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scheduling things that are not books
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I am trying the free trial. What about scheduling something like copywork when I don’t use a specific book. I used many different resources weekly and much of that is off the internet or just a book we are currently reading. However, I want copywork to show up on the printed checklist that I give them each day with the daily schedule. I would also like copywork to show up on the report to show that we did it daily. Does this make sense? Also, we do Rosetta Stone Spanish. I just want “Spanish” to show up on the checklist. The program automatically starts at the next place each day so the children don’t need specifics – just “spanish” and a place to check it off. How could I make this work?
I do not use a specific resource for copywork either, but scheduling it is easy! We have three terms of 60 days each. I go to the Scheduler, and click “add my own resource”. I pick the subject, which is Copywork in this case. I pick the study method, which for us is Custom (Write Various Selections). I select M, T, W, Th, F because we do Copywork daily and then select the student. Copywork is a subject I schedule for individual children, not a Family subject. Then, in the divisions, I simply have 60 divisions, one for each day of that term.
I choose Copywork from several different sources: hymns, Bible verses, and poems. After the various selection has been completed for the day, I simply type whatever the child wrote in the Notes for that day and click on “Finished”.
For your Spanish, enter in your resource: Rosetta Stone Spanish. Don’t put in any divisions. Everyday that the children work on their Spanish, you click “Worked On”. If you schedule Spanish on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, it will show up in your schedule each of those days, and you can click “Worked On” each of those days. It will stop showing up on the scheduled days when you click “Worked On” and then “Finished”. If you worked on Spanish three days per week for 6 weeks and then ran a report, the report would show Spanish as being worked on three days per week for 6 weeks. You get the idea.
I hope that makes sense and is helpful!
Another possibility is one that someone on here suggested for things like music practice…. and I think would work well with both of the ones you wondered about. (I just started using it for music practice, and it works nicely.)
Make 12 divisions, and put in the month names for each division. (start with the month your school starts in.) Each time they work on it, put “Worked on”. the final practice / lesson of the month, click on Finished. The main benefit is that you get fewer dates to look at if you need to expand the assignment in the daily plan to edit past days worked on. Your summary report would show the months that you worked on it and the detailed report gives you more info on when you worked on it.
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