making a timetable

[esp]

any one know off the top of their head how many times everything has to occur in the week?

is this right?
maths x 4
english x 4
social studies x 1
science x 1
health x1
art x 1

and for the art component - when the BOS man came he seemed upset that some of the kids work was repetitive - does this mean that I need to record more than the weekly pottery lesson (we do a lot more anyway but it's good to keep up appearances).

[esp]

(spot the woman who needs to see the BOS soon!)

[Beatrice]

I think that *generally* at school they do maths and literacy every day, but at home I can't see why any more than half an hour a day would be necessary to put down. My daughter tends to do a couple of hours work every couple of days *shrug*

When I did a timetable I just blocked in an hour or two in the mornings when we're at home and said that's when we did bookwork, but I put time for maths in the evening and on the weekend when DH was home because he's the maths geek in the house.

In my experience they don'treally care about anything except maths andenglish :rolleyes

[esp]

yeah I was more just trying to get the "correct" things at the correct times IYKWIM?
I can't say we stick to anything other than our meet ups and actual classes but if I have to show what I am doing I want to make it look good.
The only thing we are religious about is daily reading and it is every day and at the same time. What he reads is entirely up to him.
Heket your BOS person must be a LOT nicer than mine. He was a total ass last time so i want to be prepared. i have been putting it off!! But I know I have to get the work done for it so that I can push on.

[Beatrice]

I had a nice colour-coded timetable with everything blocked out. It looked very professional :lol

[esp]

Yes I think that colours might be a good idea. I was thinking that I should make it look pretty and put it on the fridge ;)

[Beatrice]

Good idea :lol I'm just lucky that the authorised person never asked B about it because I don't think I ever even showed it to her and she certainly would have looked completely blank if they had :uhh

[~*heket*~]

:lol

My "person" was fine. A bit painful and finicky and all in love with curriculum, but on the whole it wsn't as bad as it could have been :blueroll

[cgull]

You have to have a TIMETABLE?

[Ceres]

I am not planning to use a timetable at all!

[Beatrice]

Our guidelines ask for "An outline of a typical week's work". It doesn't have to be a timetable, and this last application I didn't include one, I just mapped out her regular commitments and then a brief rundown of the kinds of things she does with the rest of her time. I did do up a timetable when our last authorised person was a close-minded, officious ex-teacher, though :rolleyes It basically just blocked out her regular commitments and then put in blocks of time when we might do activities which focused on particular KLAs. Think of it as camouflage :lol

[cgull]

I love 'no maths on Monday rule' :rofl

but it must be so hard to implement - no baking, shopping, board games (especially monopoly)... are you allowed to look at the clock?:p

[jikki]

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[Belinda]

In a school timetable usually maths and english would be every day. Social Studies (now called S&E) Science, Art, LOTE (languages other than English), and T&E (Technology and Enterprise) once, but teachers sometimes get around this by having Intergrated Learning (basically Unit studies) where a variety of stuff gets rotated throughout the year. Reading time everyday looks good on paper! Don't be afraid to put down things that are available to the child(ren) all the time (like drawing for art).

[homebirthmum]

O wow i luff living in victoria. That sounds horrendous.

[Kris]

I love 'no maths on Monday rule' :rofl

but it must be so hard to implement - no baking, shopping, board games (especially monopoly)... are you allowed to look at the clock?:p

:lol That's absolutely brilliant!

[cgull]

:)

[Kris]

Here we are contemplating registration and deciding that timetable making might be a good way to focus on whether we have things we'd like our children to learn/absorb this year.

What's sprung to mind is looking at the benchmarks for each year and then seeing how we can incorporate them into how we live our lives.

[Snooty]

I'm trying my hand at epic integrated unit studies, and it turns out I'm super excellent at making baking a cake look like rocket science.

Incorporating literacy and numeracy skills write ups in whatever you are doing at the time is a crap load easier than trying to show how you're doing math and english "classes" a bunch of times a week. Reading a recipe is reading, accurately interpreting, and following a set of written instructions; that's a key learning outcome for Year One English, so, hey presto!, hanging out and cooking together just made it to English class status! It's all in the language you use. ;)

[Kris]

I bow down to you oh creator of clarity Snooty. That's going to make our evening meeting much easier.

[gecko]

how typical of educational systems - so long as everything "looks" ok. sigh.

I just get to the end of the day and jot down what we did and match it up with an essential learning. Not a requirement, but it only takes a few min and it is a record incase I ever get asked. sort of a reverse time table? :shrug It all seems to work out in the end
PS - like snooty said - it is whatever we are doing for the day. anything can become a lesson in whatever you need it to be

[Ceres]

Snooty, would you mind sharing your cake baking study with the forum? I'd love to build up some resources of examples like this!