If you follow a curriculum you have a fairly good idea about what you have to cover in each subject during the year, but to have a great year of homeschooling you need more. You need fun activities that both the homeschool teacher and students enjoy. You need to inspire your homeschool students to pick up new skills that may or may not amount to much once they grow up, but help them chase their interests and passions.
Look at what you did last year and replicate the success
The best place to find out what works great in the home school classroom is in the last academic session. Think back to things that you felt were a success. It could be a project that you worked on with the children, or a movie that you used as a teaching tool, or a field trip that helped the children learn about something that they enjoyed. Write down these good experiences in a list. Now look at what you can do in the current year that builds on these activities. Make a second list according to these activities and add in new things that you feel would be fun and educational as well.
Look at what may be superfluous this year
You must make another list of activities that you did in the past that may have been no fun, had little educational value, and drained your energy with little or no returns to show. There may be certain activities or classes that you did last year which may no longer hold the interest of your homeschool students. Think of what set your children whining when you suggested the activity and you will be easily able to mark them out. Of course difficult lessons from compulsory subjects do not count in this list. What has to be done, must be done. Now ensure that you do not repeat any of these activities in the current academic session.
By weeding out the unwanted activities and adding more fun stuff you can ensure that your homeschool class is always full of positive vibrations. The homeschool students are always enthusiastic about learning something new and you get to have fun while you teach your children.
