Free homeschool schedule maker
Put your subjects in the order they happen rather than against a clock, add a loop for everything that does not need a slot every day, and print the week. It checks the result against the hours children this age actually manage, because over-scheduling is what kills a homeschool timetable, never under-scheduling.
Free, and yours to keep. We ask for an email to send it to.
Why there are no times on it
A timetable made of clock times fails the first morning something runs long. Once you are behind at 9:40 the rest of the day reads as failure, and a schedule you feel you are failing is a schedule you stop using by October. An order does not have that problem: you do the next thing when the last thing is finished, and a slow morning makes the day shorter rather than making it a write-off.
What the loop is for
Most families have subjects that matter but do not need to happen daily: art, music, nature study, logic, geography. Put them in a loop and one comes up each day, in order. The difference from a timetable is what happens when you miss a day. A timetable creates a gap you feel you should make up. A loop simply waits, and you carry on from where you stopped.
Honest hours by age
A school day is mostly not instruction. It is lining up, transitions and crowd management. One to one at home the real numbers are much smaller: one to two focused hours in the youngest years, two to three through elementary, three to four in middle school and four to five by high school. If your seven year old is finished before lunch, nothing has gone wrong. This builder checks your heaviest day against those ranges, because the heaviest day is the one that decides whether a week is survivable.
What this produces
A one page printable weekly rhythm on US Letter, landscape, with a column per day and the subjects numbered in order. The loop is listed underneath with the honest-hours note for your child ’s age. It is the same weekly rhythm Bowerstead runs on for families using the app, which is why it is shaped this way rather than as a grid of half hours. For the longer argument, including a sample day and what to do when the schedule stops working, read our guide to building a homeschool schedule.
What we do with your email
We send you the schedule and occasional homeschool planning advice, and you can unsubscribe from any email in one click. The child name and subject names you type are used to render your PDF and are not stored on our servers. See our privacy policy for the full detail.
A printed rhythm tells you what you meant to do. The harder question, in April, is what actually happened. Bowerstead runs this same weekly rhythm and records the days against it as they go, so the year’s record writes itself instead of being reconstructed. Free for 30 days, then $9 a month or $79 a year.