Scheduling Extra Books? Leisure reading, occasional books, etc.

I’m a new CM scheduler user and I was thinking about this as well. I have a list of free reads and I have a daily 30 minute time to read free reads for one child, plus I do a chapter of a different one as a family read aloud each evening. Currently, I’m setting each one up to follow another but I don’t know how to schedule things that are so random, and I’ve just been setting it for Sundays, but then I don’t see it on my daily schedule at all. (Just on Sundays.)

You’re right. And I’ve already been using the “not scheduled for today” quite a lot, since my kids are younger, so we don’t have to adhere to a strict “do it this day” policy for content subject. If we prefer to do Paddle to the Sea today instead of Aesop it isn’t a big deal to me, if you know what I mean (though I am pretty strict about doing all of one week’s readings before I start on next week, so that we don’t get too far ahead in any subject).

In terms of free reads, I think I’m going to stick with the custom subjects “readalouds” and “free reads” and just schedule them for Sundays and enter books from the list to start when she finishes one, and I’ll just go in and click worked on for each day she reads it. “Readalouds” can be the family ones. We live in PA and I have to turn in a reading list as part of our annual portfolio so I want to make sure all these books show up in my reports.

I might consider doing it this way for memory work as well. I’ve been trying to figure out how to enter that. I generally plan (for example) a term at a time, and I’ll do a few scriptures, a few things in our foreign languages (nursery rhymes, morals, short poems, etc), a few poems, and a few things of a non-fiction variety. I pick a few ahead of time, but we just get through as much as we get through and they continue the next term if I don’t get to them all. So, I may set up a custom subject like “Memory Work” and then just add private resources labeled things like  2017-2018 Spanish memory work and put my divisions like “item” and 1 can be the first poem we do and 2 the second and 3 the third or whatever. As I see we come to the end of one I can just update the resource with three or four more divisions for the next term. Then I can schedule it for Sunday or whenever and click “worked on” for each date we do it until we finish the item.

My one problem is that I need some sort of weekly overview page, so I can see what things we haven’t touched on yet in a week. Yes, I know it shows the last assignment finished and the day we finished it, but I have to go looking for these things subject by subject and book by book.