Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?

Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?

Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.

I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and

into the wonder. Let's do this. Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Homeschool Better

Together podcast. I am so happy that you are joining me here on this grand new adventure.

So we are finishing up the school year at our house. We've got just a couple of weeks left. And actually,

I've already pulled out the I'm done list. Now, I'm fairly certain that this was something that I learned from

Amy Sloan at Humility and Doxology. I think it was her one year who wrote the blog post on the

I'm done list or the I'm finished list. And if I can find that, I'll link it for you down in the show

notes. And so the beauty of this is

you make a list for your kids with all the things that they have to do in order to be done for

the year. And so you're kind of looking at how much you have left to do. You're kind of taking the

temperature of the school year. and then you're writing out

this simple list of like, this is what you've got to get finished. And if you get this finished,

you could be done for the year. So let me give you a few examples. My son is watching some videos

for history for this year and doing some questions related to each video. And so I had him count up the number of videos that he had left.

And so basically on his I'm done list, I said, you have to finish all the videos.

And so he counted it up.

And I think he had seven left to go.

He can do one a day and he could kind of be done with that in seven school days. The other thing I had

him do is look at where he was in his grammar program and it's done by week. And I said, okay, when you get

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