A fresh year, a fresh start. New ways to keep your homeschool students engaged and learning. As the homeschool children get back to their classroom in the new year, here are some activities that the homeschooling parent may like to consider.
Do More Hands-on Stuff
Get the homeschool student off their bums and working with their hands. This could mean doing more practical experiments, helping more around the more in regular chores, and even heading outdoors despite the weather being what it is. The idea is to ensure that they do less sitting, more walking and maybe even some running and playing. Just pick up any activity that interests your homeschooling family and run with it. The activity does not have to stay the same each week. Switch around stuff everyone enjoys. Ask the children for suggestions if you run out of stuff to do.
Start a Community Service Project
Teaching your homeschool students to give back to society can not start too soon. Think of what your immediate neighborhood could benefit from? Something small that even your children would be able to do. Set it up as a community service project with a couple of supportive neighbors whose kids can also get involved. Lead by example, so that your homeschool students see just how rewarding it can be to serve selflessly. It will reinforce many positive traits in their characters including the value of unity in action and love for their fellow man.
Focus on Specific Character Traits Per Homeschool Student
Think a bit about what each homeschool student could do better with. Can someone learn to be more economical in their purchases? How about teaching someone more humility in actions and words? Perhaps another child could do with some confidence boosting. Maybe someone needs to work on patience and diligence? The homeschool parent can pick up a single character trait for each child and design some activity to help them improve this trait. A little out of the box thinking in a creative manner will allow you to come up with many interesting ways to teach your children.