How do you set up your school?

And I am not so much meaning your classroom, but your child's daily work.

As some of us are approaching the end of the first semester I thought I would touch on how we have our daily work set up. My game plan since the beginning of school seems to be working some although I wish I was farther prepared than I am. I will touch on later why I am not though.

So how do we prepare for the week???

Every Sunday night I sit down with this {I made it using fonts from kevinandamanda.com in Photoshop with my daughter's help. She picked everything out before the school year even started. i wanted her to help so it would be something she would be excited about once school started. Something she created... I just moved the mouse and typed things in.}

My daughter likes seeing what all she needs to accomplish each week, and she loves checking off each lesson after she finishes it. So far it's been a great product we have in our school day.

Once she is done with her work she puts into this folder.

Then at the end of the day I have one spot to look for the papers to grade. :)

After I have filled out the Assignments chart above I then grab her weekly boxes.  {which are magazine boxes we picked up at IKEA. My daughter picked them since they are for her. She has been 100% involved in picking out everything we use. It's her feel she is involved in her learning.}

With each box though my daughter, at the beginning of the year, requested color coordinated 2 pocket folders for each subject. I put all of the papers that need to be done that day inside each correct folder for that same subject. Same color in every day for the same subject. {for example Bible is the purple folder everyday}

And here is how they look once everything for that day is loaded into it...

Ready for the school day

Now onto why I don't plan out farther than the week we are on {except for experiments and field trips and such} is because if we face a day where not much gets done and I see a whole month planned out... I personally would start freaking out that we are behind. And the joys of homeschooling we can do it at our pace. Our timeline, and I don't want to become a tyrant with pushing lessons, lessons, lessons to catch up for the sake of being caught up. I want to make sure we are understanding what we are learning and HAVING FUN. So for the time being {and while I work on my mindset of trying not to freak out if behind some} I will continue to plan a week at a time. Although it'd be nice to have it all done and not have to worry about it. lol That's for another year I guess. :)

How do you set up your students work for the week??? I would absolutely love to  know! I love seeing new ideas. So please please please share!!! I look forward to what you have to share. :)

{I'm linking up with the Hip Homeschool Hop today... Come on over and check it out! If you linked up too I'd love to know. Happy Homeschooling Everyone!}