Piney Woods Homeschool

I'm in the process of scheduling Year 3 for the fourth time.  I'm going to blog my way through the process, in case seeing my thought processes helps some of you.  Bear in mind that of course what works for me may not be what works for you, ditto for my child and your child, and that my process varies somewhat from term to term and year to year.  I school four days a week because one day a week is spent at the park and at band, so that may be different from how you schedule too. *** My section labels in these schedules are fairly arbitrary.  I don't really care if the label matches the section's contents. I downloaded the chart schedule in the .doc format from the AmblesideOnline Year 3 schedule page .  I prefer to manage my charts from Google docs right now, even though they don't print quite as nicely from there, so I uploaded my file to Google drive, opened it, renamed it, and shared it with my child and my husband (view only so that my child w...

In planning for our upcoming AmblesideOnline Year 5 Term 1 , I'm adding in the optional science book Physics Lab in a Hardware Store  by Bob Friedhoffer . Part II  Part III For this 12-week term, we'll divide up the readings like this: Intro pp. 21-23 pp. 23-25 pp. 26-27 pp. 28-29 pp. 29-30 pp. 30-32 pp. 33-36 pp. 37-39 pp. 39-42 pp. 43-46 pp. 46-50 Supplies Items to view (These aren't necessarily required in person, as the book has illustrations of them and they aren't needed for activities.) tape measure open-jawed calipers vernier calipers sandpaper with various coarseness (can be observed in the store) file motor oil graphite paraffin wax axe hatchet maul splitting wedge cold chisel wood chisel plane wooden wedge ladder various types of screws, including wood screws and machine screws (bolts) and nuts Phillips screwdriver toggle anchors and Molly anchors Items to use (These are needed for observations and activit...

My oldest will begin Year 10 in a few weeks. Yesterday I visited the AmblesideOnline website , pulled up the Year 10 schedule page, and downloaded the .doc version of the Detailed schedule . I uploaded that to Google Drive and shared it with my dd and dh, granting them editing privileges. Dd can participate in the making of her schedule.  (The Basic schedule for Year 10 probably looks substantially different from the Detailed schedule.  Beginning in Year 7, the Basic schedule is no longer just the Detailed schedule without showing other options but rather is a lighter schedule that has fewer books read more slowly and in some cases even uses different books.) Today she and I looked over the Term 1 booklist , pulling out some of our physical books to examine and consider. We know we must pare down. For instance, Year 10 Term 1 has books scheduled under Theology, Worldview, and Citizenship. We decided to just keep the Citizenship titles on our schedule for this term. The ot...

I am creating my version of AO's chart schedule for the first term of Year 7.  Bear in mind that of course what works for me may not be what works for you, ditto for my child and your child, and that my process varies somewhat from term to term and year to year.  I school four days a week because one day a week is spent at the park and at band, so that may be different from how you schedule too. *** My section labels in these schedules are fairly arbitrary.  I don't really care if the label matches the section's contents. I downloaded the chart schedule in the .doc format from the AmblesideOnline  Year 7 Detailed schedule page .  (The  Basic schedule page  probably looks much different.  Starting in Year 7, the Basic schedule includes fewer assignments spread over a longer period of time and sometimes even schedules different resources than the Detailed schedule.) I prefer to manage my charts from Google docs right now, even though they do...

I had thought about adding to AmblesideOnline's Year 5 science schedule some extra readings from The Way We Work and The Way Things Work to go along with our other science.  But I'm changing course, so I'm saving here the first term's extra readings that I already had scheduled for future reference. Here's the schedule for The Way We Work: Way We Work 86-91 70-75 100-101 112-119 106-111 76-81 60-67 150-155 156-159 178-183 184-185 270-271 And here's the schedule for The Way Things Work: Way Things ----- p. 158-9 p. 258-9 p. 266-7 ----- p. 268-9 p. 274-7 p. 280-1 ----- p. 284-7 p. 288-9 -----

I have nearly finished creating my version of AO's chart schedule for the first term of Year 5.  Since it's fairly fresh in my mind, I'm going to describe the process I used in case it's helpful.  Bear in mind that of course what works for me may not be what works for you, ditto for my child and your child, and that my process varies somewhat from term to term and year to year.  I school four days a week because one day a week is spent at the park and at band, so that may be different from how you schedule too. *** My section labels in these schedules are fairly arbitrary.  I don't really care if the label matches the section's contents. I downloaded the chart schedule in the .doc format from the AmblesideOnline Year 5 Detailed schedule page .  (The Basic schedule page should pretty much match for Year 5.  At this level, the Basic schedule just doesn't show you any of the alternate titles you could use instead of the first choice titles.) I prefer ...