It’s wonderful, marvelous, life-simplifier! Oh did I mention I really like it?
Anyway, seriously you want to give yourself some unintterupted time to complete. Time wise it depends on how many subjects you’re putting in, and how many of your resources you have to input and how many are already in the organizer system. Putting a resource in the system was what took up my time.
I wish I had laid out the actual week w/the books and such on paper before I started. So create you week on paper, first. That lessons the amt. of decision making at input time.
You might want to put all your books, curricula and texts w/you at the computer so you can see the divisions you want to make for scheduling.That also helps if you must put your resource into the system. The publisher, copyright, etc. information ill be right there.
Your brain will probably get a little fried doing this, so I would recommend breaking the inputting across a few days.
After you’re finishedand you have a day laidout before you for each child, your going to be happy you took the time to input.
Also, my two (6 and 7 )now look at their sheet for the day and go get their supplies.
I would also suggest you train your children to do their own marking of “worked on” (W) and “finished” (F). That is another independant step for them to make to lesson the load off of you. Let’s face it, we’re supposed to be teaching our way out of a job by them becoming self-directed learners and loving it!
Hope this helps,
Rachel