Mix of house chores and classroom activities always crowd the brain of a homeschool teacher. While she’s trying to get the homeschool students to conjugate their verbs, she’s also mentally sorting through the items she needs to get from the grocery store. A to-do list is a great way to keep track of all that needs to be done, be it organizing the homeschool classroom or allocating time to get the house work done.
Strategic Procrastination
By keeping an upcoming to-do list ready at all times, you can make the most of your time. Do the more urgent things soon, and leave the others for a later date. You can even organize the actions based on the time available to you. For instance when you have half an hour free you may not be able to run to the market and get your grocery shopping done, but you can definitely reorganize the books in preparation for the topics you will be teaching this month.
Keep it Portable and Accessible
Writing to-do lists is good, but not being able to find them later is terrible. It would completely defeat the purpose of this guiding tool if you can’t access it. So once you have finished writing it out, pin it to the noticeboard in your homeschool classroom. Then take a photograph of it with your smartphone, so that you can access it in the home, and when you are out running errands as well.
As Comprehensive As Possible
You can have a number of things to do which you feel silly putting up on the board. Don’t worry about it. If you need to get this done, it is important enough to be written down. In fact this is a good way to ensure that you never slip up on something as small as getting a new pair of scissors to replace the old ones, or picking up dry cleaning when you are out. Just ensure that you group like activities together so that you can club them together. Outdoor stuff, indoor stuff, classroom based, in the market, these are just a few headings that you can use.
