I Can't Find the Time to Lesson Plan! (Dear Mama B)

GET OUR BOOKS FREE FOR 14 DAYS at go.farmhousebookco.com/freefor14 Dear Mama B, My Biggest frustration with Homeschooling is that I just don’t have time to plan it all! Any tips? - Timed Out Dear Timed Out, Oh this is one of my favorites. Planning is a corporate skill that every child should learn early. Let them see you plan. Plan with them. Start by just planning one day, But -Whatever you do- do not make a schedule. You know as well as I do, with children, this is not an easy task. We have to be flexible. So instead of putting “from 9-10 am we will read” just put “read” on a piece of paper like a todo list. I like to divide my bullet journal into five sections. Teaching is priority. Next comes healing, cooking, cleaning, and learning. I write my objectives for the day in each section and I put bullets next to each to check off when I’m done. Most of the time it’s the same thing over and over again but guaranteed if I don’t write it down I’ll forget it. Most everything I do during the day fits into one of those five categories. So when I think of something it is easy to just write it down as I go. Sometimes I find myself already doing something before I write it down. In this case I will write it down and check it off. I do this because I might need to remember that again another day. And because It makes me feel good to see what I’ve been doing all day. I also have my children plan each day in the same way. They divide their journals into chores, reading, writing, math, science. We put something in each. And then they practice checking it off as well. It’s writing, spelling, handwriting and planning all at once. I love things like that.  Love, Mama B. https://farmhousebookco.com/?p=273