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When we started homeschooling our three kids, we had three curricula, three paces, and one kitchen table. Every Sunday night we turned a stack of teacher’s guides into a plan for the week. By Wednesday, something had always gone sideways.
Here’s what we learned about planning a week when every child is on their own path.
1. Plan the week, not the year
A year-long plan is out of date by October. A week is short enough to stay accurate and long enough to see where everyone is headed.
2. Know what each lesson needs before the day starts
The hardest part of teaching several curricula isn’t the teaching. It’s flipping through a teacher’s guide to find what today covers, what to review, and which pages to grab, times every child and every subject.
3. Put every child’s day on one page
Seeing everyone together shows you when one child can work alone while you sit with another.
4. Expect the week to move
A missed Tuesday shouldn’t mean rewriting the rest of the week by hand. Lessons should simply move forward.
5. Let the records keep themselves
Attendance and grades are painful to rebuild in June, especially for a high schooler who needs a transcript. Keep them as you teach.
6. Let kids see their own day
Children who can check off their own list need far fewer reminders, whether on a screen or a printed sheet.
How we do it
We built OneHomeschool because we needed all of this in one place. It gives you daily lesson guides for popular curricula like Abeka, BJU Press, The Good and the Beautiful and Saxon Math, and a photo of a table of contents brings in anything else. Every child’s day is on one screen, the schedule moves when a day slips, and attendance, grades and transcripts build as you teach. Kids get their own view, or a printed sheet if they prefer paper.
It comes with a 14-day free trial, no card required, and plans start at $99 a year.