Looking for ideas for a checklist for independent work…

I have a chart with all the subjects and dd writes what she has done for the day. That way I also know what lesson/page she did. It is on my other computer but if you want to PM me your email address I can send it to you in the morning.

Also, donnayoung.org has a lot of different planner forms.

I have a checklist I made myself, and come to think of it I need to make a simplified version for our 7YO and 6YO. Anyway, I don’t laminate b/c it is our record of what we’ve done, but I do have one week on one page so the paper trail is not too long. I use front/back and divide by days. And it really does have checkboxes.

If you use the zapf dingbat font, you can make a checkbox using the shift/q keys. It is kind of scary how much I love using that checkbox for list making.

I am finishing up our lists this weekend hopefully. I also have a master list for each child, and it has their reading books, science and math texts (and secondarly materials) and living books, etc. activities like taekwondo, Bible drill, etc. I use it just as an at-a-glance of what we did for the year. It has been fun for the children, myself and DH to look back at all they truly did accomplish this past year. And it is also a record should I ever need one of waht we are actually doing.

Oh and I’d be happy to email you a pdf if you wanted an idea that might spur you onto something even greater. I also turn my paper landscape b/c I find it makes it easier to fit things on a longer line. I also have space at the bottom of each weekly plan page for a field trip box and indie reading log. HTH

Someone posted a link to the peaceful mom site earlier. This link has free printable forms that might work for you. http://thepeacefulmom.com/organize/

Also, it’s my understanding that forms can be printed from the CMO. That seems helpful. Once they check it off, you’d have a record to take back to the computer to enter and create the new chart each day.

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@Christie:

You use the SCMO, am I correct? So, how much extra work did it require to take what you put there and create the checklist in your pdf?

Same as jawgee: “I make a schedule in Excel, laminate it/use a page protector, and then let my children use dry erase markers to check off the things they have done as they work through the list.”

Each of my children have their own tote with a handle, it contains their math book/copywork binder, reading books, etc.  They get their tote out in the morning, check off things as they are done, and move on to the next one without having to ask me what to do next.  Their schedule goes into the clear front of the copywork binder.  It has each day of the week on it with a simple schedule and checkmarks next to each item.  I don’t have to write specific lessons because they know where they are in their books, just for example Mon.  MUS: mom checks, reading: narrate for mom, etc. 

This has always thrown off the whole written schedule idea for us.

That’s exactly why I have been using an online organizer that will just bump assignments to the next scheduled day if they are not logged as completed. However, that is also why, when I write up our daily list to post on the refrigerator, I usually only list the subject name. Then I have to look on the computer if we are doing anything more than just reading for a subject. (My physical bookmark tells me where we left off in any given book.)

Sorry, that doesn’t help with the independent worker concept, does it? Unless the child is able/allowed to log in and check the computer for herself/himself….