| When you are ready to sit down and ponder and map | | | | child's learning style and determine what will work best. |
| out your home school schedule for the upcoming | | | | As a homeschooling family, you have the option of |
| academic year. A good calendar is an ingredient not to | | | | planning trips at other times of the year when for |
| be forgotten as part of your overall homeschool | | | | example, air fare is cheaper and the lines are shorter! If |
| schedule and homeschool lesson plan. | | | | vacations aren't a part of your plans, there are |
| Since you will be homeschooling your child, careful | | | | probably other reasons (such as birthdays) for tailor |
| thought needs to be given not only to your home | | | | making your own home school calendar. |
| school schedule, but your family schedule will need to | | | | While mapping a home school yearly schedule is an |
| be integrated into the mix as well. Also make sure that | | | | excellent idea, remember to allow for flexibility in the |
| your lesson plan coincides well with your educational | | | | schedule. Any school year, especially since the school |
| calendar. After taking a high level look at your home | | | | year is taking place also centered around your home |
| school calendar integrated with your family calendar, | | | | and your family, will have the need for unforeseen |
| you may decide that the traditional school year | | | | breaks and absences. Not to worry, just as there are |
| calendar of end of summer through early spring may | | | | unforeseen missed hours and even days in public |
| not be the most advantageous. | | | | school so will there be with your at home education. |
| Also the homeschool day does not necessarily need | | | | Just remember it may take a while to sand off the |
| to start say at 8am. There is no stringent time | | | | rough edges of your home school schedule to where |
| schedule that you must adhere to as is the case in | | | | you feel you have best optimized it. As the year goes |
| public schools. | | | | by, if you have kept good records and used your |
| As with your home school lesson planning, your | | | | lesson plan as your guide you will see that your child is |
| scheduling should take into careful consideration your | | | | indeed learning all along the way. |