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May 18, 2011 at 9:18 pm
suzukimom
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As I’ve mentioned a couple of times, my husband’s work schedule is changing, and may be constantly changing. I love the organizer, and want to use it… but with my husband’s schedule changing a lot, so will our homeschool schedule. (trying to school with him around just doesn’t work too well.)
I am seeing 3 possibilities on how to do this… wanting to try and figure it out as I type (sometimes explaining to others helps me explain it to myself), get opinions, or possible other ideas.
One month my husband will work T-F. The next month he will work F-M (so he either has Sat, Sun, Mon off, or he has Tues, Wed, Thurs off.)
1st idea
Use the organizer as usual, and change which days the resources are assigned every month when our life schedule changes… or maybe try to figure out a way to schedule everything so that I don’t need to change it. So for example schedule something for Tuseday or Saturday… Wednesday or Monday…. it might take some figureing out to figure out. Easy for a month – but a lot of changing each month and possibility of missing resources etc.
2nd idea
In the organizer, schedule everything everyday (except things like violin lessons that just simply won’t change.) Outside the organizer, plan what to do each day of a 4 day rotation system. (Day 1, Day 2, etc… this is how it is done in the schools here…) Then before I print the daily plan, I look at the schedule for the day and “close” resources we won’t use that day. The kids will see their standard daily plan… but I’d have to do this every night for the next day.
3rd idea
Go with a weekly plan instead of a daily plan… (so again, schedule everything in the organizer everyday for easy check-off). So for Monday, print off the Daily Plan (which shows everything), and use “Show Upcoming Assignments” for anything done in the week more than once. For things only done 2 or 3 times, mark on the paper the “extra” upcoming assignments as optional (or cross out)… and work out how many things need to be done each day to get things done for the week. This is a bit of extra work for me each week…
I’m leaning towards the 3rd idea… possibly having some system to make sure a good variety is being done… Possibly a card box or something for the day… a card that says Math, a card that says German, a card that says Pick a Reading, a card that says Pick Science or Geography…. etc… so they can do some choosing… and mark things off on the week plan as they get done…

May 18, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Gem
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Hmm – I basically use your second idea – but I never print off my plan. I can’t stick to a certain day per week for anything, our schedule varies too much, and if if a resource only popped up on Tuesday, for instance, and I didn’t do it, I would forget about it when I had time on Wed, or whenever.
So I look at the daily plan in the morning, and things I know we won’t do, I minimize. Then as we check things off, I usually minimize them. I leave the organizer open in a browser tab, and as the day goes on I check to see what we have left.
Sounds haphazard when I write it down, but it works for us!
May 21, 2011 at 7:53 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Well, we have 1 week left of our yearly school, will take a couple of weeks off (dh has vacation time), and then we will go into the summer schedule. I thought I’d try the new system out for this last week…. and I’m trying my 3rd idea.
So, I’ve made almost all my resources 7 days a week, and I’ve printed off our weekly to-do list for next week (ie, the daily plan with things showing upcoming assignments…). It took a few minutes on the screen to pick which resources I wanted to show upcoming assignments (but it wasn’t a big deal… as we had been using a modified AO, I used to have to go in and “close” the items that we weren’t going to do that week…. but I had to do that everynight for the next day’s work….)
I printed off the weekly list, and was pleased to see that my son’s only took 3 pages (instead of at least 5 pages used with our daily list…) and my daughters only took 2 pages (again instead of at least 5 pages before…)
A couple of resources that are used 2 times in the week, I just hand marked on the paper to do 2. Items I’d like done daily, I highlighted. I then counted the ones that would only be done on 1 or 2 days… and discovered that each of my kids need to aim at doing 1 of those a day to be done the weekly list. Great! (we have already finished a bunch of things…. a couple of subjects have different resources each day… so I just marked the subject as daily…)
So – now I just have to figure out how they can mark the paper so I know what was done when… (although I generall know what was done…) It would be nice if the upcoming assignements had a little W and F box too… I was thinking maybe they could mark W or F with a different coloured pencil crayon (a colour for each day?) – or maybe use little coloured sticker – dots… put the coloured dot for the day on either W or F (or where the W and F would be for the “upcoming assignments”…._
Anyway – just wanted to share that I think that this will work great as a Weekly List (would still like the Upcoming Assignments to show 4 instead of 3 assignments so that I get a weeks worth…. but as we mostly school 4 days a week, it will work for everything except math… which is “do the next lesson” anyway…)

Just thought I’d say that it looks like it will work well, and will let me have the flexibility we will need with dh’s work schedule changes! I’m thrilled that with some thought I could work out a way to let the Organizer work well still.