Truelight Academy Home Education Guide
"Our balanced approach to life and learning for a Latter-day Saint Home Education."

~Scheduling~

Scheduling makes life so much easier for our family.  We have been blessed from the advice found in the book, Managers of Their Homes by Steven and Teri Maxwell.  See my Beacon Book Review for it, I highly recommend the book. 

We make schedules and plans for all aspects of our life, but especially to help our homeschool function smoothly.  Below you can find some suggestions and samples as to how we go about this. 

Planning Our Homeschool Year

We schedule our year with 3 terms (12 weeks each).  The terms run from September to November, January to March, and April to June, with December, July and August off.  During the "months off" we spend time on extra learning activities such as doing more handicrafts, gardening, nature walks, Christmas school (in December), and so on.

I have found wonderful planning sheets to use at Donna Young's Homeschool Printables & Resources

In the spring of each year I spend time making decisions as to what subjects will be studied the following year, and what curriculum we will use to accomplish our goals.  I get input from my children and let them have a part in setting their own learning goals.  Then I go about purchasing and gathering curriculum at the beginning of the summer.  Our new school year begins in September.

To help myself keep organized and be able to plan and schedule all I need to do (there is a lot to balance when you are a homeschool mom), I use a FranklinCovey Planner.  This tool is extremely helpful to me and it allows me to make weekly and daily adjustments to our schedule as needed.  
http://www.franklincovey.com/
 
 

Sample Daily Schedule for Wednesday 


 
Mom
13yos
9yos
5yod
 5:00am
Morning Routine Sleep Sleep Sleep
6:00am
Computer Time Sleep Sleep Sleep
6:30am
Computer Time Morning Routine Sleep Sleep
7:00am
Computer Time Saxophone practice Morning Routine Morning Routine
8:00am
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
8:30am
Chores Dishes Chores Chores
9:00am
Teach 5yod Learning Time Learning Time Learning Time
10:00am
Teach 9yos Learning Time Learning Time Free
12:00pm
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00pm
Teach 9yos & 5yod Cello practice Learning Time Learning Time
2:00pm
Piano with 5yod Learning Time Learning Time Piano practice
2:30pm
Viola with 9yos Learning Time Viola practice Free
3:00pm
Chores Learning Time Piano practice Free
4:00pm
Prepare to go Learning Time Free Prepare to go
5:00pm
Dance lessons 5yod Free & Chores Free Dance lessons
6:30pm
Return home Dinner Dinner Return home
7:00pm
Dinner & Dishes Scouts Cubs Dinner
8:00pm
To do list Scouts Wait Free
8:30pm
To do list Return home Return home Free
9:00pm
Devotional Devotional Devotional Devotional
9:30pm
Bedtime Routine Bedtime Routine Bedtime Routine Bedtime Routine
10:00pm
Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep

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