I love to plan things, make schedules and lists for home schooling. I heartily dislike have to cross out my home school plans and scribble all over my home school teacher book. However, anytime I make detailed lesson plans in advance my life intervenes, and not in a kindly manner.
Years ago I figured out that I could have my cake and eat it too.
I write out goals for each child at the beginning of each year, then break it down to each semester. I get pretty specific and set goals for academics and relationship, character etc.
However, I do not write my exact plans for each day in a "teacher book" or calendar until after the day or week is over. See the cheat? No scribbling-out because what I write is what my child has already accomplished. At the end of the school year I have a neat record of each child's school work.
Simplifies my life.
I can sympathize about not wanting to cross out the plans! Our schedules tend to get rearranged, too, and my planning system is similar to yours.
ReplyDeleteI plan for the year, then break it down by weeks, in a notebook. My daily plans, though, I write only about two weeks at a time, and I do those on a loose sheet of paper. At the end of each day, I write what we've actually accomplished in the notebook.
I've done that in the past also!! Now we just use a checklist to get through the week. :)
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