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A first homeschool week, planned in three questions
Published 2026-09-30
The hardest week of homeschooling is often the first one. You have decided to try it, you have read about curricula and schedules, and now it is Sunday night and Monday needs a plan. MyEdora's answer is to ask three questions and put a week in front of you, so you start from something real and adjust it, rather than starting from a blank page. This post explains what the three questions are, how the week is picked, and what you can change.
The three questions
When you set up MyEdora, Edora, the assistant for parents, asks for three things: your child's first name, their grade, and up to two things they love. The grade runs from Pre-K to Grade 8. The loves are words like Animals, Space and the sky, Building and making, Maps or In the kitchen, and you only see the ones your child's grade has activities for.
You can try this before making an account. The Try a week section on the home page asks for the grade and the loves, without the name, and shows you the week straight away.
How the week is picked
The week is five activities, one for each of the next five weekdays, starting today if today is a weekday. They are picked by rules, not by a guess. Activities your child's grade can play come first when they match one of the loves, with the two loves taking turns. Then come the activities that make a good first one for that grade. No activity appears twice, and no subject appears more than twice, so a child who loves animals still gets a little maths and a little geography.
Every card says why it was picked: *Picked for Animals*, or *A good first one for Grade 2*. You never have to wonder where a suggestion came from.
What a week can look like
For a child in Grade 2 who loves Plants and gardens and Building and making, a week might hold Grow it, a real bean on the windowsill and a daily look at what changed; Lemonade stand, where your child runs the stand and gives change like a shopkeeper; Me on the map, from their room out to the planet; and Magnet hunt, a real magnet, a hunt round the house and a rule to discover. Many of these happen away from the screen, at the table, in the garden or around the house.
Swap anything, then save
If a card does not suit your week, press Swap and the next activity that fits the same rules takes its place. When you are happy, press Save, and only then is anything written: the week goes onto your child's plan, one activity per day. The two loves are used to pick the week and are not kept as information about your child.
From there the week is yours. Move a day, drop one, or add something of your own, like a trip to the library or baking on Friday. Each activity page says what your child practises, what to listen for and what your part is, so you do not need a teaching background to run it.
Why start this way
A plan you can change is easier to start with than an empty calendar, and a plan built around what your child already loves is easier to keep. Research on play with a little adult guidance has found it helps young children learn early maths and language better than either free play or direct teaching alone, and most MyEdora activities are built that way: a real thing to do, with a clear part for the grown-up.
To see how the rest of the week fits together, read How it works, or the guide to a homeschool weekly schedule. MyEdora is free, with no ads.