Home Shooling Program

Scheduling & Planning Home Shooling Program

It is possible that the biggest hardship that a homeschooling parent faces is how to make a schedule for home schooling program .
 
What your Goals Should be:

You should first make a goal plan that lists the goals that you have set for your child's upcoming year as part of the home schooling program. From your goals lists you will want to fill out a curriculum planner. Avoid curriculum fairs until you have done this already and have gotten the hang of it. When you are at the curriculum fair you will need to have your goal lists and your curriculum planner handy so that when you are at the fair you do not buy anything that you do not need.
 
The Course of Study for the home schooling program

In order to make the course of study you should, you will need to have your goal sheets handy and the books that you will be using close at hand. All you have to do is get a sheet of paper and make an overall plan for the home schooling program that lists the subjects, the books or supplies, and about how many times a week that you think that particular subject will be studied or how many times a week the book will be used.

You can even try to estimate how much time you think each subject will need. Once you have done this, you will have an overall look at what you have and if anything are missing.

Math

Math, for one, should not be planned too far ahead. Fortunately, there's no problem with scheduling math, because almost all math curriculums are pretty much laid out for you in your math kits which you can buy as part of the home schooling resources.
 

Grammar

You will want to plan grammar the way you would plan math for your home schooling program; meaning a little at a time, perhaps a week or two ahead and in pencil. Some grammar programs are easy to plan for, whereas others are not. Daily Grams, for example has 180 lessons in it.

Spelling

Spelling books are most commonly laid out for you and all your child will do is a lesson a day for four days and then he/she will do a test on the 5th day. If you use Natural Speller or Spelling Power, you will need to make plans for the spelling lessons as part of your home schooling program

Vocabulary

Studying words is a very good use of your child's time. There are many excellent curriculums for home schooling programs that will make this easy for you. Plan to do vocabulary at least 2 or 3 times a week.

Dictation

Dictation is a wonderful tool that homeschooling parents use for learning language. What it does is it mixes handwriting, spelling, grammar, punctuation, proof-reading, listening, and anything else that has to do with the language arts. You must always use high quality literature for your dictation so that your child will be exposed to good examples of writing as well as building a higher vocabulary in use as part of your home schooling program.

Reading

Reading out loud should be a daily activity as well as reading quietly to yourself. Of course, during the school years, reading includes phonics instruction and learning the alphabet. Later on your child will read as a means of getting information, for textbook reading and reading for pleasure. So include good reading materials as part of your home schooling program.

Writing

If you are using a writing curriculum such as Writing Strands, Easy Writing, Wordsmith, etc. you are going to have to decide how many times a week that you are going to have a writing class and make your choices from there. Avoid over scheduling for writing because some children may need extra days for their lessons. Factor this in your home school program

Handwriting

When your child is learning the alphabet it would be a good idea to also impress how necessary it is for him to form the letters well. This would likely add up to a short 5 minute class that doesn't pressure the child. There are a lot of good handwriting programs that you can get from libraries, bookstores, and online. All you have to do is decide which one to use and then stick with it.

Make sure that you go gentle with the criticism of your child's writing. You must remember that there's a lot of time for your child to practice and become better at handwriting. I would recommend short classes. Fifteen minutes should be the most amount of time spent daily on handwriting in your home schooling program.