How I Plan Our Homeschool Week
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Ever wonder how all of my planning and organizational guides come together? Here's a look at how I do my Sunday afternoon planning! I usually spend about an hour (with typical kiddo interruptions) getting everything set up for our school week. Please let me know if you have questions or want more specific details on any part of this!
Check out my website at www.homeschool101.wordpress.com for more resources.
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As always, I love every video and come back all the time to rewatch!! Hope all is well❤
Thank you so much!! We're all good here... just busy! Would love to find the time to do some videos again! :)
Hello! I am a huge planner and have been homeschooling for about 7 years now. I love seeing your family's homeschool journey. Your videos have really helped me to streamline my processes and realize that I can plan to my heart's content and still keep things simple! Thank you so much. I hope you guys are doing well and that the house build is going smoothly. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Thanks for the sweet note! I'm hoping to get back to CZcams soon, but the house is pretty all consuming! :) Happy New Year!
I cannot tell you how thankful I am for your planning videos and documents!
I'm so glad they have been helpful for you!
Thank you so much for these amazing resources and the videos explaining them. I have our entire year mapped out and I was so overwhelmed before I found your page. Thank you!
Hi Lani! Thanks so much for watching, I'm SO glad it was helpful for you!
I am super glad to have found you. I am a 20 plus year veteran home school teacher. My husband and I will be homeschooling in a few years with our soon to be quints. I am checking other new ideas from others and love what I saw. Our two older children 1 our daughter who is a mother now and working, and our son is fixing to head off to BYU-I first year.
Ah...another former teacher! There's so many of us out there now homeschooling. :) Love the video!
You have helped me so much with this being my first year homeschooling. I appreciate you creating these videos for us. My daughter is in Middle School and we are using BJU Press Distant Learning. Thanks again!!!
+Donna Snyder You are so welcome! I'm glad they have been helpful for you!
Love the washi idea!!!!! We started school today and my son was soooooooo motivated with the planner! THANK YOU! He chose to do extra work to make the rest of his week lighter! Yay!
Yeah! Glad you had a good first day!!!
I LOVE your weekly checklists for your kids! We are using TGATB but I don't write in the course book and my daughter would love having something that she can check off!
I just updated my checklist for the kids now that they have switched to TGTB! I should really post it! 😊
Thank you so much for all your help organizing. Your printables are amazing!!!
+Mama Karaba You are so welcome! I'm glad they are helpful for you!
thank you so much for doing this and letting us having it for free. this is amazing im so excited to start this. this is my first year homeschooling.
You are welcome! I'm so happy to help! I hope you have a wonderful year.😁
What a talented 4 yr old! Great video!
Omg!!! I love how organized you are!!!
Haha! Thanks! I wish I could tell you that it looks like this all the time! :) Spending the time to do the year at a glance ahead of time and having his Weekly Checklists all ready make it super easy, even on weeks that aren't perfect. :)
we're just wrapping up our first year of homeschool. I definitely need more structure like this.
Hi thanks. Could you do a close up of your habit and personal growth boxes? I couldn't see it! Also, could you do a break down of your chore pack? Thank you
Wow your system is so detailed! Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I enjoy planning as well!
Now you're convincing me I should do the crate system. 😜 I'm just not sure I can get it done before we start. Lol.
Do it! I've really liked it so far. I actually wish I was using it with my 4 year old, I'm just not ready to push her to finish stuff in a certain time frame yet. Did you check out my video that's more detailed on how I set it up? It really didn't take me that long! Check it out if you haven't:
czcams.com/video/jBHmQ1Qlxsw/video.html
I did watch it already ;) I took the plunge and brought all my workbooks to officemax! I also made my kids planners, I had already been working on them for a while but your sheets for your student are great!
@@MeganPhillips hello
Can you show how you make those forms using an excel spreadsheet?
Great video. Would love to see a tutorial on how you created your excel spreadsheet. This one is little different that the others you've shared. I'm a former classroom teacher as well and I create all of my own lesson plans, tables, etc. on word. I plan on the weekends the way you do and history and science always take me the longest too. The issue I'm having is, planning on a weekly basis sometimes doesn't give me enough time to purchase or gather materials/books fun games, crafts, and activities. If you come up with a solution I would love to hear about it. Thanks again and have a great school year.
