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Radical check off sheet?
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Will you permit me to bounce an idea off of you? Will you be honest and tell me if you think I’m nuts or if you think this idea might just work? I am unable to afford the CMO at this time. However, scheduling and planning for 3 students EACH week in a weekly grid format where I have to look at where they’re at and assign the next assignment is too time consuming for me.
So my idea is this:
For each book (or activity) that is assigned, make up a sheet with title and what days it is to be worked on. Then list the breakdown of assignements such as chapters, 1 poem, 4 pages, etc… and list them down the page. I would do this for each book for each student. Then as they finished the assignment they would cross it out. If they didn’t work on it that day then it would still be waiting there for them the next day it was scheduled to be worked on. I’m thinking that I would place these sheets on a clip board for each student. Each day they would flip through and do the assignments for that day. They would be independent and I would only have to make up one sheet for each book rather than watching and keping up with where each student is in each book every week. I could even work ahead and note at the top if they should begin this book after another certain book, whether they should narrate this book or even this assignement (say if I wanted to go every other), or other individual notes. I could even go in and pencil in an addition if I needed to without redoing anything. It would basically be the CMO only in paper form. It seems to me it would ebb with life better than 3 individual planners.
Does this make sense? If not, I’ll try to explain better – And if so, do you think it would work? Thanks for letting me “pick” your brains.
~Brenda
I did this only for myself…I just used index cards as a book marker for each book or resource and on the index card listed out each assignment and then I had one spreadsheet that told me which resource/book on what day. It worked, but I sure love the CMO for all the reports etc. I think your idea should work in theory if your children can work indepentently. HTH
Someone on here did something fairly similar – using the TOC of each book, then they would write the complete date beside it when done…
I have a spreadsheet I’d love to show you to see if it may be of any help. It is how I do planning now. I don’t plan individual days but blocks of weeks instead. I think you could use it either way, though. The great beauty is I find it takes less time than any other method I’ve tried. If you are interested in me emailing or PMing it to you, let me know. It’s birth was based on someone else’s spreadsheet here, then totally changed to fit my needs. 🙂 I think that’s how it often works – get lots of ideas and then pull what works from each, add in your own touch of magic and voila! you have something that works for your family.
Sure Shannon you can PM it to me! I’ll look at any and all ideas, thanks. I have tried planning 3 students weekly and with our homesteading lifestyle it was just too much. Even with many subjects together as a family!
Any suggestion on how to copy an Excel spreadsheet and have it show up looking correct? Or…how do others share spreadsheets?
I’d love to see the spreadsheets, too!!! I love trying to find the “perfect” visual for our daily rhythm and our daily/weekly work.
I’ve posted my current spreadsheet here ……..Well. I’d like to post it here. But can’t. How do you all put a link in your posts?? My link button (up there at the top of the text box, with the B, and I, and smiley, etc.) is gray and won’t work.
To post a link, go to the site address and right click and select copy. Go to your post here and right click and select paste.
I can’t do that! I’ve tried, but it doesn’t work.
I’m not sure why, but it won’t. Maybe I should use another browser, like chrome.
Okay. trying in Chrome.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?page=view&resid=53B2D7FD0E811D75!151&authkey=!AJaIAQAyPHm6Oy4
Woo-hoo!! It was explorer’s fault!
Okay. Now, I see that my link isn’t clickable. I don’t know how to do that, either. My link buttons are still grayed.
Well, if you take the time to cut and paste it into your browser, maybe it’ll spark an idea, anyway. It’s not what the OP is looking for, but I LOVE seeing how other people organize their daily/weekly plans.
For what it’s worth I think these check off sheets sound great! I’ve discovered that making my own weekly grid is hard because I’m always having to change it. I discovered subject planners on Donna Young’s site and that’s what your idea sounds like! I’ve even considered using subject planners to know what to do next and then filling in a weekly planner as we do the work – just so we have a record of what we did.
I’m happy to email our spreadsheet to anyone who wants to PM me their email address! (I’d rather do it that way than DropBox. I’d just prefer not signing up for one more thing.)
I can’t paste links here either, Karen. (I use Explorer so I guess that’s why.) I did get to see your spreadsheet with the above link, though. Mine is somewhat similar, less detailed still. Thanks for sharing it!
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