. 

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