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CM Organizer Scheduling
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Hi Everyone,
Like a typical oldest child ;), I watched all the videos on the CM Organizer and am now trying it, using the free trial. (LOVE IT, btw!!)
My question is really for my oldest, who is 14yo. She does her own scheduling and would like to assign herself more than one chapter at a time in some subjects. Is this possible to do, or does she just have to click a chapter as ‘complete’ and then click another one?
Just click off all the ones she reads. Unless she wants to schedule her own resource and just set it up as Ch. 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, etc. I don’t see what the point of that is, but I’m not 14. 😉
Thank-you. I thought that was probably the answer. She is really after something that she can use to assign herself specific tasks to be able to accomplish a goal by a certain date. So, for example, she would want to be able to tell the scheduler that she wants to finish The Secret Garden by the end of March, reading it every Monday and Wednesday and it could tell her she needed to complete 3 chapters each of these days. (Just making these details up.)
That’s not very Charlotte Mason of her. LOL
Actually, for that type of thing she’d be better off with a standard school-ish planner. The benefit of the CM Planner is that you don’t have that type of stringent planning. If you read 3 chapters today and none tomorrow, no problem. You don’t have to reschedule anything. Assignments are there for you to do or not do or do a whole lot. Either way, it doesn’t mess up the schedule.
Tell your dd she’s conforming too much to the firstborn stereotype and to shake it up wiht this awesome planner. lol
LOL!! I hear you (and agree) — love the planner for exactly these reasons. Anyway, the reason she doubles up is because she has a certain amount of work to complete this year and she has a number of social activities that take her out of the house. (We’ll be cutting back next year.) She likes to have her ‘school work’ done by the end of May.
She has been hsed CM-style since the beginning, so she does know well the benefits of ‘lingering’ over good literature. 🙂
I think then that she will have to decide herself how many chapters each day and how many days per week to finish the book and then create the divisions labeled with each chunk of the book she needs to read – or just for now she could use homeschool tracker – it’s free.
Okay…I need some more help.
Am I doing something wrong? We are working with Greenleaf’s Guide to the Old Testament. We are on lesson 93, so I tell it to schedule lessons 93-196 and then when I click on ‘Daily Plan’, it shows us that we should do lesson 1, while right above, it is showing that we are working on lessons 93-196. What is going wrong? Is this just a glitch?
Okay. It was definitely a glitch because I had the same problem with one of the kids Italic Handwriting book. The problem seemed to arise when I scheduled it in initially as using all the lessons, then went to find out where the child was exactly in the resource, then tried to change it to reflect the new lesson starting place. It reflected the change in one place, but left the ‘daily plan’ the same no matter what I tried to do (unless I just told it we’d completed the lessons, but in the case of the Greenleaf thing, I didn’t want to have to click it 92 times.)
I got around the problem by deleting the resource entirely and then re-scheduling it with the correct lesson starting place right from the beginning (as opposed to trying to change it).
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