Preparing to Homeschool: Planning Your Homeschool Schedule

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Bits and Pieces for Math and Science by Beverly S. Krueger
Have you ever had one of those days when you are all set to dig into an exciting project and find that you’ve forgotten one small but essential element? Has your son happily informed you that it is impossible to do his math assignment because you have no graph paper? Well, I have! It's frustrating. This article is about those bits and pieces. How to keep from an abrupt termination of your plans by having on hand certain homeschool essentials.

Daily Planning Resources by EHO Staff
Resources, forms, and more to help you with your daily lesson and curriculum planning.Resources, forms, and more to help you with your daily lesson and curriculum planning.

To Organize or Not to Organize...Do I Really Have To? Colored Storage Bins and Other Tales for the Organizationally Challenged by Shari Crooks
Part of being better organized is the way you organize.

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Quick Advice for College Forms & Transcripts by Beverly S. Krueger
If you've never been told by an experienced homeschooler to keep track of all the major and minor accomplishments of your high school aged children, I'm telling you now. Do it! I'm glad I had been working on my record keeping from the start. Even with all the proper records, it can be a scramble.

Planning Forms

	Weekly schedule or weekly schedule in MS Word format
	Daily Schedule or daily schedule in MS Word format
	Customized Weekly Planner I've put together an electronic weekly curriculum planner which I use to generate a weekly checklist for my kids. The weekly curriculum planner can be used to lay out weekly goals for the whole year. Quarterly you can do a mail merge in MSWord and generate a Weekly Student Planner for the quarter you are working in. This series of templates also allows for plenty of lined sheets between each week for recording other activities. These planners can be used as grade books as well...thus reducing the home teachers workload of multiple student and teacher planners, attendance books and grade books. Each student now has one book for ALL purposes...you can even add chores as you customize your own worksheets.     Andrew Bare Just added an Excel Master Planner.
	Reading List or reading list in MS Word format
	Attendance Record Sheet (This file doesn't look very good in Adobe Acrobat Reader, but it prints out fine.)

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Doing It All: The Struggle for Your Home by Beverly S. Krueger
This is the second installment in a three part series on Doing It All. In this article we'll explore the struggle for your home. How are you prioritizing and how are you organizing?

Homeschool Management Tips! by Tamara Eaton
Time-management has always been an interest of mine, but when I had four children in four and a half years, it became more than an interest, it was a matter of sheer survival. I couldn't possibly do everything, so I had to learn to establish priorities, find creative ways to do the necessary things, and put everything else on hold.Time-management has always been an interest of mine, but when I had four children in four and a half years, it became more than an interest, it was a matter of sheer survival. I couldn't possibly do everything, so I had to learn to establish priorities, find creative ways to do the necessary things, and put everything else on hold.

Managing Our Time by Tamara Eaton
Successful time-management consists of so much more than who can get the most done in the least amount of time--as Christians, we want to be sure we're about our Father's business and fulfilling His plans for our lives. We need reminders of this often--it's easy to get caught up in doing, doing, doing and get ahead of the Lord so much that we end up asking Him to bless what we've already decided to do instead of waiting for His wisdom and timing.Successful time-management consists of so much more than who can get the most done in the least amount of time--as Christians, we want to be sure we're about our Father's business and fulfilling His plans for our lives. We need reminders of this often--it's easy to get caught up in doing, doing, doing and get ahead of the Lord so much that we end up asking Him to bless what we've already decided to do instead of waiting for His wisdom and timing.

A Helping Hand Advice Column Questions

Question:
This is my second year homeschooling, and I'm feeling overwhelmed. I feel like everyone is making demands on my time and energy. I'm being pulled this way and that and don't feel like I'm really accomplishing anything. Help!