I have a word table that shows our basic outline for 5 days (for my Year 2, Kindergartener, and Preschooler it’s a two page spread, but once they are all school age, I’ll do one page per student per 5 days.) World history twice, Canadian History once, Geography living book once, map work once, copywork and math and literature daily, and so on, each have their own square. This gives me balance so that I know we are not leaving anything out or overloading anything. I print enough pages for 180 days of school.
Then, on the weekend I spend a few minutes filling in any details that are needed for materials that aren’t just ‘do the next chapter’, such as if a literature book is done and we need to switch to the next, or which songs we are practicing for our Hymn study, or which math games I want to do.
In theory, the 5 day page is one week’s worth of school, but I don’t stress if we don’t get it all done in a week. We school on and off year round. So if we want to take a spontaneous day off, we do, and then pick back up where we left off. If we want to leave a science activity until Saturday to do with Dad, it doesn’t mess anything up. In the summer, it takes us about 2 weeks to finish one ‘5 day’ page. As long as we finish the 180 days worth by the next fall, we are fine. I just date each column on the day it was finished, so I can look back and see what happened.