Homeschool Planning | Plan with Me 2019

hi and welcome today as I invite you to plan along with me I'm going to be planning my school year using our autopilot planning process and I am asking you to come along [Music] hi everyone I am Pam Barnhill and I help moms find freedom and flexibility in home-school planning you don't think those two things go together well I am here to show you that they do so go ahead and hit the subscribe button are the little Bell to be notified whenever we have a new planning video go live so the first thing I am doing today is step one of our autopilot planning theories which is working on my homeschool vision it's always important to have your vision in place as you're getting ready to start planning for the new school year now I need an overhaul of my vision last year and and so it's pretty new and fresh I'm gonna move this in here you can see that and you know here's my vision from last year everything looks great there's really nothing I want to change on there I haven't changed my vision until last year I hadn't changed it for years and so I would just revisit it every year I wouldn't even tweak anything and even last year it didn't undergo a complete overhaul I just tweaked a few things and added a couple more vision statements in there and maybe took one or two out so my homeschool vision is good all I had to do is copy it and paste it into the lovely new forms that are available I like the new style woops I like the new styles so much and so I copied it and pasted it into there and then I have printed it out and I'm gonna three-hole punch it and it's ready to go on my homeschool binder and I am ready to move to step two in the planning process which is goals for each of my students okay so the vision step was pretty easy but the next step is going to take a little more work oh and this one is the goal step so I am on pam Barnhill comm and i'm logged into my account and I'm on the forms page and I'm gonna go ahead and download the goals worksheet okay so I'm sitting here work Olivia's goals and just taking a look at what has worked for her in the past year she does really great with group classes or online classes and discussion her math tutoring is going really well about as well as could be expected our goals for Olivia are to get her through algebra 1 algebra 2 and geometry by the time she graduates and we're on track to do that and so that's um that's what we're hoping for this is what we're after with her and then she has a growing independence in what she's doing I really noticed that she has been been able to do more things on her own we're wanting her to do more things well on her own so she can do things on her own now we want to like up the ante s too far as far as like the quality of the work she's doing on her own and kind of her stamina her academic stamina so her strengths her music she has a thirst for knowledge when she's interested in something she has a really good attitude for the most part and she's great at writing for pleasure and then the things we really need to work on our executive function skills and academic writing so I have started her a goal sheet over here and one of the things I've decided she needs to do is where I'm gonna sign her up for an online class and study skills or executive function skills and out of that I want her to create a personal plan to practice and then check in with me weekly to see how it's going so that's one of the goals we have this year and then I also want her to do one kind of written narration per week based on like a nonfiction kind of academic subject I want her to get good at summarizing and figuring out like what the most important pieces are and rewriting something in her own words and making it sound a little more academic than just the the great writing that she does for pleasure so I'm gonna give her a writing checklist that she can use so she can improve in this act writing throughout the year and these were gonna start with paragraphs so this will be something that she does like on note booking pages or something about volcanoes or you know the history of tea in China or something we're doing geography next year so whatever kind of geography topics come up our topics in her biology that come up and then the other goal I need to come up with is I need to come up with some kind of strength goal for her and honestly she's doing a teen choir at the church she's taking her piano lessons at her organ lessons every week and she is saying that she's rejoining the steel drum band at the church so I'm not even gonna write this as a goal down I mean she's pretty much got her strengths covered and we're providing those opportunities for her and we're gonna count all of that as fine arts and Performing Arts credit for her for this school year so I think we're good now I'm gonna make these for my other two children for my boys and then once I get that done I'll be ready to move on to step three of the planning process so I'll be back okay so I have my goals written for all of my kids I wrote two goals for each of my kids I filled out the goal worksheet and did that and it's really funny because for one of my kids the goal is his goals are like more goals for me and Dad mitten goals for him and we've got one kid who's not doing any physical activities anymore and so and we've got to get him out for a walk or a bike ride a few times a week so um there are different things and they were on addressing attitude I'm addressing like like physical fitness and things like that but basically I kept it to two goals for each child because those are the things I want to make sure that we get done and a lot of times the academics are gonna get done anyway so now I'm ready to move on to course study and this is where some of the fun starts happening so I'm in the course of study sheet there are actually two versions of this sheet in the auto pilot program one of them has like a four columns and one of the columns is requirements in case your state has some requirements that you have to follow my state does not and so I am going to be working on the three column form which simply has subject schedule and notes and so actually less work on I've been showing you Olivia let's work on somebody else let's work on Thomas so Thomas is my youngest child so Thomas is gonna have to