Time can be a spoiler when it comes to planning your homeschool schedule. Do you feel you do not have enough time to cover all that you would like to? When you write down your homeschool goals you have a large number of activities corresponding to achieving these set goals. So what do you do when there doesn’t seem to be enough time to fit in everything in your homeschool schedule?
Pick the rocks the sand will fit
It is the big things that you need to concentrate on. Get them to deal with the main skils they need to learn in that academic session. Once these are achieved the homeschool students can continue to build on what they have picked up. Also when they need a break from the main subjects, you can bring in any number of smaller skill sets in to play in the schedule. Arts, crafts, music are just a few such time fillers that can prove very educative.
Plan Unit Studies
Only a homeschool teacher can have the flexibility required to deal with multidimensional topic covering different subjects in one class. When you do Unit Studies you pick up one topic of interest and cover everything that is related to it. For instance if you pick a country like India, you will learn in geography where it is located, you will learn in history what its past held, you will learn in travel and tourism about one of the seven wonders of the world located in the country, you will learn culture and cuisine as you explore the folk tales and snack on typical foods from the country. By using unit studies you can cover more than you ever imagined in the same time frame.
Divide up the day
Morning and Afternoon sessions in the homeschool classroom must be different. When you make an effort to cover different topics in both sessions you will not waste time dawdling over a subject or topic. You can always get back to the topic a little later when both the teacher and homeschool students are in a more relaxed state of mind for a fresh perspective.
