Need scheduling ideas for my 3 daughters

That is what I do, Rene. I have 2 children and we use 3 workboxes every day for each child. In box one, I put things that they can do alone (without my help) like: copywork, reading, and their memory work. Then I swap out the boxes 2 & 3 everyday for one child to do math & language with me while the other does something quietly on their own. I made a list of things we have that they may choose from during their “independent time”. I let them choose from these things: sewing, knitting, playing outside, legos, drawing, painting, playing guitar (in their bedroom), computer time, microscope, library books, etc.

Then we do our family subjects after our boxes are done. It has been working really well for me.

I also have a weekly schedule posted at my desk. It is based on the samples in Planning Your CM Edu. by SCM. The weekly schedule is a life saver for me! I can just look at it the night before and fill boxes or get the books out that we need for the next day.

Hope this has helped!

Amanda

Hi Rene,

If you’d like to take a look at our daily schedule it is posted on a tab at the top of our homeschool blog.

Our schedule is shown in half-hour increments but lessons are usually shorter with a chore or play together break between every two lessons.  Much is done together but the ability to narrate requires quiet on the other children’s parts (my older son proved this to me by reading a paragraph for me to narrate back while my younger was singing).  This is where good habit training comes in and CM says it takes precedence over academics.  Sometimes it might not be the problem of the younger distracting the older but the older needing to practice diligence in finishing a lesson on his own. I find it helpful to explain to my youngest before a lesson that we will require quiet so he can choose a quiet activity from his school shelf.  It seems my youngest needs to have his hands doing something while he listens.

HTH and peace is multiplied to you!

Richele