I have many plans over the next couple of years to make our homeschool more structured and streamlined--such as chronological humanities study from ancient times to the present, a strong language arts program, lots of hands-on activities, games and field trips, a rich home ec education for dd4 (and myself), and a custom-built Bible curriculum, amongst other things (whew!). To get there, we are going to first of all need an overhaul in our organization systems in our home. It's a big job, but if we all work together, we'll get there by and by (praying for a miracle) :-).
So... I figure that getting organized is as good a place as any to start improving our homeschool.
To start down the road to get there, I have come up with a few goals to accomplish by the end of next week. (I work five out of the next six nights, starting with tonight, so I'm giving myself a little leeway on the time frame. After that, I plan on posting weekly goals.) My goals for this post are as follows:
1) Work at least two hours on cleaning and organizing the house every day that I am off work.
2) Clean our (dh's and mine) bedroom in the following phases --
* Find a home somewhere in the house for all my movies and put them there.
* Organize my desk and the area beneath it.
* Organize the space between my desk and the bed.
* Find homes for the books that are spread out to the left of my desk ~ 4 feet.
* Organize the rest of the area between my desk and dh's closet door.
* Organize the area between dh's closet door and the bed.
* Organize the area between the bed and the clothing shelves.
* Organize the area between the bed and my closet door.
* Organize the area between the bed and my dressing table.
* Organize the area between the bed and the bathroom door.
* Organize the bookshelves.
* Organize the clothing shelves.
* Organize my dressing table.
* Organize my sewing cabinet.
* Organize my closet.
* Organize dh's closet.
* Set up a reading/breakfast nook in front of the bookshelves.
* Set up the bedside table.
3) Enlist dh as my assistant in this job.
I will post at least by the end of next week and let you know how all this went. Pray for me and ttfn.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
The Improving Our Homeschool Plan - Week 1
Posted by kim at 3:47 AM
Labels: homeschooling, organizing
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