I don’t know about you, but I am severely schedule-challenged. I could not keep a schedule if my life depended on it.
For many homeschoolers, this would not be a problem. (Think, unschooling.)
But since I live in a state that requires end-of-the-year reporting, based on a beginning-of-the year curriculum, I need to get certain things done.
Finding a balance between relaxed and scheduled has been a challenge for me, to say the least.
I once read a suggestion on a message board that I want to try.
A homeschooling dad said that he designs subject units and the kids have to have a certain number of units complete in each subject each week.
His kids are older, so he lets them be responsible for completing their required work. They have the flexibility to do it when they want to.
For example, one chapter of math counts as one unit and the child must complete three units of math per week.
This I can do.
At least, I think I can.
I’ll let you know next week how it’s working out.
Let me know how that works for you…I write out everything I plan for my daughter to do in her planner at the end of the week and she does it the following week. The day’s work has to be done before she gets to do certain things, but other than that it is mostly up to her when to get it done. It works pretty well.