Schedule Question

Amanda, a lot of your decision of how many days per week is based on what you have to cover. The easiest way to figure this out is to make a pile for each subject and total up the number of lessons or chapters you want to cover in that subject. Then divide that total number by the number of weeks you have to cover it. Your answer will tell you how many days per week to do that subject (assuming you are doing a lesson or chapter per day). 

For example, if you have 4 history books that you want to cover during this term and they have 10, 8, 2, and 4 chapters = 24 chapters total. You have 12 weeks in the term. So 24 chapters divided by 12 weeks = 2 chapters per week. So, you will need to read history 2 days per week. Does that make sense?

For curriculum-type books, check the author’s notes or the introduction in the book to see if a guideline is given there. For example, the older Apologia books (for 7-12 grades) recommend working on a module every day for two weeks. So you would schedule Science every day if you were using that resource. 

Scheduling is such a personal thing, depending on what resources we’re using, what season of life we’re in, how our families work best, etc. That’s why it’s difficult to simply say, “You must do History X number of days a week.” That’s also why the weekly schedules posted on our site are simply examples. It’s best for you to figure out what will work well for your situation. We break this process down even more in our Planning book, and you can find an overview of that process in this Planning blog series.

Hope this helps!

You go, girl!