It’s Monday morning . . .
Your eyes open and you’re either thinking, “Yippee, I’m all ready to start the homeschool week and so are the kids!”. Or more realistically you’re thinking, “I’d better get up, down some caffeine and get it together before everyone else is up!” As a homeschool mom of 18 years, it took a while to figure out my groove. Often times my weekly plan was mapped out on Sunday afternoon. Most of the time . . . I prepared each child’s schedule as a Word document and printed it out. It included chores and outside activities. We’d often have an informal Monday morning meeting over breakfast for the hand-off and prayer. But looking back, the most effective way to have weekly harmony and be finished with academics by Mid-May was to have my kids take control of their own schedule (risky, I know:). With them handling their schedule it also teaches them a very useful life skill–keeping track of their life. So, looking back and compiling things that worked and didn’t work, here’s my take on Bullet Journals for Homeschool Kids: Teaching Lifelong Organizational Skills. The same bullet journal ideas can easily be used for children that attend school outside the home.
