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Home Education
Creating Simple Matrices and Blank Templates (A Planning Post)

It’s possible that this title sounds really complicated, so just hang in there with me. I’ll try to make it as simple as possible. Creating blank templates is a step that has saved me hours and hours of planning time over the years. When I started using Nicole’s matrix idea, moving from the big, detailed matrix to a simple matrix to a blank template was the process I came up with that worked for me, and that’s what I’m sharing Continue Reading…
July 6, 2015
Home Education
Big Picture Summer Planning

I don’t let myself plan for summer until a few things have happened. We have to have logged 165 days of school, I have to have finished all of my pre-reading for the rest of the year, and I have to have made my lists of what is left for us to finish in order to call it done for the school year. If I plan too early, it becomes a temptation to drop the balls I’m juggling — to finish poorly Continue Reading…
May 27, 2015
Home Education
The Art of a Freeing Schedule

Nobody calls the poet a slave to his meter. And nobody says it’s “constricting” when the composer insists that the lyricist fit his words to the music. We know that, in these circumstances, form is necessary. It’s almost like adding an extra pinch of salt or sugar — all that form brings out the flavor. Yet, it is common in our culture to associate freedom with formlessness, to think that liberty requires an absence of all structure. The question is: Continue Reading…
August 12, 2014
Home Education
School Prep 2014: Planning for the Average Day

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] recently realized that our school start date is creeping up on me, so I’ve tried to resign myself to another painfully short summer’s end and commence with planning. I don’t want to procrastinate and then freak out due to lack of preparation. Today was a big triumph because I think I finalized my Average Day Chart. I say “think” because I always have this feeling that I’ve forgotten something. Because I finally have all four children doing regular lessons — Continue Reading…
July 31, 2014