Planning more than one year at a time?

I am working on doing this right now – albeit slowly…  🙂  My oldest is 9 going into 4th grade, and I already have most of those earlier grades done because of my kids being in them now.  But I am trying to branch out further and further ahead so I know what books to grab when I see them at yard sales.  😉  LOL  Seriously, though, already it has been very helpful, and I’ve barely begun.  I can see more of where we’re headed and how exactly it will play out.  Of course, I’m not doing a day-by-day structure at all, just knowing which books will be planned for which years – not just which modules but more detail than that.  If that makes sense?

I’m in the process of doing this now.  I find the idea freeing since we tend to piece our curriculum together from different sources. It won’t be written in stone, but is helpful for me to know, for example, that we’re planning on doing Language Lessons from Lord of the Rings in 9th, so that’s when I can plan those books for lit., etc. And just to see on paper that we’ve got our bases covered. Good luck planning:) Gina

I have a 12 year overview but have not filled in all my dots.  I am finding that the longer I hs, our path is becoming more clear to me all the time.  I have a general idea of what we want to do and where we are going and I add the concrete details closer to that year.

I keep a master sheet for each subject and jot down resources mentioned here or on other guides and rank them loosely under what grades they are intended for.  This helps both with random notes, thoughts, and having it all ready to review as I finalize the year’s plans.

Having the over allows me to add books all the time since I have planned to follow the Modules history years and gather all the living, classical books I can put my hands on when I can get them cheap.

I’m so glad to see this discussion. I started on this at the beginning of last year and have a plan through 8th grade and am finding it so helpful. I have decided to hold off on planning high school for now. I’m thinking in the middle school years we’ll start to see what directions ds will be leaning towards and can begin to plan accordingly. I am already finding it very helpful as I look ahead to the next year to have it all down. Of course it isn’t written in stone and I have changed what science and history we were planning to use. But getting an idea of what direction and what priorities are is very helpful and freeing as we pray over and make decisions.