nitty gritty

I have had many planning sessions over this upcoming school year. Adding C to the mix has given me many nights of pondering "how am I going to attempt this" knowing that my first try will need to be tweaked or completely scrapped, depending on how things go.

But still I'd like to come as close to a workable system as possible the first time around, right? I've settled on grouping M2 and M3 together for history (so I'm only reading and working narrations once with them together instead of twice for each of them individually which should help), and I've settled on the actual books for C. (I still don't have a plan for juggling them, but that will just work itself out . . .  all right, all right, I'll come back to that later.)

Now it's time for the nitty gritty of planning. No more grand sweeping visions and generalizations. Time to get specific and schedule all those readings into weekly lesson plans.

I confess , I was tempted to plan the entire year cause, you know, it'd just be done, right? And this is work I love doing. Just imagine . . .

((cue the music))

Thirty-six weeks for each of my children lovingly planned and safely bound in each of their planners. Book titles, chapters, and page numbers for each of those 180 days (well actually 720 cause there are 4 of them) ready and waiting for my precious babies to joyfully sit down to every morning . . .

((this is where the needle is yanked off the record player))

Past experience whispered in my little ear (ok, she actually got more insistent and a little rude the longer I ignored her).

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!

So, scheduling one week, in pencil, for four different students, is good for starters.