What does each day of the week require of you and your family? The best thing you can do to plan your homeschool week is to build systems around your routines. Each family has routines, or things that you do daily or weekly. Here’s a few examples of some routines you may have in your family:
- Daily schooling
- Music lessons
- Sporting activities
- Family fun outings
- Field trips
- Library visits
- Outdoor activities
- Movie night
- Church activities
- Service project
So, how can you group these activities together to best benefit you and your family? By grouping “like activities” together. If you have a routine of going to the grocery store each Monday, could you also build a quick trip to the library around that? Or, if you have a child that has music lesson each Thursday, could you plan to run errands afterwards?
Adding this approach to your homeschool will help you to stay organized. Here’s some examples of how this will look:
- Each Wednesday, your child has karate lessons. So on Wednesdays during homeschool, you’ll study health, fitness and nutrition. This will be something you study once a week.
- You decide only to school four days per week, leaving Friday’s open. Could Friday’s be your scheduled day for weekly field trips? Or errands and doctor visits? Maybe you could leave Friday night blocked out for a family movie about a genre in school you have been studying, giving your children something to look forward to.
- Pick two or three days a week you’ll learn an additional life skill: finances, typing, yoga, stress management, etc…
- List out all additional subjects, aside from the core subjects that you’d like your family to study. Then assign them each a day of the week. There’s no wrong way to do this. Maybe you’d like to study history twice a week, but science and art only once a week. Write this down on your weekly plan.
Your Homework
What’s a homeschool blog without a little homework?
- Write down the days of the week, and underneath each day, write the assigned topics of study you will learn about on that day.
- Write down a list of each child’s activities outside of the home, and then assign them to their day on your weekly list.
- How can you group “like activities” together?
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