My Yearly Charlotte Mason Homeschool Plans for 2024-2025 (Part I: Schedule)

Today, I'm sharing My Yearly Charlotte Mason Homeschool Plans for the 2024-25 year (Part 1 - Time Table/Schedule - Term 1 only). My planning is in three parts: schedule, booklist, and lesson plans. 

In this first part, I want to give you a look at our Time-Table (Schedule) for Term 1. Just in case you want to see the schedule up close, here is a free printable.

Preliminary Notes!

• We are doing a gentle nursery time for age 1.
• We are doing kindergarten (year 0) again for age 5-6.
• Due to A's birthday falling in September, she is considered as a kindergartener this year by the public school.  So, for simplicity (and required state testing later) we are in year 0.
• We will be using a modified kindergarten booklist which will be a bit more advanced. We will be doing some Form 1B work this year as well.

I will not be spending a lot of time on this post, because of A's wanting me to play this afternoon. But, let me quickly give you a run-down of the term 1 schedule.

First of all, I am doing something different this year (due to modified plans), I will be lesson planning term-by-term and printing my plans. In this planning series, I will be sharing Term 1 only.

So, the first step in planning, as you are looking over that booklist is to make a doable schedule. I always include that schedule right in my teacher guides. ​

My time slots are very simple (left column). I like to plan, first, around set mealtimes. Homekeeping and mother culture are included in the time table (right column). I will share more below too. 

• Morning.  From wake time until before 9:00 am. Mother Culture (details below) can happen in the quiet morning hours before children arise. Next, comes Breakfast & Morning Routine (get ready).

 

• 9:00 am - Program 1.  Morning Collective is on Mondays: Prayer, Pledge, Calendar, Recitation, Letter-of-Week Art, Picture Book, Nursery Craft & Song. Morning Time is on Tuesday - Thursday: Devotional and Charlotte Mason recitations for form 1.  Nursery Lesson will be together on Mondays (Craft & Song).  I am getting a preschool craft table for this wonderful together time!  9:20 will be Program 1. Modified Christian Study: Old Testament, Old Testament, World History, American History, Geography, Social Study. Last 20 minutes: Outdoor Walk or Gardening.

 

• 10:00 am - Program 3. Modified Individual Study: Math, Language Arts, Science, Seatwork (Handwriting, Copywork, Sentences, Fine Motor Skills). 

 

• 11:00 am - Program 2.  Electives & Enrichments. Electives: Myself, Ballet. Enrichments: Enrichment Study 1 (First Half), Piano Lessons, Singing Lessons.

 

• 12:00 - 4:00 pm.  Lunch and Afternoon Occupations. This includes more outdoor time.

 

• 5:00 pm.  Dinner as a family around the table & dishes.

 

• Evening.  Free time, ballet, library, evening reset.

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• Bedtime.  Children's Hour & Mom's Hour.

Mother's Time-Table (right column).

• Mother Culture. I will be completing term 1 of A Mother's Companion for a Happy Home - Free Sample. This schedules in everything from devotions, fitness, to beauty, to more.

 

• Nursery Lesson, Baby Bath, Baby Walk. This works together with our 9:00 am program and I have a mother's helper (older daughters).

 

• Homekeeping. This is fitted-in throughout depending on how we delve out the dutiers. I like to follow the schedules in a vintage book, "Making Housekeeping Easy." 

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• Evening Reset. This is going through the home to tidy and close blinds. Setting the breakfast table is an option.

I'd love to hear from you. Be sure to leave a comment fellow homeschool mother!