But luckily, I am no longer foolish. This spring I took the plunge and did a free trial of Homschool Planet. Within 3 days I purchased a year subscription which they added on to my 30 day trial. It changed my life. Truly!
The Homeschool Planet is an online planning, calendar, and scheduler. It is a way for you to post the lessons that your students need to complete AND more importantly at my house, know whether people have actually completed them!
I love this! I pull up my view and say things like. . . Why is math not completed? I am confused as to why you have not done that for two days? Hmm, it looks like you will be doing math on Saturday. I also say things like, WOW! You completed all your work today. Look at how close we are to the end! I am so proud of you!
The other part that has been powerful for my students is that it has the feature of moving all the assignments forward. My students began to understand that not doing something adds it on to the end of the year. It was a good visual reminder.
You can also add music practice, track grades, put your vacations in, send your students an email with their assignments, and much more.
So this would be a great time to try a free trial. I HIGHLY recommend it.
Here's something I've been wondering about -- when you say your kids mark off what they've done, what does that look like? Do they all have devices and their own access? Do they mark it off on the family computer (and how do you get them to remember to mark things off)? What does the individual child follow-through look like for you? (Thanks!)
ReplyDeleteHello Christy! Sorry for the delay. Good question. On Homeschool Planet there is a check box next to the item. When you click on it once it will turn green to say it is completed. If you child clicks on it twice it turns partial which means it is in progress. My kids do a great deal of work on the computer and we have more than one computer. So they will do their computer work and mark it off. That is from the 12 year old and up. My younger ones I ask and watch and mark it off for them. Every day when you log into Homeschool Planet it lets you know if someone did not do an item. That is when I say. . "hey. . what happened." That is when true confessions begin. We work it out from there. I hope that helps Let me know, those are great questions.
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