Today I want to talk about something that is a big part of our job as homeschool parents.

It's something that we can spend a lot of time mulling over and discussing and even comparing with our homeschooling friends.

And it stands to reason that we put a lot of time and effort into it because it affects every single day of our children's education.

Today I want to talk about scheduling.

We are going to take a look at Charlotte Mason's weekly and daily schedules for several

grade levels and see what we can learn for our own. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Now, before we jump in, I want to make one thing very clear. I do not believe that your schedule

has to look exactly like Charlott's did. So I'm not showing

you her schedules in order to tell you to copy them. I'm a firm believer in designing your schedule

to fit your family best. But I do think we can pull some basic principles from Charlotte's schedules

that will help us to design good schedules for our own families. And that's what I want to do today.

Let's look at some of Charlotte Mason's schedules and pull key principles from them that will help us in creating our own.

If you would like to download a copy of the schedules that we will be looking at in this episode,

we have them available on a free PDF. Check the show notes for a quick link. Here's a schedule

that Charlotte used for grades 1 through 3. Now, perhaps

the first thing you'll notice is that the students were doing schoolwork six days a week. I'm

not saying you have to do that. It's just an interesting observation about that time in history.

All right, let's first look at the big picture.

Notice which subjects were taught throughout the week.

You'll see that some subjects, such as reading, were done almost every day.

Others were done on only two or three days, and some subjects were done only one day a week.

Now, in case you are wondering, let me clarify a couple of subjects that might look unfamiliar.

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