do and I can never spell and talk at the same time he's gonna do language arts and and he is going to do language arts and five days a week because he's gonna be doing writing class at co-op so co-op writing class I told you I can't type in talk at the same time and this is gonna be right shop I think it's level D um and then he is going to be doing all about reading level four and it is not gonna take him the whole year to get through this he is gonna absolutely fly through this I imagine we'll be done with it by Christmas time and at which point I'll come in here and figure out where we're gonna go from there as far as language arts goes and reading and and things like that and I'll probably just come up with some books to read find something on the read aloud revival book list and use some of Sarah's questions for talking to your kids about books with them and then all about spelling so he is in all about spelling level two and he will finish that this year as well and he'll move on to all about spelling level m3 when he does so we're gonna those pretty much Monday through Friday okay so math he is doing math Tuesday through Friday because we do co-op on Monday and he is in math you see gamma and then he will start math you see Delta before the year is out our programs don't always line up with the end of the year sometimes kids are ahead sometimes they're behind but very well we get to the end of the school year we just close the book and we open up the book of the next year and start back where we left off the only thing that may hang him up here is probably not him but it could he may have to review some multiplication facts that he might have forgotten a little bit over the summer so if he needs to do that we'll spend about two weeks just doing daily multiplication drills to catch him up so because he's about to jump off into that double digit multiplication so I want to make sure that he's fresh on those so if I have to I spend a couple weeks at the beginning of the year refreshing him with those okay so language arts math what else is Thomas studying handwriting so he is going to be and we'll probably alternate this with spelling honestly and let's see so we'll probably only do this two days a week um we might do spelling Tuesdays and Thursdays and this on Wednesdays and Fridays okay we're going to be doing rollercoaster rider from half a hundred Acre Woods he's going to be learning cursive and then I wrote a goal for him so one neat piece of writing a week so I got to come up with some copy work or something for him to do that this is gonna start out print while he's learning to make his cursive letters he's going to be printing a sentence a week and the focus is just making it neat that's the big thing all right he is gonna be doing geography and this is gonna be done on Mondays and it's gonna be done at co-op and there's gonna be very little he needs to do at home every once in a while and the same with let me move me over a little bit science will be done Mondays at co-op and then as needed at home and his little class is gonna have some at home but not a ton it's gonna be mostly co-op work and you know what I do believe that is it for him I think that is absolutely all he's going to be doing other than morning time and there are a couple of subjects that in morning time this year that we're gonna do is kind of a hybrid where we're gonna do part of it in morning time and they're gonna do some of it at home so are some of it away from morning time so I'm just gonna put two days here because I'm not sure which it's gonna be and this is a story of the Bible I think that's it so other than morning time that is all he's going to be doing so we're good there I'm gonna save him out and I'm gonna work on the course of study for the other two okay just to show you a little more and this is Thomas's course of study I'm gonna save as and I'm gonna put it in this folder and we're gonna rename it john's course of study and now you can see it says john at the top so i can come in here and make some changes to this but i don't have to change everything so language arts monday through friday he is going to be doing right shop one at co-op and he is out of all about reading but he will be doing all about spelling level three so you see I'm not having to start from scratch and he is going to be doing literature the good books literature class with Angelina Stanford okay alright so there is that John is in math you see is ADA and he will finish that and move into math you see pre-algebra all right he is also gonna do roller coaster rider and you know what I'm gonna leave that one neat piece of writing a week there oh and he'll finish all about spelling level three and move into phonetics ooh before the end of the year and I'm running out of room so let's do this okay all right so geography he will also be doing co-op geography but he will have assignments that he has to complete at home for sure because he's in the older class so and the same with science and he's also going to be doing the story of the Bible and let me see is there anything else he needs to be doing next year I think that just about covers it will be doing a few things together in morning time and he'll be ready to go and the good news is I have all of this stuff and the science that they're using at co-op is elemental science biology for the logic stage and for geography at science all right co-op we're doing and this is bad when you're trying to think of all the stuff you're doing on the fly I know what it is it's geo matters trail guide to world geography there we go okay perfect okay so that looks really good and I think that's all I need to put on there for him oh one other thing he done he is gonna have an elective that's it and he is going to be doing this one to two days a week with his dad and this is the it's a coding box so he is going to be working on well it's an electronics it's 42 electronics and it's electronics encoding so he's gonna be doing that ok so I have my course of study done for each child I haven't started fully with morning-time yet that I wanted to go ahead and move on to step 4 of the autopilot planning process and that's like what days do I intend to do school this year so normally we do these forms in Adobe Acrobat and you can do this in Acrobat but I'm in