| If you are a homeschool family, chances are you have | | | | can actually accomplish and that will only lead to feeling |
| just about stopped working on school for the summer. | | | | frustrated as we kick off next year's homeschool |
| Or, perhaps you are working on enrichment activities | | | | program. The solution to that is carefully crafting your |
| that will go on throughout the summer, but at a slower | | | | summer lesson plans now so that the goals are |
| pace. Either way, you may be forgetting an important | | | | realistic, but clearly manageable at the same time. |
| lesson plan that needs to be done for the summer | | | | It might be that with a few shifted dates or reordering |
| months. If you haven't created your summer lesson | | | | of the projects, you can get it all done, but creating a |
| plan, now is the time! | | | | homeschool and family summer lesson plan will allow |
| Summer lesson plans should include projects, either | | | | you to see what needs to be adjusted and where you |
| personal or homeschool related, as well as any unit | | | | can enlist help to do that. Homeschoolers are usually |
| studies or activities that have been planned. They | | | | very good at creating lesson plans, especially if they |
| might include vacations or homeschool conferences, | | | | have been homeschooling for awhile, but when |
| trips with family or organizational changes around the | | | | summer hits, often we throw all schedules out the |
| home. Whatever you have included when you said, | | | | window and then wonder where the summer went |
| "This summer I'd like to..." then those items need to be | | | | when August rolls around. |
| listed. Create a simple list of these projects and | | | | So now that Memorial Day picnics are over, most of |
| activities and prioritize them. Which are the most | | | | the public schools are letting out, and you are |
| important? Which will give the most value to your | | | | contemplating lazy summer days, take a few extra |
| home? Etc. | | | | steps to create your summer lesson plans. You will be |
| Once you have your summer list, you need to create | | | | surprised at how much more enjoyable the summer |
| your timeline. Using a simple calendar, note the | | | | will be. Plan into your schedule times for play and times |
| completion dates of each activity or project and "back | | | | for refreshment, but also plan out those homeschool |
| into" the steps that will need to be done, in order, to | | | | projects and activities so that you can do everything |
| reach this goal. Do you see any calendar overlaps? | | | | you hope to do over the next few months. They |
| Areas of conflict? Sometimes when we do this simple | | | | never last as long as you think they will! |
| exercise, we see that we have more planned than we | | | | |