The Layers of Learning Podcast with Karen and Michelle is here to help you get your whole family learning together in your homeschool. We are the sisters behind Layers of Learning. We love getting together to chat about homeschooling and this podcast is just a series of our chats. We’re inviting you to listen in on our conversations.

We both have big families, but we teach almost all of our school subjects to everyone at once. We want to help you find the joy in that too, so we talk a lot about family homeschooling. To see all of our episodes, visit our Layers of Learning Podcast Page. Join us as we explore how to have a happy, hands-on, family-style homeschool.

Planning is one of the biggest struggles of homeschooling. So many of us feel like if we plan and then don’t achieve everything, we feel like failures! Listen in as we walk you through how to plan flexibly so you can see your successes and use planning for your benefit. Do you overplan? Do you have flexibility built in? Planning is so important for success, but there are a lot of pitfalls you don’t want to fall into. In this episode of the podcast, we’re discussing how you can make planning work for you and use it to truly make your homeschool more effective and in line with your goals and your kids’ overall progress. Put your homeschool on cruise control as you let effective and flexible planning work for you!

• Using planning to help you see the big picture of your kids’ progress and goals
  
  
• Using planning to make sure you have things on hand for your projects and lessons
  
  
• Planning in levels – yearly, by unit, and by week
  
  
• Using a highlighter in your planner to mark things as you complete them
  
  
• Allow yourself to move things around after you plan them…do not be married to your plans.
  
  
• Have a flex day for catch up…Friday flex days are the BEST!
  
  
• Plan very little during the last week of a unit so you can use the last week as a catch-up flex week
  
  
• Don’t let your planning get out of control. Resist the urge to overplan. Don’t over-purchase supplies and feel trapped. Be thoughtful.
  
  
• Recognize your plan for what it is – a flexible framework to guide your homeschool.

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