good notes right now and this is actually a beta version of the good notes desktop app that I'm using but I like it because I get different highlighter colors I'm gonna use that that to show you how I fill out this form and a lot of times I just print this form out and fill it out with a pencil which is really the best way to do it but it's kind of hard to show you that on the computer so the thing I like to do at the top of this form is right in my required number of school days now I'm required to do one hundred and sixty days by my cover school I try to shoot for more than that I usually try to shoot for about a hundred and seventy I tell you it's gonna be close this year the other thing I'm gonna tell you is this year I am NOT going to mark a lot of school days in July because we're going to be on vacation in July but as a homeschool family you know that we are always learning in a few of the places we're going to Niagara Falls the Erie Canal the Museum of the Air Force I'm counting those as school days because we're gonna be learning so much on this trip so a lot of these days here at the end of July beginning of August when we are gone on vacation and to the homeschool convention and my kids are off doing all of these great and wonderful things you know going to Fort Niagara I'm totally counting them as school days on my attendance chart I'm not gonna mark on his school days on here though so I'm keeping my number around 160 is basically what I'm getting at so what I like to do is I like to use what I call magic number scheduling so I take the number of months that I'm going to do school I divide it by the number of the number of days I want to do school and divide it by the number of months so we're gonna do school from August through May so May June July so we're gonna do school ten months out of the year and I need to hit a hundred and sixty days so that needs means I need about 16 days per month of school so that's what I'm gonna shoot for as I'm making out my schedule so the sixteen days a month is my magic number so let's kind of just we're just gonna write that up here okay so I can keep that in my mind so now I'm gonna go through with my highlighter and I'm gonna highlight the days that I know I want to take off so September we have Memorial Day right there I know want to take that off the week of Thanksgiving right here I think we're doing another little family vacation I'm not quite sure when I'm gonna go ahead and mark it there and then by Christmas I'll be ready to stop here and then we'll take off here and here and here okay so I can already see I am NOT gonna get 16 days in Christmas but I earned in December but I'm gonna get 12 which is pretty good um we will probably take one day one week off in March I'm not sure which one yet um but it will be one of them I'm just gonna mark this one here and we'll see that when I reserve the right to move it around and we'll be done by the end of May um let me see even though I will be taking off a few other days I will be leaving work with the dad for the kids to do so now that I've got that done I can go through and start highlighting the days we are going to do school now we're not going to start until August 12th and we're gonna do school to 12th and we're not doing school the 14th are the 13th and the reason is because we have co-op this day we are back from traveling this day we have co-op this day we've got to go do co-op but the next day we are taking the day off and and and we'll start back full force on the 14th to get to get into our groove and get our co-op work done so we'll also be doing school here so this is my August let's count up the days we have 10 11 12 13 14 so we haven't made those 16 yet but I have a feeling we're gonna make it up elsewhere so I'm just gonna come right here and write 14 days keeping in mind we're going to be doing some days over here while we're on vacation okay so let's go back and pick up our blue again and come to September and September is going to be one of those months where we are rocking and rolling I'm going to be gone a few days in here but um dad and the kids will have a list so let's see how we did 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 day so you can see we've already made up for August and December in September so I'm gonna go ahead and grab my pen and write 20 days okay so in October whoops I need to switch back to my highlighter and let's see 10 14 18 days so once again that's another month where we are over the 16 I want to hit now because we have a couple of months where we've gone over and we also have those days in July that we're going to be doing field trips we may take these extra days off here because I'm doing the magic number I have the ability to on the fly say you know what we're going to take off the 18th and 19th of November as well or any other day that comes up so 15 16 17 once again 18 days and then when we get to December whoops she switched back to my highlighter and I about 10 11 12 now I'm gonna go through the rest of the month and keep filling in my little calendar okay so I'm through April as I'm sitting here with my calculator and I've added up all of my little blue numbers here and that's not even including the field trip days I'm gonna count in July and I already had a hundred and sixty one days so I wouldn't have to put anything in May now it just so happens that I know we've got co-op going on in May I think we're actually going through the 11th so I'm just gonna go to the 15th of May and that gives me 10 11 more days to add to my total so what this means I'm gonna add in 11 to my 161 and get 172 and then I'm gonna add those field trip days in from July which is probably gonna put me about 180 and honestly I have probably a good 10 or 15 days in here to play with that if something comes up I want to take a day off we want to go do something fun just go to the beach or you know we're not really sick we're not feeling well I mean it's so nebulous when you're homeschooling family we have plenty of grace and room to play with in here in this schedule so that is how I set up my annual schedule any of these blue days can become yellow days as long as I don't do it more than 20 times so we're good to go okay so now we're moving on to step 5 of the autopilot planning program and this one is all about