I have a couple different spreadsheets I use. Have you checked out the Year at a Glance (czcams.com/video/0-JtBNCIm_Q/video.html) Video? The other one is my son's Weekly Checklist (czcams.com/video/-GdIHn6vwp8/video.html) Video. If I missed a page, let me know!
I am thinking about the materials/books issue. (Hence why I'm Amazon Priming half of my supplies!) Maybe I need to sit down an at least look at the experiments for the rest of the quarter. I could probably do 4 or 5 weeks at a time. That would give me a chance to get stuff ordered. If I come up with any genius plans, I'll let you know!
THANK YOU for sharing this so much! I wanted to use excel without reinventing the wheel.
You are welcome! I hope it gives you a starting point!
Thanks so much for sharing this video!!! It's extremely helpful for me with my K/1st grader! Can you share your thoughts on writing utensils? I'm debating on teaching my K/1st grader to start using a fountain pen (I believe German schools start training with fountain pens in 1st grade) but I'd love to know what others have tried/used and how that's worked with their children's penmanship. When you decide how to handle the completed work portfolio, I hope you share! Have a blessed day!
Hi Lindsey! I started my son with just a regular pencil right from the very beginning. Honestly, I never thought about doing anything differently. He has pretty decent penmanship for an almost 7 year old boy, if I do say so myself. Handwriting Without Tears suggests using small golf pencils in the beginning or crayons as kids are learning those early writing strokes. I've never done that. My 4 year old usually uses a regular pencil but sometimes she chooses colored pencils or skinny markers and I'm okay with that too. I will definitely share when I get a portfolio system set up!
I second Denise! I'm horrible with Xcel. I think your set up is perfect. Can you make a way where we can download it from your blog for those wonderful pages? Would be so greatful for those. Or tutorial either one.
Hi! I'm so sorry... I lost your comment somewhere! :) Have you checked out my blog? You can download the templates for the Weekly Checklist and other documents that I show. You'll just have to click the box and change whatever subjects you need.
homeschool101.wordpress.com/printables/
You can also contact me through the "Contact Us" link on my blog if you need additional help!
I am contemplating buying history revealed but can not find a review or inside sneak peek of the curriculum. If you would be so kind can you do a video on it and how it works.Thanks, also great video I love how in depth you go with your organization.
I will! I can't guarantee I'll get to it this week, but I definitely will. There is not a lot out there on it. I bought it on a whim because I got a good deal on it, and I'm familiar with Answers in Genesis so I knew I'd be happy with the content.
+Megan Phillips Great,thank you. I can relate with having a biblical worldview so I have been binge watching your videos. Thank you for sharing.
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Love this!! Is there a trick to printing back and front of the student planner page?
I keep seeing these hardworking mommies doing the weekly file folder system. Wondering if anyone has just paper clipped or stapled each week and just put them in a box or something. I don’t have the space for that :(
Sure can! Make the system work for you! But to be honest, we don't use the crate system anymore. It worked for my oldest, but then I had more kids with different challenges and realized that's not how we homeschool, so that crate is gone. :)
Were you a school teacher before homeschooling? And what made you want to switch? :)
I was! :) I taught Family & Consumer Sciences for 9 years before staying home with my littles. Homeschooling wasn't initially in our plans, but once we actually had kids and saw the way public education was going, it just made the most sense for us. I'm super lucky that I have the ability to stay home, and CZcams gives me a bit of a "teaching" outlet! :)
Megan Phillips awesome! I’ve always been curious about the whole homeschooling aspect of education. I’m a first grade general ed teacher right now, but we’ll see what plans God has for my future. Great work with your family! :)
How do you print the Excel Year at a Glance without the columns being so dark in color? I tried draft but it's still dark. Not a little dark at the top and light throughout like yours. LOVE THIS and did my 3 boys in the past 3 days. Former teacher and LOVE this better than a detailed plan book.
Hmmm... I'm not sure why it would be dark. I print mine in color. Are you using my download or did you create your own? I'll see if I can trouble shoot with you!
Hi Megan, you are dong a great job and thank you so much for sharing all this great work with us, specially new homeschool mamas... i really love your spread sheets... i have tried to find your History week by week spread sheet, is that one that you are able to share with me please, that i could possibly use for a different subject ? thanks again for any help. Caro Ottinger
I emailed the spreadsheet to you! :)
do you do the weekly checklist for toddler also? My toddler is 3 1/2
I don't. I didn't start checklists until Kindergarten. I usually have a general toddler "plan" but it's super flexible. :)
This is genius thankyou
Love your weekly checklist! Do you still have the printable link available for download?
