The Misfit homeschooler: Living in a secular world

The kids got their own planners this year to help them keep on track. It works fairly well to just plop down in front of them and we work on the schedule together. The front of the planner has some info for the kids (Here's a small sample) Then the main planner pages look like this. It gives them space under the date to write down what is happening on each day class/club/lesson wise. i.e. Mondays = music lessons, Tuesdays =Science group,etc. Then on the next page under "parent/teacher notes" they write in which books they are working on, what pages they want to cover, any websites or online classes that they are signed up for etc. and then the list of spelling words can be either spelling words or reading words that they are working on and then keep track of how much they are reading each week. It's been working out well so far. and helps them to remember what they wanted to do and when. For me I have a 2 part system. I use my Franklin Covey planner...

As you have probably noticed I took a short (or long) break from blogging while I was crazy busy! We had visitors for a couple of weeks, needed to finish up projects around the property and get the school room almost finished! Had a couple of trips, started up school..yeah, life happens. so I'll start with the room..yes, the school room. once the new windows were in and the carpet put into place we had a mostly carpeted room just waiting to finish the other section so we didn't have concrete and carpet for the room.As a reminder here's the room before (although at this point it the walls had already been painted. Here's the room with the concrete and carpet look... Then my husband finally got to get working on the concrete part and got it put together (mostly in a day). Then it was time to head into the attic to get reinforcements done for the hanging chairs... So I'll reveal a little bit of the room (because I don't have all the pictures d...