How Many Homeschool
Activities
At first we panic
when we begin trying to come up with enough homeschool activities
to fill our lesson plan.
We research, we seek,
we find, we accumulate..... and finally we overload
our calendar. Do you sometimes look at your
homeschool calendar and long for date that is not
completely filled?
Many of us do. And you know that you can only have
one top priority at a time. You can't have 5 top
priorities..... can you?
If so, which one do
you do first? Which one of your top priorities do you complete first for
your lesson plan?
And as you progress further into homeschooling you will no doubt soon be
reaping the rewards of all your researching and contacting by constantly
receiving all kinds of helpful materials on homeschool and preschool
activities in your mailbox. As a result, you can literally over-schedule
your day with activities. And really, it can happen without warning and
before you know it!
So early on in the hunt for homeschool activities, take it easy. Try to
curb your enthusiasm for signing up for all these very interesting
classes and field trips. As I said earlier, in the beginning it may seem
as though you have no contacts or resources, but very soon you will have
more than enough. In a word, keeping your homeschool activity schedule
simple is the best advice. Don't try to ‘make up' for all the activities
that you may think your child is missing because they are being homeschooled.
Please don't take the aforementioned thoughts as being against
activities. Not at all. Activities, field trips and such are one of the
very important advantages that we as homeschooling parents have over the
public school system. Just give yourself and your child room to breath.
Keep all of your great ideas and homeschool resources handy and readily
accessible, it that you don't have to do them all within the bound of
one homeschool year.
Keep your fingers on your (and your child's) activity pulse. Fine tune
your homeschool activities calendar, and don't let it get too crowded. Give and
take with your activities, if you add one, then drop another. You'll
soon find what works best for your situation.
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