Amanda Wallace Yep!
homeschool101.wordpress.com/printables/
Hello Megan, Love the check list! Is it possible to update your checklist document where I can gray/block out certain subjects? Thanks. Best wished on your pregnancy. :)
Hi Lorraine! I just updated my blog with a downloadable Excel file of the Weekly Checklist. This should give you the ability to update, change and save to your hearts content!
homeschool101.wordpress.com/printables/
Thank you!!
Hi i wanted to ask, if someone is going to start homeschool do you recommend i download the yearly planner with the weekly planner? Is it important to have both or can i just plan with just the weekly planner?
Do i have to have a time of the subject worksheet , to tell me what time i will be teaching my son his subject?
I like your weekly planner, i was wondering if i can just have that and not anything else. What would you recommend. Hope to hear from you soon
Hi Lubna! You can do whatever you want! :) I really like the idea of having the whole year generally mapped out just so I have an idea of how things should go. Then it's super quick to transfer over to my weekly checklist and give more specific details for my son to follow.
One example that might help is our spelling curriculum (we use All About Spelling) which has 24 steps. If I just started in on Week 1, Step 1, we'd be done with spelling way before the end of the year. And that might be OK with you, and that's OK! :) But since I planned out my year ahead of time, I built in a break every 4th week. This gave us a chance to catch up if we got behind (which we didn't) or gave him an "easier" week (which he loved.)
Does that make sense? I hope I'm answering your question. If you think planning weekly is enough for you, go for it. That's the great thing about homeschooling... you have the flexibility. I don't put times on anything... our day is very flexible and it would drive me crazy to say "we're doing spelling from 9:00-9:20" because our days never go like that. We follow a general rhythm for our day and that works for us. Once I have more school age kiddos, I might have to be more structured, but for now, I don't.
Please let me know if you have any more questions, I'd be happy to help! Thanks so much for watching!
Yes thanks so much your reply has given me great help
Also one more thing, im starting homeschool for my 8 yr old in sept im taking him out of school, because he is easily influenced, and he is hardly learning and i feel he is missing out and time is being wasted. I do believe i will face lots of challenges. I was scared until i saw all your videos and other people videos , which has motivated me. And i am really excited.
Can you just let me know what things i need to look out for so i dont feel pressurised with the homeschool system please . If u dont mind
Thanks
Do you have a copy of the check list available on your website? I would like to purchase it.
Abby Hollenbaugh I don't know if you'll see this or Facebook first, but the Weekly Checklists is available on my blog...
homeschool101.wordpress.com/printables/
where did you get your caddy
I don't quite understand why you use tape to block out subjects you're not doing for a particular day. Why not just cross out the box?
Sometimes I do. I just think the tape is cuter. It's also more definitive that there is nothing on that day.
Megan Phillips oh, ok thanks for explaining
Where did you get Andrews planner book?
Hi Kristy! I made Andrew's planner using my Weekly Checklist. I printed 1 page for each week of our school year, created a cover and took it to Staples. They spiral bound it (including the clear cover and cardstock back) for less than $4.
The Weekly Checklist can be found on my blog if you are interested in using it!
homeschool101.wordpress.com/printables/
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How old is your son?
Queen_copeland 21 c I'd like to try and give you some guidance, but I have 2 thoughts... 1. Can you elaborate on your disability and how it might impact homeschooling for you? 2. You're really about 5 years early for planning. 😊 Anything you look at is going to be obsolete in 5 years when your son starts kindergarten. My best advice to new mom's is to take it easy. Little kids don't need tons of curriculum or fancy things, they need to play and explore and experience life. The curriculum will come, I promise. 😊
I'm sitting here crying. I feel like I'm failing miserably as a homeschool mom. Feel like I am just not equipped. :.(
sabrina hamrick Awww... don't cry! What part is stressing you out? Remember, every homeschool mama has strengths and weaknesses, just the fact that your are homeschooling your kids is more than most people would even consider. Let me know how I can help!
Hey Sabrina! Hope you’re still homeschooling! I hope you found Meagan’s vlog to be of the utmost HELP! I know I did. I was feeling like you did. This channel changed the game for me. 👏- along with prayer.