The three of us at A Delectable Education have developed a tool to help you figure out how many lessons your children need at each level (form) and how to coordinate those with your time and their brain activity! We are delighted to offer these and hope they will help your family develop a schedule that works with your unique circumstances.
We now have Spanish Schedule Cards, Portuguese Schedule Cards, French Schedule Cards, and Russian Schedule Cards available!
(Korean cards coming soon.)
If you would prefer, you can read the transcript of this video here.
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Schedule Cards
The three of us at A Delectable Education have developed a tool to help you figure out how many lessons your children need at each level (form) and how to coordinate those […]
After downloading these files, print the separate forms (if applicable) on different colors of card stock (we used green for Form I, blue for Form II, yellow for Form III, pink for Form IV, and orange for Forms V/VI, for example) and cut them out on all the printed lines. These cards are scaled to reflect the length of lessons, so when lined up one above the other, you will see the cumulative total of time for those lessons for that day. (Monday would be a vertical column on the left, Tuesday another vertical column to the right, Wednesday, another column to the right of Tuesday, etc.) Included with each set is a “time line” to indicate the total number of hours that shouldn’t be surpassed for morning lessons in that particular form. The Info Sheet included should answer any more of your questions, but if you have others, please let us know.
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I’d love to watch this video about scheduling cards but it appears to not be working. Is it still avalible?
Have you tried using Chrome as your Browser?
The link for the video on how to use the scheduling cards says it’s expired. Can you post a new link please?
The BEST $5 I’ve spent on homeschooling materials.
I’ve used them for a year now and our mornings run smoothly, with variation and on time. We’re always finished by lunch 🙂
Thank you girls!
I do not see a foreign language, timeline, folksong or hymn card. Are these grouped in with another category? I’m a first timer with this method. I purchased form 1 cards. Thank you!
Form I students don’t do “timeline”, and that was never a separate lesson in CM’s method, rather history charts are part of the history lessons themselves. Folksongs and hymns are part of the “Singing” lessons, and foreign language is simply called “modern language 1” in the Form 1 cards. You can check out the subjects by form page on our website to see the subjects and their descriptions for each Form level here: https://www.adelectableeducation.com/form-schedules/ where you’ll find more information about what was included in the Form 1 student’s schedule. You might also find the Form 1 recap episodes helpful (Episodes 83 and 84).
Perhaps you get this question a lot…I have two children that will be in Form I next year (1st and 3rd grade). How do you approach using the scheduling cards when each child will need your individual attention for subjects like math and other subjects are done as a group together? Any tips? Thanks!
Jessica,
We do address these questions often, but I don’t mind answering you. Just know that in Q&A episodes especially, many scheduling questions are tackled and you can look up questions along that line on our Q&A page of the website.
First, see where children share a subject, and where “one on one” time is needed and can be put into slots where an older child is working independently (Copywork? Drawing? Handicrafts?). It is not necessary to have separate times for math. Just as you manage to feed a meal to multiple children simultaneously, even if they are having different foods, or get them all dressed together, your mother brain knows how to tackle a subject where each is doing slightly different things. Have a math slot, perhaps, where everyone is working together. Of course you will have to divide your time, but this will help children begin to work out things on their own, keep you from pushing them too hard too fast, and teach them how to wait, not interrupt, try things when they have to wait. Reading lessons, for example, really do need your one on one time, but the older child can be working on one of those independent lessons I mentioned above.
Liz
Where can i get more information on the different parts of the brain and body used in different lessons?
Hello, Tawny. Charlotte Mason doesn’t give a list of the different parts of the brain and body used. In fact, a common thread throughout her curriculum is that we never see just one faculty used at a time. What she does say is, “and if the lessons be judiciously alternated––sums first, say, while the brain is quite fresh; then writing, or reading––some more or less mechanical exercise, by way of a rest; and so on, the program varying a little from day to day, but the same principle throughout––a ‘thinking’ lesson first, and a ‘painstaking’ lesson to follow,––the child gets through his morning lessons without any sign of weariness.” This is from her first book, Home Education, where she addresses the “home schoolroom managed on sound principles.” I hope that helps. ~Nicole
I would love to purchase these, but I can only do it through pay pal. Are there any other options?
Hi, Brittany. Through PayPal you can just use a credit card without logging in. ~Nicole
Thank you so much for these scheduling cards! They’re super helpful. I just have one question. This is my first year fully implementing CM and I bought the Form II cards. I only have one child (a 10 year old girl) and we live in an apartment building in NYC so I’m unsure about what to do with the 15 minute “play” portion. Do you have any suggestions?
We are glad the cards are helping you to form a timetable for your week. I suggest that you do in that 15 minutes what she does with her free time normally. I am sure there are many things she likes to do to relax and just kick up her heels.
Got it! Thanks.
Hi, Would these cards work in tandom with Ambleside Online? I will have a first and third grader this year. Thank you!