weekly and daily plans and there's so many options available so many different options that we talked about in the course and I'm just kind of set in my ways sadly all you're gonna get to see here is what Pam does which is like just one teeny tiny bit of what's absolutely possible but I'm not changing so and I don't know why this forum starts at 6:00 a.m. oh my good gracious there's no way in the world I would start at 6:00 a.m. but other people might and I'm fairly certain we have an N like one without the times and the days on here so you could add your own things in there ok so we are at co-op on Monday and then on Monday afternoon Olivia has danced so I'm gonna fill those things in she actually starts at 4:30 so whoops no don't here return ok and then so what I'm starting with here is what we do outside the home because that's the stuff I have the least amount of control over is you know what we're doing away from the house so Thomas has ninja gymnastics on 3rd Tuesday afternoon and once again Olivia has danced and she starts here so yes she does a lot of dance but she loves it so that's that's a good thing all right Wednesday night this year is kind of weird for us oh no I take that back I digress John has Church but it doesn't start until like 6:30 so I don't have anybody in children's choir anymore and then let's see dance will start here on Thursday ok and then on Thursday afternoon we have music here that steel drum and piano and organ for Thomas and Olivia and Wednesday is kind of my weird day because the big kids go to - terrine and Olivia volunteers at the library and then Miss Olivia the social butterfly also has karate on Wednesday afternoon so Wednesday it's kind of a pickly day for us she may actually have to start getting up early and getting busy with things but basically these are the times that we are out of school or out of the house every week and so therefore out of school though I will say our co-op is very academic and we do count that as school so I was about to put something on 8:30 but you know what I'm gonna be really realistic here and I'm gonna come in and fill in the times that pretty much I intend on us doing school um yeah well we'll call this school slash lunch because it doesn't take us that long to eat lunch okay and I imagine there will be some school going on here as well and the other thing I actually need to go and put in this particular list is classes so we have some people taking online classes so I'm not gonna make you watch me do that but I am gonna go in and fill in those online class times and put those in there as well so that's our weekly plan now when you are doing your daily planned let me get back to my home school folder when you're doing your daily plan and there are so many different options and so many different things you could do and I have to tell you that mine is really kind of boring I'm gonna kind of show you what it looks like but it's it's so boring because basically we have two blocks in our homeschool and we have the morning time we have the morning time block and we have the independent work block I mean I would just not even fill out this form I mean basically it's go up and co-op here and then and if we just want to call these block 1 block 2 and this is gonna be morning time that's the first thing that we do now if you use this other people use this form differently and they have like more set schedules and things like that I don't I'm kind of loosey-goosey it's like this is what we do in morning time this is the block for morning time we're gonna do that first you know that one's gonna be our first block at 9:00 a.m. and then at some time probably buy before 10:00 not even 10:00 but before 10:00 we're gonna get to the independent work which is basically their spiral notebook list other people are gonna use this form in a lot more complicated way but this is just how I use this one actually like I said if I weren't filling it out for you I probably wouldn't have filled it out at all so there you go now you'll see a little more in depth on how I use a form similar to this one when I come back and show you how I'm planning my morning time so that's it for weekly in daily schedules so I've been at the planning process right now and now the videos that you're seeing are edited a little bit and I've done some things off video as well but I've been at the planning process for maybe an hour and 15 minutes at this point and I'm already through step 5 now I'm about to slow down but you can see after you've been following this process this autopilot planning process for a number of years how quickly it can go for you ok so the next step in the process in the autopilot planning process and apparently my computer is going to go a little crazy is um coming up with lesson plan lists so basically we teach you to do your lesson planning and lists and there are actually two official kinds of lists that you have and then you kind of identify which which things you're doing that are open and go so there's three technical columns of different lesson plans you would have but one of them you don't have to do because you've been smart enough to purchase and open and go curriculum yeah so I'm sitting here with my three course of study pages for my school subjects and for my kids and I'm gonna look at them and I'm gonna put them into these lists like which ones are open and go I'm done which ones do I need to make procedure list for and which ones do I need to make lesson plan lists for so I'm looking at Thomas's list and open and go is all about reading all about spelling and I am going to have to do a lesson plan list for write shop and the only reason doing that myself is because I'm the one teaching writing and co-op if not that wouldn't be there Matthew C is open and go I'm going to do a procedure list for a rollercoaster writer and let me see and I'm gonna do a procedure list for the one neat piece of writing a week because I want him to have a procedure for how to do that and then story of the Bible I think it's gonna be a procedure list if it could move to the lesson plan list column once I get it here and have a look at it okay looking at John's course of study I am gonna have to do a lesson plan list for right shop one because I'm the one teaching it at co-op let me see Matthew see yep everything on