Being organized is the key to making the homeschool classes interesting and informative. A large onus lies on the homeschooling parent to provide the child with activities that will challenge him and help him learn new concepts. This is not something that can happen overnight. The parent needs to plan out classes in a sequence for the learning to be steady and consistent. To this end having a lesson plan book for your homeschool classes can be a major help.
Use a normal notebook or copy paper
There is no need to pick up a formal teacher’s plan book, you can make one for yourself at home using a regular notebook or even loose sheets of copy paper. Just draw out the columns for each day of the week per subject and jot down your lesson plan in them. Do make sure that you leave enough place to write down everything in the columns. And remember you need to have no columns for Saturday and Sunday. Its just for the school days.
Record written and oral activities for each lesson in the book
Ensure that you write each activity that you have planned to conduct in the lesson plan book. Very often you may miss out on doing something in the class, especially in terms of an oral game or activity, for the simple reason that you forgot to note it down in the lesson plan. The lesson descriptions need to have it all in detail. Look for activities that complement the lesson being taught in the study material that you have and even in online forums.
Work one month in advance in your lesson plan book
So that you do not suddenly run out of lesson plans keep adding to the book keeping it at a stage where it has records for lessons to be conducted one month in advance. It would be ideal to add to the lesson plan book one week at a time on each weekend so that you don’t lose your month long lead. Try and do this at a time when your children are otherwise gainfully occupied and you are mentally relaxed.
Article Inspiration: About Homeschooling
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