Planning the year and scheduling your books
Set terms and breaks, plan the week, and let the planner spread each book’s lessons across your school days.
Terms, breaks and school days
- From your home base, open the planner.
- Choose Suggest terms and breaks, or add your own with + Add a term and + Add a break.
- Pick which days you school and what each day holds (or Every subject every day).
Print a month, a week or the whole year from the planner.
Each child’s own week
Children of different ages often do different things. Under Weekly schedules there’s a tab for each child, one for Everyone and one for the Shared rhythm.
- Shared rhythm is the family’s week: which subjects on which days, with no set times. A child without a schedule of their own follows it. If your family was set up before 19 October 2026, every child starts out on the shared rhythm, exactly as before; nothing changes until you give a child their own week.
- Give a child their own schedule from their tab. It starts as a copy of the shared rhythm. Then choose their school days, and for each subject the days, a start time (or none, for work done whenever it fits), the minutes and whether it’s done with me or on their own. The tab shows the weekly total and how much of it is with you.
- Go back to the shared rhythm removes that child’s own schedule. Their books and lesson schedules aren’t touched.
The Everyone view
Everyone puts every child’s week on one page, day by day, in time order, each child in their own color, with work that has no set time listed under Any time.
A conflict is two different children who both need you at the same moment: both blocks are marked with me, both have a start time and minutes, and the times overlap on the same day. The planner lists each one (for example, “Tue 9:30–9:45 am: Anna (Math) and Ben (Reading)”). Blocks with no time, work marked “on their own”, and a child following the shared rhythm (which has no times) never count as conflicts. To clear one, move a block or mark one “on their own”.
Which days count
- Breaks in the school year apply to everyone.
- A child with their own schedule does school on their own days; otherwise on the family’s days.
- Attendance is still logged on the family’s school days.
Lesson schedules
- Under Lesson schedules, choose + Add a book.
- Enter the book’s name, the child, the subject, how many lessons it has, what each is called (lesson, chapter, unit…), how many a day, where you’re starting and which days you do it.
- The planner spreads the lessons across your school days and tells you when you’ll finish, and whether that’s past your last day.
A book’s days decide where its lessons fall, in this order: the days you pick on the book itself; if none, the child’s own school days (when they have their own schedule); otherwise the family’s school days. Breaks are always skipped. A book for Everyone together uses the family’s days unless you pick its own.
Each day
Each child’s card on your home base shows Today: with that day’s lessons. Tap one when it’s done. If a day is missed, nothing is lost: the next lesson simply moves to the next school day.
If you’re in a co-op, homework its teachers assign shows on the child’s card as Co-op homework for the week ahead, in the planner under Co-op homework, and on the printed week on its due date. Tick it off in any of those places.
Attendance you keep in the planner can go into Transcripts.