A couple scheduling questions

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  • June 25, 2012 at 9:20 pm
    eawerner
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    I got my trial started up and managed to get most of my resources scheduled during nap time today. woo hoo! 🙂

    There are a couple I’m not sure the best way to do though.

    Copywork – right now we just work on a hymn, poem, or whatever until it’s done. I don’t have all the selections picked out ahead of time and don’t care how many we get done. So should I enter my resource with no divisions and just click ‘worked on’ every day for the school year so it is never completed and disappears? Or guestimate how many days we will work on it and enter that many lessons to check ‘completed’ every day?

    Scripture memory – same problem I guess… I want to have the reminder to work on it but don’t want to have to figure it all out ahead of time or enter each selection in the CMO.

    Map drill and Nature Walks also – the goal is once a week so should I just enter 36 ‘lessons’ even though I don’t care if it really gets done 36 times and if we do it 40 times that’s fine too.

    Any suggestions?

    June 25, 2012 at 9:38 pm
    Bookworm
    Participant

    Actually, for all of the above, I just enter a resource and check “worked on” each day we do work on it.  But then I’m for very, very simple.  I just want to know that the item pops up on my list reminding me to work on it, I don’t care how “far” we get, so we just click “worked on” 

    June 25, 2012 at 9:53 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    I think I searched in the bookfinder, and there was a resource called “copywork” with 100 divisions with no details.  (either that, or I made my own like that.) – I just put in the notes what they did, or not even bother.

    Scripture memory – I put scriptures in – I made several divisions, and when I would decide on the next few, I’d edit the details in the resource.

    I think for Nature Study I put 36 divisions or something like that (can’t remember)

    I haven’t done map drill – but did something similar….

    I have done a variety of things for things like music practice….  (scheduling in divisions called “months” – with the months in, and click “worked on”, until the last practice of the month….    Another one I did, was 31 divisions for “day” and marked it complete…   For the 100 day challenges we do, I have one with 100 divisions of “day” and mark each day done (removing the resource if we miss a day, and therefore not completing the challenge….) – right now I just gave up… sigh….

     

    June 25, 2012 at 10:18 pm
    Rachel White
    Participant

    I would do the same as Bookworm (and have ).

    June 26, 2012 at 1:13 am
    LindseyD
    Participant

    I would also do the same as Bookworm.

    One thing for map study that I do is to schedule 10 divisions for each map we’re learning. For example, we learned the Middle East and Asia this past year. On Mondays we have map study, so I would mark “worked on” for that map. Then on Thursdays we have the actual map drill, so I click “finished”, making a note of whatever new countries were added for the week. The Middle East was learned in less than 10 drills, and it took about 15 drills for Asia. 🙂 That just goes to show you that, though you may try, it is not always possible to perfectly schedule your resources…but that’s real life and real homeschooling.

    June 26, 2012 at 1:26 am
    missceegee
    Participant

    I’m an oddball. I didn’t like just worked on. I made divisions by Month and clicked worked on during the month and finished at months end. This kept the number of boxes manageable. 

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