Organizing and Planning Your Homeschool

A few websites that I find extremely helpful for organizing our life and homeschool. 

Homeschool lesson planning online:
http://www.homeschoolskedtrack.com/

Online family calendar:
http://www.cozi.com/landing/best-family-organizer

A few tips and how to use Google to help you stay on top of your game. People will be like, "Gurl, how do you do it?!"

Google Drive. Upload stuff to Google Drive. If you have a Google account you automatically get 15 gigs.  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6558?hl=en

...or email digital copies to yourself.

I don't have a whole lot of space to keep hard copies of everything around. Lets face it, stuff gets lost, PCs crash, accidentally thrown away, misfiled or destroyed.  Sometimes I need a document copy in a flash. Its easy to perform a search through email and whip out that puppy like a boss. When your PC crashes (God forbid) you'll still have copies of those so important records. 

Google Calendar. You can add external calendars like the Liturgical Calendar from Universalis (http://www.universalis.com/calendar.htm#0 (Scroll all the way down to add this to your Google Calendar)

If you prefer paper to digital here are a few resources that I have used and still use.

Catholic calendar, planner, lesson planner and menu planner:
http://www.michelequigley.com/store/shop/

...print Lesson Planners, Household Planners, Calendars, Handwriting Lessons, printable worksheets or papers for several subjects. http://donnayoung.org/

The Bullet Journal. For the list-makers, the note-takers, the Post-It note pilots, the track-keepers, and the dabbling doodlers. Bullet journal is for those who feel there are few platforms as powerful as the blank paper page. It’s an analog system for the digital age that will help you organize the present, record the past, and plan for the future. - See more at: 
http://www.bulletjournal.com

Spiral notebook assignment and lesson planning. Find it here. 
http://amongstlovelythings.com/spiral-notebooks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmongstLovelyThings+%28Amongst+Lovely+Things%29

I keep a composition book with me at all times. Composition books are small enough to keep in my purse. I always have a place to jot down notes, appointments, phone numbers and project planning. I write start and finish dates on the front cover. When I'm done I file it away.

A blast from the past on making a homeschool schedule,2010. http://brisenobunch.blogspot.com/2010/12/briseno-bunchs-faq.html

My hope is that you find something that works for you. I have used all of these and some of these at different times of our life when it suited our family. 

Have a great day and may He always be your strength for the journey.

Briseno Bunch's FAQ 1 & 2

The first most FAQ is #1"Are these all your children?" And the second is #2, "How do you do it?" I don't mind answering any of these questions. It's mostly the frequency of them that gets to me a little. I typically try to answer them as cheerfully as I can because I love my family and I am proud of them. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

 #1"Are these all your children?"
 Yes.

 #2, "How do you do it?"

Besides the obvious, it takes much, much planning and tweaking to figure it all out.  Its been a whole lot better since joining CLAA and the results of reworking my schedule around CLAA's model has been an answer to my prayers! My previous schedule was pretty close to CLAA's model but my own schedule was centered around chores and schoolwork. Now we work around our prayer schedule. And that has made a big difference. CLAA's very helpful article on scheduling can be found here by following this link:  How to Create a Schedule

Below is our schedule. It's working. Thank you Jesus! And that's how we do it.

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