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Do any of you make out a daily lesson list for your children to follow? I want my ds to do quite a bit independently this year. I was thinking of giving him a lesson book and just having it all laid out for him. Or I could copy the Bigger pages and put them in a notebook for him. What do you all do for your older students? Do you plan it out daily or weekly for them, put it in a notebook, etc? What is you method for giving them a list of daily lessons they are to do?

Last year I had a very general one, but I am not sure that works really well, because it wasn't very specific. The kids just followed along with the next page where the left off, etc. Thanks for you suggestions!

P.S. The plan I gave the last year just was a general schedule of the day in the subjects they were to do. It didn't include page numbers to read, etc. Just to make that clear!

At the beginning of Bigger I was writing down the list of ind. stuff for DD to do along with page numbers and when to see me first. Now I expect her to be able to look in the Teacher's Guide to be able to see what she needs to do, which books she needs, and whether or not there's an activity or whatever that she needs me for. So basically I don't write any lesson plans any more, I just expect her to use the TM just like I do. Of course since she's just 8 I do make sure she's read the instructions first, but by the time we start Preparing sometime this fall I really do not expect to have to check up after her. I don't really HAVE to now. I'll just check her work at the end.

I made a checklist for each of my boys to try out for this year. (Someone else passed this idea along to me and then I changed it a little bit. Credit goes to that other person!) It is in the same pattern as the manual. (Actually, the pattern matches Bigger because my oldest son is doing Bigger.) I thought I'd laminate it so that they can use dry-erase markers on it and check off as they go. This is the Beyond one. The orange boxes are for non-HOD stuff. At the bottom right of the page I have boxes that can be checked so we do Spanish 3 times a week but it doesn't matter which days and keeps it separate from the HOD stuff.

Maybe a checklist like this would be helpful? Something he could be in charge of and keep him on task?

Sorry it's so big. Can't figure that out right now. Have to work on that and edit my post later.

Thank you for this schedule, Cyndi. How would I print this out? Also, how would I make one of these with the boxes and such? What computer program do you use for that?

Thanks so much! And thank you MomtoJGJE, for you comment too. I will take that into consideration as well.

Blessings!

If you PM me, I'll email it to you. I used Open Office, but have converted it to excel to send to whomever wants one. Converted it to pdf so I could convert it to a jpeg to get it to post to the site. Shew! Anyone else that wants it, feel free to pm me as well.

I made a similar checklist for my kids. I put it in the front of their 3 ring binder in a plastic page protector. My girls just check it off, but you could easy write page # in the box or have your kids write them each day from the manual.

What an awesome check-off sheet . Thank you for sharing.

I tried writing out each day what they had to complete on a dry erase board. It didn't work so well here because my younger DDs would erase the whole board for fun.

I keep meaning to make up some paper checklists, but I haven't gotten around to it.