#ontariohomeschooling

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Every morning starts with coffee. But after that, I use my Weekly Lesson Plan to see what’s up for the day. I put our daily plan on the white board for the kids to see what’s happening and in what order. They REALLY like knowing the plan! I find it helps a lot with transitions too. Our formal learning takes about 1-2 hours a day, the rest of the day is for play, crafts, board games, exercise, household chores, running errands, and snuggles. ❤️

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My Week-at-a-Glance plans are my short term plans. This is something I plan on a week-by-week basis. I can’t get too far ahead, bc, you know, life happens. And planning too far ahead ALWAYS ends up in changes. Now I can use this plan each day to see what we’re doing for the day and which lessons I’m presenting.

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To go along with our Long Range Plans, my Language/Grammar planning looks like this! I have two kids so that’s why there’s two columns. First I made a list of everything they’re suppose to cover for their grade level, then I organized by what they would do each week, trying to keep similar or complimentary topics together, and wrote down the corresponding unit/page number in the Grammar books I purchased for them. Each week they do the unit in the book, plus a practice worksheet I find for free via Pinterest.

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For each unit of study, I make my own unit plan. I unit involves several lessons covering the details of the broad topic they’re learning about. I love to Bullet Journal, so I plan my units this way. (Side note, an awful lot of pencil-paper scribbly planning happened before these pretty final copies were decided on). So once I’ve researched the topic (taught it to myself if necessary), found resources (books to look into, videos to watch, worksheets to work through, and activities to try), and made a lesson-by-lesson plan, I have a good idea of how long the unit will take us and how many individual lessons it will be.

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I get loads of questions about how we homeschool, so here’s some sneak peeks into our world. Everyone does things their own way, but for me, it all starts at the beginning of the year with my Long Range Plans. I use the Ontario Curriculum Guide to know what they should be covering, add in the extras we want them to learn or they’re especially interested in, and organize it all over the course of the school year.