Homeschool Scheduling

 

Scheduling Resources

Yearly Planning

First, plan your year. What days can you educate? Decide whether you are going to educate 3, 4 or 5 days a week. Print two of these out. (Right click and save the photo). Chart out the year of educating. Plan to educate from 150-180 days out of the year.

These are some samples - just some ideas. To give you an idea as to how much work you could get done.

5 days a week - 34 weeks 
Off 1 wk in Nov, Off 2 wks in Dec
Off June and July for Summer
August Days 1-20 (20 days in August)
September Days 21-40 (20 days in September)
October Days 41-60 (20 days in October)
November Days 61-75 (15 days in November)
December Days 76-86 (10 days in December)
January Days 87-107 (20 days in January)
February Days 108-128 (20 days in February)
March Days 129-149 (20 days in March)
April Days 150-170 (20 days in April)
May Days 171-180 (10 days in May)
4 days a week - 42 weeks
Off 1 wk in Nov, Off 2 wks in Dec
Off July for Summer
August Days 1-16 (16 days in August)
September Days 17-32 (16 days in September)
October Days 33-48 (16 days in October)
November Days 49-60 (12 days in November)
December Days 61-68 (8 days in December)
January Days 69-84 (16 days in January)
February Days 85-100 (16 days in February)
March Days 101-116 (16 days in March)
April Days 117-132 (16 days in April)
May Days 133-148 (16 days in May)
June Days 149-164 (16 days in June)
3 days a week (Works for shorter curriculum) 43 weeks
Off 1 wk in Nov, Off 2 wks in Dec
Off July 1-15th for summer
This schedule depends mostly on weekly work
May need to double up on daily work some days (Usually means longer days)
Could also mean that you rush through easy days of curriculum
July 15th-30th Days 1-6 (6 days in July)
August Days 7-18 (12 days in August)
September Days 19-30 (12 days in September)
October Days 31-42 (12 days in October)
November Days 43-51 (9 days in November)
December Days 52-57 (6 days in December)
January Days 58-69 (12 days in January)
February Days 70-81 (12 days in February)
March Days 82-93 (12 days in March)
April Days 94-105 (12 days in April)
May Days 106-117 (12 days in May)
June Days 118-129 (12 days in June)
3 days a week (2nd option where you rush through easy or review days) 43 weeks
Off 1 wk in Nov, Off 2 wks in Dec
Off July 1-15th for summer
This schedule depends mostly on weekly work
May need to double up on daily work some days (Usually means longer days)
Could also mean that you rush through review Days 1-30 and 130-180 of curriculum
July 15th-30th Days 1-10 (6 days in July - Rush through review days)
August Days 11-30 (12 days in August - Rush through review days)
September Days 31-42 (12 days in September)
October Days 43-54 (12 days in October)
November Days 55-63 (9 days in November)
December Days 64-69 (6 days in December)
January Days 70-81 (12 days in January)
February Days 82-93 (12 days in February)
March Days 94-105 (12 days in March)
April Days 106-117 (12 days in April)
May Days 118-138 (12 days in May - Rush through review days)
June Days 139-158 (12 days in June - Rush through review days)
4 days a week - 40 weeks
Off Nov and Dec
Schooling through summer
January Days 1-16 (16 days in January)
February Days 17-32 (16 days in February)
March Days 33-48 (16 days in March)
April Days 49-64 (16 days in April)
May Days 65-80 (16 days in May)
June Days 81-96 (16 days in June)
July Days 97-112 (16 days in July)
August Days 113-128 (16 days in August)
September Days 129-144 (16 days in September)
October Days 145-160 (16 days in October)
4 days a week - 42 weeks
Off Thanksgiving to New Years
Schooling through summer
January Days 1-16 (16 days in January)
February Days 17-32 (16 days in February)
March Days 33-48 (16 days in March)
April Days 49-64 (16 days in April)
May Days 65-80 (16 days in May)
June Days 81-96 (16 days in June)
July Days 97-112 (16 days in July)
August Days 113-128 (16 days in August)
September Days 129-144 (16 days in September)
October Days 145-160 (16 days in October)
November Days 161-168 (8 days in November)
4 days a week - 40 weeks
Off Nov and Dec
Schooling through summer
August Days 1-16 (16 days in August)
September Days 17-32 (16 days in September)
October Days 33-48 (16 days in October)
January Days 49-64 (16 days in January)
February Days 65-80 (16 days in February)
March Days 81-96 (16 days in March)
April Days 97-112 (16 days in April)
May Days 113-128 (16 days in May)
June Days 129-144 (16 days in June)
July Days 145-160 (16 days in July)
4 days a week - 42 weeks
Off Thanksgiving to New Years
Schooling through summer
August Days 1-16 (16 days in August)
September Days 17-32 (16 days in September)
October Days 33-48 (16 days in October)
November Days 49-56 (8 days in November)
January Days 57-72 (16 days in January)
February Days 73-88 (16 days in February)
March Days 89-104 (16 days in March)
April Days 105-120 (16 days in April)
May Days 121-136 (16 days in May)
June Days 137-152 (16 days in June)
July Days 153-168 (16 days in July)
4 days a week - 42 weeks
Off Thanksgiving to New Years
Off July for summer
August Days 1-16 (16 days in August)
September Days 17-32 (16 days in September)
October Days 33-48 (16 days in October)
November Days 49-56 (8 days in November)
January Days 57-72 (16 days in January)
February Days 73-88 (16 days in February)
March Days 89-104 (16 days in March)
April Days 105-120 (16 days in April)
May Days 121-136 (16 days in May)
June Days 137-152 (16 days in June)

Is that Weekly work or Daily work? 

Now that you know your yearly plan, let's talk about your weekly and daily plan. You need to figure out what you will offer. This homeschool resources list can help you to decide what is out there for you to offer and what curricula exists for those subjects. There is a link back to this page at the bottom.

You need to split the subjects into weekly work and daily work. Character First Education has 29 character traits. These are best split into weekly work. There are usually 30-46 weeks in a school year, depending as to how many days a week you end up educating. You will need to split subjects into daily and into weekly work. What works best to be done everyday? What works best to be 1 or 2 days a week? Do you have multiple things you'd like to offer that seem similar?

The suggestions in this section are only to give you ideas. There are as many ways to do this as their are homeschool families. Here is an example: You could offer a Character/Behavior/Good Citizenship class. Monday you could do Character First, Tuesday a reading from The Book of Virtues, Wednesday Emily Post manners book, Thursday a video from Everyday Speech and Friday offer a unit study that you find on Teacher Pay Teacher. Another Example - I offer history everyday of the week, however, we do ancient history and geography on Monday, British History on Tuesday, American History on Thursday, and Modern History on Friday. (We school 4 days a week) I also make sure to log everything into our book of centuries.
Math and read alouds are the only thing that I keep as daily work. Daily, my children can be sure that they will do math and reading. (My 5 year old does phonics daily) - other than that, the rest is weekly work. There are many other ways that you can make this work, that's just how I make it work. It seems to work best for us to loop schedule. I keep a list of materials we must get to daily, and if we don't get to it I don't let it worry me and it goes onto our weekly work list. They have to get it done this week sometime. I prefer to use a math curriculum with less lessons - Easy Peasy workbook math has only about 136 lessons. This works best for me because my son can get through a whole year of lessons, and I can use the other 24 lessons in the year to go over material he had a hard time with. (Or lessons he did not finish)

However you split this section up, make sure that you know what materials you will offer and when.

Come up with a weekly schedule

Come up with a daily schedule