Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-12T23:59:59-05:00
Location: LaGrange, KY

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June 16, 2012 at 5:27 pm
missceegee
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@Amanda – Thank you. Copy away.
@Sue – I no longer use the CMO as I’m trying hard to spend less time online. I have a 12 week term outline chart for each child (& family work) that I prepare during my yearly planning. I then take 3 weeks of that work and made the simple mini-term checklist. You could easily do this weekly, I suppose, but this works for our 3 on-1 off schedule.
- 12 Week Term Outline Chart – https://www.box.com/s/a3b675f128a91c2fed1e
- Mini-Term Checklist – https://www.box.com/s/5dddbeb142ccee2026fb
I color coded the weeks on the mini-term checklist to give an idea of when it should be done, but if we get behind, we just keep going. I print the new mini-term checklist once the previous one is complete.
It took me a while to tweak to what I want, but this is working superbly for us now.
@Hidden Jewel – I made it on my Mac in pages, but Word would work just as well. I divided the page into two columns and just typed it in. My mini-term checklists have the lesson numbers but not the dates. I don’t really care what day it’s done as long as it gets done. We do have a general routine we follow, but this type of checklist means we aren’t ever behind. It’s like the CMO, but on paper for me.
Hope that helps.
Christie
June 16, 2012 at 5:30 pm
HiddenJewel
Participant
Thanks. So it doesn’t mess you up if one subject gets completely done for the week but another subject doesn’t? Does anything extra just end up as homework on the weekend?
June 16, 2012 at 5:39 pm
Sue
Participant
@Christie:
I’m trying to spend less time online, too, but if I had to type up charts for everyone, I would probably spend more time on the computer because I seem to have to line things up, color-code this, change the font for that, and add a border….no, that looks odd….take off the border….how about color-coding their names…..maybe I should add another one of those…..get the idea? I should’ve been a graphic designer!
@HiddenJewel:
I have used Homeschool Skedtrack for a couple of years now. It’s not perfect, but it does keep track of what we’re doing and what we’ve completed, as long as I make sure to check off things and add in things like co-ops and special projects. Here’s the link to their website: http://www.homeschoolskedtrack.com/
June 16, 2012 at 5:40 pm
HiddenJewel
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I have used Homeschool Skedtrack for a couple of years now. It’s not perfect, but it does keep track of what we’re doing and what we’ve completed, as long as I make sure to check off things and add in things like co-ops and special projects. Here’s the link to their website: http://www.homeschoolskedtrack.com/
Thanks.
June 16, 2012 at 6:14 pm
pslively
Participant
We have a nice board hanging on the wall where I write everyone’s assignments for the day. They just erase it as they get done. I like this because I can see at a glance where everyone is at for the day. I am visual and have to be able to see it.
June 16, 2012 at 6:25 pm
missceegee
Participant
@Hidden Jewel – If we get behind in something, we just try to finish it up before moving on to anything else. We school 3 weeks on and 1 week off, so if we don’t get our 3 weeks of work done, we don’t have a full off week. When we finish up what was lagging we move on. There have been a couple of times that for whatever reason, I dropped something for a full week or two and I will just move it to the next mini-term checklist in black to indicate it’s a leftover. Works for me anyway.
@Sue – I cannot imagine that anyone could be more particular than I am. I did tweak and play around with it a lot, but now that the basice format is done, I just change out chapters and books every three weeks. I might spend an hour or hour and a half each three weeks getting the new ones typed up, but it’s better than any other method I’ve used for us.
June 16, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Janell
Participant
I am using an ipad app called Index Card. It allows me to make digital index cards (one per subject). I use email to print and to keep for records. I make master checklists index cards (like the lessons in a math text) and copy and paste from that to the weekly cards. It is visual and done from my ipad (offline except for emailing records). Each card is edited at the end of the week and journal entries are added too for more details. The index cards can be printed in advance as independent (ipad free) checklists formatted as one document.
June 16, 2012 at 9:23 pm
suzisue
Participant
@Christie:
Thank-you for sharing your forms. Your checklist has everything I could possibly want but have never managed on my own – at least not with only 2 pages! I will definitely be copying your idea. Do you save these checklists for your record keeping?
I am leaning towards doing a 3 week on and one week off schedule like you are using. I had been planning on a 6 week on and one week off schedule, but I’m concerned I’ll burn out and get behind even with that kind of schedule. I just marked off a 3 week on/1 week off schedule on a calendar and I love how it worked out, although I have some minor concerns about doing school over part of the summer, which is our nicest time of the year. Have you come across any negatives to your schedule?
Thanks!
Sue
June 16, 2012 at 9:25 pm
HiddenJewel
Participant
I penciled out 3 on / 2 off as well as was bummed it won’t work for us. Summers are way too short here and so I am back to my 9 on then a break.
June 16, 2012 at 11:33 pm
LDIMom
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Someone asked about dates and getting behind. I don’t use dates LOL! The first year, I used dates and I learned my lessson.
I do use a weekly plan where I have a put “Week of _____________________________”. (this way we add in the dates as we go).
If we miss a week or take a week off, then we are not behind. We just date as we go.
I have a new plan to copy my oldest son’s TOCs on his science and grammar texts and then import them into a document scaled down, then add _________ before each chapter/lesson where he can date as he does each one. He needs a bit more accountability this year.
June 16, 2012 at 11:34 pm
HiddenJewel
Participant
We don’t use dates either. We use Day 1 to Day 180 instead.
June 16, 2012 at 11:36 pm
LDIMom
Participant
I see a typo: “I do use a weekly plan where I put “Week of ___________________________.”
And I wanted to add if we miss a day, we just X over that day on that week’s plan. No big deal. For the lessons that are done daily (math, history, language), we just pick up the next day where they left off.
For lessons done bi-weekly (science, taekwondo class, etc.), we just miss for that day. If it is a subject like science, they try to make it up later that week. But if they don’t, again pick up where they left off the next day that subject comes up.
Hope this is as clear as mud.
@MamaSnow, I got your message and will PM you a pdf. I make my schedules in a program called QuarkXpress, but you could implement something similar with another program. I just find it easier and I have it, so that is what I used.
Like Missceegee, I also am just cutting and pasting this year as I made these last year and they worked well so we are continuing again this year.
June 17, 2012 at 12:36 am
Evergreen
Member
I’d love to see that schedule too, if you’d like to share further! Scheduling flumoxes me but I am inspired by you all!
Blessings,
Aimee
June 17, 2012 at 12:44 am
missceegee
Participant
@Suzisue – 3 on/1off works well for us, but I’m in FL where we wear shorts in winter. Summers are blazing hot, so if we’re inside, we may as well do school. We also participate in a co-op which meets 3 weeks per month.
Here is our plan for next year if it helps.
2012-2013 School Year Calendar
I start w/ a begin date and any big trips we’ve planned, then holiday time off and then work the rest from there. Our goal is 180 days which in a year is very doable.
If I lived somewhere with different weather, I’d probably adjust somewhat, but for us, this is perfect.
Christie
June 17, 2012 at 1:07 am
LDIMom
Participant
@missceegee,
sorry for veering slightly OT, but how does one go about using this box site you are linking us to?