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School Planning

Just in case anyone is interested, I have my school plan for 2008 worked out. You can see it HERE. It is basically an outline of what books we will be reading & using.

What I haven’t written about or planned, is the everyday learning and extra-curricular stuff. I’ll add a bit on that another day. Most of the everyday learning, however, can’t be planned - it just happens! LOL!

I have gone more structured this year, with a lot of things the children can do themselves. These are the basics. On top of this is the things we do together - music, languages, sports and in depth History and Geography. Field Trips will be in there somewhere, and all these things will be linked to English, somehow…. oh yes, by writing about them! :)

The reason I am aiming for more structure this year, is because last year was so unstructured. I will see how we go. I am hoping that structure in the mornings, will help us to learn unstructured in the afternoons - if that makes any sense at all! I know what I’m trying to say….. lol! I also plan to do outside activities and projects on Fridays. With our main “book work” done in the first four days, this will allow a bit of Friday fun. We will still do Maths on Fridays though.

I’ve printed out a mountain of ebooks, or should I say a leaning tower… Now I need to bind them all! When I am done, I will post photos.

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One Response to “School Planning”

  1. Belinda Letchford Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 6:39 am

    Hi Joy
    Interesting to read about your plans for 2008. We too are in the process of realising we need a little more structure - well, that probably isn’t the case - we know the structure we just have to prioritise our choices so we stick to the structure! LOL.

    My challenge has been that my oldest son needs more study time and yet the other kids still need the freedom of being a child. His lifestyle is academics, but the others not so much at the moment. Tricky to find the balance for them all.

    I was also challenged with your budgeting blog - no way we can get to $100 with prices up here but still I need to see what I can do!

    Have a great week - have you started yet with this plan or still on holidays?

    Belinda