Homeschool Schedule
A good calendar is an ingredient not to be forgotten as part of your overall homeschool schedule and homeschool lesson plan.
After taking a high level look at your home school calendar integrated with your family calendar, you may decide that the traditional school year calendar of end of summer through early spring may not be the most advantageous.
There is no stringent time schedule that you must adhere to as is the case in public schools.
As with your home school lesson planning, your scheduling should take into careful consideration your child’s learning style and determine what will work best. If vacations aren’t a part of your plans, there are probably other reasons (such as birthdays) for tailor making your own home school calendar.
While mapping a home school yearly schedule is an excellent idea, remember to allow for flexibility in the schedule. Any school year, especially since the school year is taking place also centered around your home and your family, will have the need for unforeseen breaks and absences.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Homeschoing Curriculum
Homeschool Curriculum - Do I Need It?
Homeschool curriculum and books are plentiful. Do you really need to purchase a home school curriculum or can you save some money and home school with books alone? Here are some thoughts that can help you make your decision:
1. You need a core plan - Whether you purchase a home school curriculum or develop your own, you need to know what you want to accomplish.
2. Focus on reading, writing and arithmetic - Any good home school program focuses on the basics.
3. Know how you and your child learn best - Learning style plays a key role in how you and your children will learn. In public school teachers can’t really teach based on learning style because of the volume of students they have to work with. If you don’t know yours or your child’s learning style you can take an assessment online and find out. http://www.hjresources.com/hsrecommend Then when you decide to choose curriculum or books you will know what types of resources you need.
4. Use your resources - In the early days of home schooling there wasn’t much available to parents.
5. Do you use a curriculum to learn something yourself? Do you buy a curriculum to learn or do you read books, listen to audio and watch videos? Your children need to see you have a love for learning.
Homeschool curriculum and books are plentiful. Do you really need to purchase a home school curriculum or can you save some money and home school with books alone? Here are some thoughts that can help you make your decision:
1. You need a core plan - Whether you purchase a home school curriculum or develop your own, you need to know what you want to accomplish.
2. Focus on reading, writing and arithmetic - Any good home school program focuses on the basics.
3. Know how you and your child learn best - Learning style plays a key role in how you and your children will learn. In public school teachers can’t really teach based on learning style because of the volume of students they have to work with. If you don’t know yours or your child’s learning style you can take an assessment online and find out. http://www.hjresources.com/hsrecommend Then when you decide to choose curriculum or books you will know what types of resources you need.
4. Use your resources - In the early days of home schooling there wasn’t much available to parents.
5. Do you use a curriculum to learn something yourself? Do you buy a curriculum to learn or do you read books, listen to audio and watch videos? Your children need to see you have a love for learning.
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