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Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Planning and scheduling

your homeschool studies involve several steps, five steps, really. You start with the big picture,

and then you zoom in on this year. And then I like to take that year and break it into three terms and figure out what I'm going

to be doing in each term.

And then I take each term and do the last two steps.

I plan my weekly schedule, determining which subjects we'll do on which days of the week, and finally, once

I have all of that figured out, I can plan my daily schedule with confidence, knowing that

I'm not missing anything.

I've covered those five steps in more detail in another episode and in my book, Planning Your Charlotte Mason Education.

I'll leave links in the show notes for you, in case you would like more guidance walking

through all the steps. Today, I want to focus on that last step, planning your homeschooled

day. Once you know which subjects you want to do each day, think about the order in which you

schedule them.

I want to share a little secret with you that will either help your child to pay attention

throughout the day or make it more difficult for him to pay attention.

Charlotte Mason explained the situation this way.

This much is certain and is very important to the educator.

The brain, or some portion of the brain, becomes exhausted when any given function has

been exercised too long. Home education, page 24.

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