What is a homeschool loop schedule? A homeschool loop schedule is a way to keep track of doing alternating subjects or activities on different days, like setting your homeschool on a flexible loop cycle.
Simplify Your Homeschool with a Loop Schedule
Loop scheduling can be a simple way to rotate through your subjects that you don’t do everyday.
I found the simple concept of scheduling and I knew it would be perfect for our homeschool style.
Check out my post about our Homeschool Daily Schedule here. I share about how to arrange your day, what is important to keep in mind when homeschool planning, and more ideas.
Not being a fan of rigid or precise planning of our school subjects, I knew that just a simple collection of subjects/activities that I wanted to get to with some regularity would be just the ticket.
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What is the Benefit of a Loop Schedule?
We homeschool parents have a lot of educational aspirations and things we want to get to rolling around in our heads.
I find it very hard to keep track of everything I want to touch on each week or month, and a loop schedule is such a great way for a visual person to keep on track.
A homeschool loop schedule is a bit like a menu.
You can see what the options are, see what is the most important topics to get to that day, and select other options to add in.
What Subjects Should You Loop Schedule?
Doing your “3 Rs: every school day is pretty important. Keeping up with the reading, ‘riting and “rithmetic (for people who don’t speak country that would be reading, writing and arithmetic, haha!) keeps those important skills fresh and flowing. We also want to do Bible everyday at our house.
But as far as some other subjects, they don’t necessarily need to be done every day.
Here are some examples of possible homeschool loop subjects:
History
Science
Geography
Art
Music
Of course, this all depends on your personal preferences. Some may with to study certain subjects every school day. But I’ve found that we simply don’t have the time of frankly, the desire to push through everything everyday.
Here are examples of other things to put on a homeschool loop schedule:
Poetry Tea Time
Nature Walks
Handcrafts
Themed Study Units
Writing Projects
Hymn Study/Composer Study
Typing
Life Skills work
Educational Games
Craft Time
Health Studies
Book Club
Co-op Classes
Socializing/Play dates
Drawing
An Example of a Loop Schedule:
Above, you can see an example of our current loop homeschooling loop schedule. (Key word is current. I change this anytime I feel a need to modify, or subtract/add.)
It is just an example, we all have to experiment and do what works with the children we are educating and with the flow of our home life.
I don’t always stick to the days next to each topic, sometimes we do different loops if we feel like it.
And even now, I think I will be changing history to about 4 times a week instead of on a loop.
We have found we really enjoy it, and I would rather do 15-20 minutes a day, than to try to do a really long session once a week.
Free Printable Homeschool Loop Schedule Charts
Please download these loop schedule and daily rhythm charts and make them your own!
You can customize them by filling them in in whichever ways makes sense to your schedule!
Link to these freebies is at the bottom of the post.
Directions for using the homeschool schedule and loop charts:
- Print in either color or black and white. (b&w looks cute too!)
- Laminate the sheets to make them reusable and erasable. Here is the laminator I have, I love it!
- Write on the charts with a black Sharpie permanant marker! Don’t worry, it is erasable with a Magic Eraser sponge, cool right?! That way, you aren’t always accidentally erasing and smudging your schedule!
- Modify them as you go along! You don’t work for the schedule, the schedule works for you.
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Hello! I love this idea, I just wanted to clarify; are you pulling one thing per list each day? So Monday for instance would be a +2 of History and Arts/crafts?
Yes, exactly! Of course, you can set up any system you want for your loop and do what works best week by week! But yes, my example is pulling 2 loop subjects per day to add to the everyday day subjects. Thanks for being here! 🙂
Oh my goodness thank you so much for sharing this beautiful printable loop schedule! I literally just opened up my pinterest account and it was exactly what I was looking for. THANKS again from one homeschool mama to the next!
I am thrilled it is helpful to you! Thank you for taking the time to let me know, you made my day!