After 3 weeks of school and reworking the schedule twice, I came up with a hybrid between a loop schedule and the @adelectableeducation scheduling cards, by stacking cards together in groups by time needed per lesson and by number of lessons per week.

Now I have a schedule that goes in the same order each day (much less overwhelming to me) yet allows the broad feast of lessons and still alternates activities by which part of the brain they use. 🎉🎉😊😊

our old copy of Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins was torn beyond mending, so I gave it new life decorating the schedule.

Questions:

Is this a weekly rotation ?

Both daily & weekly. The big words are the daily routine, Small next to them, I wrote how many minutes the lesson takes. Then the small words are the weekly loop, so when it is time for History, we do American, Ancient, American, World history or Geography, (I think I accidentally wrote government and need to change it) depending what we did yesterday. We just loop through the list. For reading, some days they have a specific book, so I wrote it to remind myself. Some days they can choose a book from a small stack of biographies and historical fiction that correspond to the time period in history that we are studying. I didn’t write that because I don’t have to remember it 🙂. Math and reading are on the same line because each student is taking turns reading or watching babies while I do math with someone.

Why make a poster instead of a checklist in a binder?

I need something big hanging on the wall that I can read from across the room. —for some reason I hate looking inside my binder to see what is next. I put the scheme on a dry erase poster for a week while I made sure it worked. Taking the time to make a pretty one was a gift to myself this weekend.

What kind of stuff is in the Afternoon Occupations category?

They have some required and then a list of optional that they must choose one from. This has to be completed to earn screen time for the day. Required afternoon occupations are: Piano practice, play with the twins for 30 min, play outside 1 hour (they can combine that with playing with the twins, win.win.) housecleaning chore, read 30 mins.

Choose one addl: make entry in nature journal, 30 min drawing, 30 min handicraft (right now it’s cross stitch) 15 min extra cleaning. I’m thinking of adding research project to the choice list

First “afternoon tea” of the year was a bit chaos and a bit beautiful. I loved it. Also, nilla wafers are pretty yummy alongside orange spice herbal tea #afternoontea #charlottemasonliving #poetryteatime #homeschoolrocks

Sometimes the toddler activity is fun for older siblings —squishy giant tapioca pearls for the win.

Idea from

http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/02/edible-water-beads.html?m=1

#twinboys #toddlerfun #busytoddler