Summer Lesson Plans

Summer Lesson Plans For Homeschoolers
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Camille_Rodriquez]Camille Rodriquez

If you are a homeschool family, chances are you have just about stopped working on school for the summer. Or, perhaps you are working on enrichment activities that will go on throughout the summer, but at a slower pace. Either way, you may be forgetting an important lesson plan that needs to be done for the summer months. If you haven't created your summer lesson plan, now is the time!

Summer lesson plans should include projects, either personal or homeschool related, as well as any unit studies or activities that have been planned. They might include vacations or homeschool conferences, trips with family or organizational changes around the home. Whatever you have included when you said, "This summer I'd like to..." then those items need to be listed. Create a simple list of these projects and activities and prioritize them. Which are the most important? Which will give the most value to your home? Etc.

Once you have your summer list, you need to create your timeline. Using a simple calendar, note the completion dates of each activity or project and "back into" the steps that will need to be done, in order, to reach this goal. Do you see any calendar overlaps? Areas of conflict? Sometimes when we do this simple exercise, we see that we have more planned than we can actually accomplish and that will only lead to feeling frustrated as we kick off next year's homeschool program. The solution to that is carefully crafting your summer lesson plans now so that the goals are realistic, but clearly manageable at the same time.

It might be that with a few shifted dates or reordering of the projects, you can get it all done, but creating a homeschool and family summer lesson plan will allow you to see what needs to be adjusted and where you can enlist help to do that. Homeschoolers are usually very good at creating lesson plans, especially if they have been homeschooling for awhile, but when summer hits, often we throw all schedules out the window and then wonder where the summer went when August rolls around.

So now that Memorial Day picnics are over, most of the public schools are letting out, and you are contemplating lazy summer days, take a few extra steps to create your summer lesson plans. You will be surprised at how much more enjoyable the summer will be. Plan into your schedule times for play and times for refreshment, but also plan out those homeschool projects and activities so that you can do everything you hope to do over the next few months. They never last as long as you think they will!

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