Megan,
The cards are a just proportion of subjects in frequency and length
based on Miss Mason’s own recommendations at each form level. Tailor
your curriculum to the short lesson quantities she recommended, not
the time to any predetermined curriculum you might choose. We go by
the clock, not by the pages, problems, chapters, etc.
Liz
I just ordered a set of scheduling cards for Form 1. Math does not have a + sign on the left edge like they do in the demo. Should they have one? I see – signs and @ symbols for some subjects though.
Thanks!
Not for Form 1–there are no other lessons using the same brain activity as math so no need for a symbol at this level 🙂
I thought there was an option for buying all the cards for $20? I don’t see it anymore 🙁
No, I’m sorry–we’ve never had that as an option for the digital product. For a short time, when we first started selling the cards, we did a specially scaled bundle of all 5 Forms for that price, but it was only in person sales, for the physical cards.
Is there a non-digital version? I feel like I’m loosing my mind…I could have sworn there was a package deal when I was looking on Black Friday but since they weren’t on sale, I didn’t buy at the time. But it’s always been digital?
Has the video ever worked for anyone? I can click arrows and the page changes, however there is no audio or explanation. There is simply a picture of the card.
SOmeone had the same problem above and they recommended using Google Chrome. It worked for me while using Chrome.
I’m so excited to use these, I’ll be starting with my 1st grade son. My question is about the reading card. If he has already learned to read, it says to drop this lesson and have him read aloud from another book. Do I add that time (10 minutes, 5x per week) into another lesson? Any one in particular? Does that mean that one of our living books must be at his reading level?
Thank you for this resource and for helping a newbie 🙂
Jessica,
Those cards truly are an awesome tool for getting a schedule organized to smoothe out the school mornings. The ten minutes should happen within a scheduled lesson time–geography, natural history, biography, literature–any of them and as his reading confidence grows, as many of different subjects as you can. He should read out loud to you, perhaps at first sharing the reading–he reads a little, you read more, and back to him. Several, many of his living books should be at his level, appropriate for the subject, and not just any book he could read. Biographies abound at entry-level reading levels, special studies books for natural history, simple poems…
Liz
What does @ means in form-1?
Also is there any reason missing + symbol in Math card?
Hi Joyce,
The symbols don’t exactly have a translation–they instead refer to like brain activities (all subjects use multiple brain activities, but these symbols are used to designate similar subjects to avoid brain fatigue). The math card in Form 1 doesn’t have the symbol that upper forms math lessons do because there is no comparable brain activity subject in Form 1, thus math can be placed next to any other lesson as desired.
I’ve just printed off the Form 1 Scheduling cards and am excited to start using them. I have twins so am curious as to whether you have addressed the question before of scheduling lessons with twins? I feel they may need one-to-one time with Reading at least, perhaps Maths as they already show varying abilities with these but as they’re my first children I’m unsure whether to try to schedule these things separately for them, what to schedule the other one to be doing, or whether I can just do them at the same time. Has this question been addressed in a Q&A? I couldn’t find the aforementioned Q&A section of the website.
Thanks so much for all the time and expertise you put into encouraging and insiring us to use CMs wonderful methods!
Anna
Anna,
We have consulted with many moms of twins, or two children in the same grade. I’m not sure, either, whether we have ever addressed this on a podcast. I would proceed with them together. This week’s podcast on math may help with that subject. Several moms teach simultaneous reading lessons with children of different abilities. Often the weaker student is helped by the stronger one. I think that with Miss Mason’s approach to reading, it is possible. Alternately, you could flip-flop copywork or handicraft lessons on some days to allow one on one instruction with each child.
Liz
I originally purchased these at Sabbath Mood. If I go to reprint from my purchase history will they be the updated cards?
Just a quick question about the natural history cards. I have a daughter in Form 4 and there seems to be a lot of natural history in the schedule. Is this scheduled time all intended to be reading? Are unscheduled afternoon outdoor nature walks in addition to this time or would some of those natural history blocks be outdoors time? Thanks for your excellent resource.
Ingrid
For the life of me, I cannot find where to purchase/download the scheduling cards in English. I don’t speak Spanish, Russian, French, or Portugese.
Why can’t I find these in English?
We’ve rearranged our menus and the Schedule Cards are available here: https://www.adelectableeducation.com/downloads/scheduling-cards/
We apologize for the confusion!
No matter how I open this page, it says no downloads found. I’ve tried safari and google chrome and I really would love these cards!
I love the schedule cards. However, they are so tiny. I am low vision and need larger print. Have you considered making the cards bigger for the sake of those with low vision.
We used to have them twice the size and had many complaints about how hard it was to organize multiple Forms/students. You can set your printer to enlarge them to a bigger size to make them easier for you to see.
I’ve used the Form I cards for two years now and I just noticed that the Poetry cards say “5x per day, 5 minutes”, is that a typo and it’s supposed to say “per week” or am I supposed to be doing poetry 5x a day?