Organize starting point?

Have you looked at SCM’s Free Curriculum Guide?  Under the Plan CM tab at the top of this page you’ll find the guide, as well as sample schedules.  With a 6yo as your oldest you are not going to be doing everything, but choose the things you will do.  You’ll need math (probably done daily), science (living books or something like SCM’s 106 Days of Creation, how often will you do this each week?), and beginning reading and writing (handwriting/copywork) (what products will you use and how often?  Probably daily but keep it short – 10 minutes or less in the beginning).  Then choose things like literature to read aloud, and artist to study their works, a history time period, etc.

Once you know what you want to use the steps are pretty basic:

1. See how often you’ll do each item in a week.
2. Write out the days of the week and list which days each item will go on.  So math would be on every day but you may decide to only have science on Tues/Thurs, and you may only have picture study on Friday.
3. Once you’ve put each day’s work under it’s spot look at just one day.  What order will you do subjects that particular day? Write it down.  You’re now scheduled for that day.  Look at the next day and put that day’s subjects in order.

Things to consider – Keep lessons short at this age!  Also, vary hard and easy subjects, vary a subject with listening a lot (like a literature or history read aloud) with a subject that has your child moving (nature study) or singing (hymns study) or writing or reading.  You get the idea.  Don’t put all of one type of work (all your reading, for example) back to back.  And plan to have breaks!