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Advice for Yearly Plan (Year 2)
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I’m working my way through Planning Your CM Education and am working on Your Term. In the past I’ve not done much planning or even accountability. We didn’t start regular learning to read until this past January and we’ve never been a ‘5 days a week’ kind of homeschool…yet. I think that now they are in 2nd grade it is time to work on that. So…I made a plan for a year of homeschooling and I would love advice. My thought is we’ll do 5 days a week in the fall and winter, and 3 days a week in spring and summer. I have some planned weeks off (based on holidays, my older children’s public school schedule and my notes from this year about how much I want to be outside in the spring and not doing inside learning things). But with all this we have only 170 planned days of school and our state requires 180. Honestly I’m not a stickler to the rules (I mean, it isn’t uncommon for us to do school work on a weekend if we’re in the mood), but it seems it would be nice for the schedule to actually show 180 days. I just can’t figure out where to put it where it in. I’d love your thoughts on the overall plan (given this is my first attempt at being all organized like this 🙂 ) and where to find 10 more days. Thanks!!
Term 1: Autumn is for New Beginnings, Steady Routines. Focus is on history, science and writing.
Aug 26 to Oct 4 (6 weeks)
OFF Oct 7 to 11 (1 week)
Oct 14 to Nov 22 (6 weeks)
OFF Nov 25 to 29 (1 week)
Term 2: Winter is for Snuggled Reading. Focus is on literature, history, science and writing.
Dec 2 to Dec 20 (3 weeks)
OFF Dec 23 to Jan 3 (2 weeks)
Jan 6 to Feb 21 (7 weeks)
OFF Feb 24 to Feb 28. Testing during this week.
Term 3: Spring is for Nature. Focus is on nature study, being outside and deep cleaning the house.
March 3 to 28 (4 weeks)
OFF March 31 to April 4 (1 week) (Spring Break for older kids)
April 7 to June 6 (9 weeks)
Term 4: Summer is for Family. Focus is on travel, extended family, family work projects and relaxed routines.
June 9 – Aug 23 (11 weeks total, of which four are vacation)
My happy suggestion is to find ten short excursions (field trips.) These could be scheduled on your OFF weeks, but might count toward the ten days of school needed. ? If you find places or events that would tie toward history, science, art, or music, you’d be able to have them do oral/written narrations, draw, or otherwise document what they learned each of those days as proof if that is needed.
Hopeful that helps,
Becca<><
That seems like a great suggestion for the obviously educational kinds of field trips (AND a great reminder to take such field trips!). What about those kinds of adventures like ‘play in the creek for three hours’? We always find interesting animals (crawfish, mudpuppy, salamanders, etc) and I fully believe it is an important part of our spring/summers, but I’ve not thought of them as ‘homeschooling days’ if we haven’t also gotten at least some other work at home done. Maybe I just ask them to make an entry into their nature journal? Or what about shows like ‘Chinese acrobatics’…We discuss it but don’t do anything additional. But often on those days our routine is messed up and we just don’t end up doing anything else homeschool-y. Maybe I just need to figure out what I feel is enough to be considered educational even if it isn’t the phonics/math/history on the schedule. Hmmm. Thanks for your suggestion!
Reconsidering what is education like you said is a good idea. In TN, I have to do 180 days 4 hours per day even for elementary. I use an umbrella school and they suggest that activities such as chores, cooking with you, helping Daddy work on the car, etc. easily fill up and exceed the 4 hours requirement. Life is education after all.
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