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I am new to homeschooling (only on our third month). We are using DITHOR right now and we love it. This led me to deciding on Preparing for next fall--I have an 11 yr old boy and 9 yr old girl. I am pretty confident on placement. I have read every single post I can find about placement
My question is this: How do you deal with the logistics of conveying the daily work to your kids? How do your individual kids keep track of what is done for that day and what isn't? I have to track hours for our state. Right now I have a schedule where I write down what we are doing for that day in each area. I keep these and put them in my 3 ring binder with hours totaled up for the week. Should I make copies of each day of the TM and give them to the kids? I just can't envision how this part will work and I need to have it all figured out for my own sanity. Any and all ideas of how people handle this aspect of their day would be very much appreciated

Thanks so much,
Lisa

Your kids can check off in the guide with a certain color each time they do it. Or you can make an excel spreadsheet to check off. Like History U 2D4., I History U2D4' I science U 2 D4, etc. I did this at times to help them have a checklist of everything. Including piano, clean up work area, etc.

You can also record your days in a planner after you do them. I like the Well Planned Day.

It depends on your children some. I have an online site I like to use. I also like to print out what my children need to do on their own.
Timers are also our friends. I like to make up my own planner, nobody has one I just really like, and with HOD you don't need a full one anyway.
Since you have to keep track of hours, you obviously need more than I do. Hope this gives you a few ideas.

Welcome to homeschooling and HOD! You are going to love it!

Hi momoflh, and welcome to the HOD Board! You received solid advice here already. I'd not make more unnecessary work for yourself, but instead use the guide to log your work. This works beautifully with HOD! The "Introduction" of each guide may be copied and handed in to whomever is overseeing your homeschooling, if need be, and this explains each subject area's work and skills taught very nicely. The daily pages should not be copied (copywork infringement, not to mention way toooo much copying for comfort ), but they can be initialed to show students have completed their work. The guides (starting with PHFHG on up) act not only as teacher's guides but also as student planners. Student should read the directions in the "I" independent boxes themselves and follow them independently. We have our dc mark the corners of the boxes with their first initial each time they complete a box. This has worked so well, as we use the guides a second and third time, for I can see years back "W" marked for Wyatt finishing his work, and "R" marked for Riley finishing his work, and soon "E" will be marked for Emmett finishing his work. The "Table of Contents" in the front of each guide lists the Unit numbers and themes. You can just jot the dates (i.e. April 10-13) next to each unit as it is completed to record progress. As dc complete their work, they keep a portfolio with tabs. This shows all the work completed for the year and is a lovely keepsake as well. HTH! I think you are going to enjoy HOD in your home so much! It is nice to meet you, and I look forward to getting to know you here.

In Christ,
Julie

For us, I can generally know after about a month into a guide how long each box is going to take. So I can judge time to put down based on that. We don't actually have to keep hours, just days, but I know how much time a days work will take.

As far as keeping track of what is done and what isn't.... First of all I check in at some point of their day with each child to check any notebooking, art, narrations, whatever other work they have done (well, this is somewhat theoretical as my oldest is the only one I actually do this with yet ) So that way I see that it's been done and can address anything that needs to be done.

Also, I like the idea of workboxes, but don't have space for them... so every day when someone is done with their work for the day I'll go through the next day of plans and stack up all books and gather any papers they need (blank paper, lined paper, science experiment pages, etc.). When they finish something they put the book up so we know where they are and what they have left by what books are still out. Workboxes would be the same I'm assuming.