You are so welcome, so glad that you found this to be helpful! Please reach out with any questions you may have as you move forward. One of the great benefits of homeschooling is our ability to be flexible with what will best serve our children and our family.

Charlotte recommended the following lesson lengths: 1st - 3rd grade - 15 to 20 minutes per lesson 4th - 6th grade - 20 to 30 minutes per lesson 7th - 9th grade - 30 to 45 minutes per lesson 10th - 12th grade - 45 minutes+ per lesson Per school day total, you'll want to remember the principle of short lessons. And here is a blog that will help you see per grade levels per day: simplycharlottemason.com/blog/how-to-finish-lessons-by-lunch/ Grades 1-3 ~2.5 hours Grades 4-6 ~3 hours Grades 7+ from ~ 3 hours 15 minutes - ~4 hours

These are some great considerations for how to plan your school year and how this may look different depending on where you live! Thanks for stopping by and sharing what has worked well for your family!

My brain doesn't like structure either. Neither does my son's it seems. Did you find a schedule that works well for you? If so, I'm curious which one worked best.

You are so welcome!

Thank you for joining us and sharing how you figured out what would work best for your family! So glad that you found this video helpful and that you have figured out a great scheduling plan for the upcoming year!

We did that for the first time last year, and absolutely loved it.

Me too!

I got interrupted before I asked my question, and then I forgot about it. (baby brain here!) Do you have a video showing how you'd keep track of this schedule and record what you'd done? I live in a state with very few requirements, but I would think that tracking how many weeks you'd done, what you'd done and when would be very helpful. Thanks!

Hi, Thank you for joining us! You can keep track of your schedule in any way that works best for your family! You can keep a planner and just mark down those project days in the planner indicating that is what you have done. Simply Charlotte Mason also has an online system to keep track of what you have done, which you may be interested in, you can find out more about this resource here: simplycharlottemason.com/store/cm-organizer/

Exam week is usually held the last week of the 12-week term, or Week 12 of each term. In your 36-week school year, then, exam weeks would be scheduled for weeks 12, 24, and 36.

@@SimplyCharlotteMason okay. Thanks so much. I wasnt sure if it was a 12 week term with the 13th week being the exam week. Or the way you said.

This is an area where you know your family best and your capacity to school around life events or illnesses as needed. I would encourage you to give yourself much grace and yes, you can either build in some days ahead of time for the unexpected or work the extra school days in as needed.

I think because 36 weeks = 180 days, the typical amount of school days public school does, and it is probably, therefore, required in many states.

You could certainly do more than 36 weeks. Most states require at least 180 days of school, which is 36 weeks if you school on weekdays.

A great rhythm for 3 weeks on and 1 week off is to use that week off as a project week. Here are some ideas: simplycharlottemason.com/blog/a-project-week-idea/

Usually a project week. More here: simplycharlottemason.com/blog/a-project-week-idea/

@@lh77733 thank you so much!

@@SimplyCharlotteMason thank you so much! God bless you!

This is a great question and many families modify their schedules for what best fits their family. Here is an excerpt from the blog post I'll also link below to show how you could possibly keep your days the same length as a 5 day/week plan and extend the number of weeks you school: "We’ll just do our math a little differently. We said that a typical school year is 180 days. So take those 180 days and divide them by 4 days a week: 180 ÷ 4 = 45. So it will take 45 weeks to get in our school year if we do school only 4 days per week. Forty-five weeks of school, but there are 52 weeks in a year; that still leaves us 7 full weeks of vacation to use whenever we want it. You could do school only four days a week and still take 3 weeks off over the holidays and 4 weeks off in the summer or 2 weeks off over the holidays, a week off in the spring, and 4 weeks off in the summer." simplycharlottemason.com/blog/4-ways-to-schedule-your-homeschool-year/?fbclid=IwAR3bcOj_O1hZ0FcYxmqzVad3US5m3--0ebKF4NYS_H1thiYF9ddVj_F2IL8 If you want to keep the same number of weeks as a 5 day/week schedule, you'll need to be mindful of still keeping to the principle of short lessons and not overwhelming you or your students. The typical amount of time a 5 day/week schedule would be these approximate times: Charlotte recommended the following lesson lengths: 1st - 3rd grade - 15 to 20 minutes per lesson 4th - 6th grade - 20 to 30 minutes per lesson 7th - 9th grade - 30 to 45 minutes per lesson 10th - 12th grade - 45 minutes+ per lesson Per school day total, you'll want to remember the principle of short lessons. And here is a blog that will help you see per grade levels per day: simplycharlottemason.com/blog/how-to-finish-lessons-by-lunch/ Grades 1-3 ~2.5 hours Grades 4-6 ~3 hours Grades 7+ from ~ 3 hours 15 minutes - ~4 hours