his is pretty good to go the 42 Electronics is going to be open and go so I don't need to make a list for that and then he is doing elemental science biology and trail guide to world geography with co-op so the co-op teacher will be making the lesson plan lists for those and then with Olivia I am going to need to do a procedure list for that goal that I had for her the academic writing and narration written narration for Olivia and the great thing about that is I can use it again with John or somebody else one day okay so she is doing mapping the world with art to supplement um what she is doing at co-op for geography so I'm gonna put that in the procedure list now I know what curriculum that I have that is open and go I don't have to worry actually I am gonna make a phonetic Zoo um procedure list this year because I want her to be a little more focused with that um and then John's gonna be moving into it so I now need to know what kind of lesson plan list I need to make and what kind of procedure list I need to make and then also what is open to go and I don't have to worry about so this kind of lays out for me what I need to be doing in this next step I just added Shakespeare because I'll be teaching a Shakespeare class at coop at the very end of the year so I probably won't write this one right now I probably won't write it until the fall and but these two I've got to get written before co-op starts fortunately I've already been using write shop 1 and co-op last year so it's going to be a continuation and that's gonna be easy for me to do and then I'll need procedure lists for these things so this is kind of where I slow down and start bogging down a little bit in my home school planning because now I have to pull out and look at these different curriculum and see you know what is the procedure going to be as we do each lesson in here what are the things that they're going to need to be doing so this is where I slow down a little bit okay so I did get a lesson plan list a procedure list excuse me made for phonetic zoo and and we had been getting a little Lacs and lazy with some of these steps so because we didn't write them down last year so I wanted to be sure we got them written down this year so these are the things that we're gonna be doing for phonetics ooh and I actually wrote this directly like I was talking to Olivia and then later on in the year John I'll get this as well so we're gonna be these are the steps that she's gonna follow every time she sits down to do a phonetic zoo lesson and so she'll know exactly what she needs to do and I'll print out a copy of this and probably kind of trim it up and cut it cut it out and put it in the front of that spelling spiral notebook so she'll have a copy when she needs it so I'm working my way down the rest of my list and making some more of my procedure lists and lesson plan lists and that's kind of where I'll have to hang out until I am done so I'll be back with some more of this is step 7 in the process for seeker lists or step 6 and lesson plan lists are step 7 and so this is where I'll have to hang out until I'm done with those two and then I'll be able to come back and talk about step 8 okay so now that I've finished my lesson planning it's time to move on to steps 8 9 and 10 of the process which are a little bit harder to do in real time so step 8 is all about getting things organized and in doing that we need to know what teacher materials we use how to get them to the students and how to keep everything in a single handy location so as I've been doing my planning I've been keeping a little notebook nearby where I've been making a list of all of the copies that I need and extra materials that I need to have printed and ready to go and so that is part of step eight I'm going to go through and make sure that I have all of those materials ready now I have this handy spinny thing here that I use to keep all of my teacher materials in I keep my teacher and editions of my curriculum and then any printouts that I need or any extra resources I keep in these folders and this day's real close to me in the schoolroom so I can just reach over and grab what I need so my kids I'll have a shelf and they all have one of these magazine holders actually some of them have more than one that we use to keep their books in and any little notebooks that they have so this is a place for them to put everything away at the end of the day and make sure that all of their materials stay in one spot and relatively tidy not always and then finally we use spiral notebooks and this is where I make a list of what the kids are going to be doing for their lessons each day and this tells them what they need to do now as my kids have gotten older they've started making their own spiral notebooks list which comes in really handy so all of that step 8 moving on to step 9 this is what we call the visualization step one day very soon very close to the start of school I am actually going to sit in this schoolroom and visualize my first day of school I'm going to kind of mentally walk through all the steps of the first day and think about everything that we're going to do and so this is going to remind me if there's something I've forgotten that I need to print or maybe I need to find the math DVDs or what things have I forgotten that the nine-year-old needs to be doing while I'm working with a 12 year old and that visualization step really helps me with those things now the final step in this planning process is the review step and I do that about four times a year I have a little review checklist that I go through to make sure that my plan is still working well for us and I have everything that I need I don't need to change up the plan any and I'll put a link down in the description so you can go to our website and download your own copy of this review checklist so there you have it that's our entire autopilot home school planning process that I go through every single year to get my home school year ready to go I hope you have enjoyed planning along with me and links to all of the resources including the autopilot home school planning program will be down in the description for you there [Music]

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Length: 43min 30sec (2610 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019