For a parent new to homeschooling, it can be a daunting task to come up with the schedule for the entire year for your homeschool students. Here are some tips that will make it easier to work out your thoughts and organize your activities, at least on paper before the academic year begins. Then you may never get back on the schedule (just kidding…mostly)
The Year’s Schedule
What you must have
A complete overview of the syllabus that the homeschool student needs to complete in the academic session. Remember some states have a requirement for a certain number of hours of schooling. This is a good place to schedule them.
What you may forget to add
Holidays on the regular calendar will go on the schedule, just as well as family trips planned at any time during the year. Remember that not all weeks will be about books and the homeschool classroom.
The Monthly Schedule
What you must have
Any monthly schedule should be sectioned out from the yearly schedule. For instance if you need to cover ten topics in a subject in a year, you may like to schedule one topic for each month. Do remember that you may not always run true to schedule and having extra days at the end of the year is a boon.
What you may forget to add
Your field trips need to be planned for each month. Very often these trips are taken with great spontaneity, but the learning planned from these trips needs to be chalked out in advance in the schedule.
The Weekly Schedule
What you must have
It’s easier to work on a “week at a glance” kind of page. Here you can easily juggle what didn’t get done yesterday, to fit into today’s schedule. This is one of the easier schedules to make as you are already used to regular school weekly time tables.
What you may forget to add
Ensure breaks and play time each week. You may not do the same thing each day, but rest from studies is a must in some form or the other for your homeschool students. This keeps the classroom from becoming a boring place.
