| Students can be taught in many different ways, | | | | natural beauty. It will help enrich the child's |
| but the public schools follow the textbook | | | | knowledge and provide good food for imagination. |
| teaching pattern only. When you decide that this | | | | Kids will ask questions about the things they |
| is not enough and home schooling is better for | | | | observe. This is surely a good way to learn new |
| your children you have many things that you | | | | things; one leading to another. If your child is |
| need to consider. After proper research, you can | | | | inquisitive about anything, encourage him to |
| decide the right curriculum for your child. One you | | | | develop an understanding by observation and |
| are through with this, an important exercise you | | | | reading and put it down in words. In a way you |
| have to follow is making a home school lesson | | | | are developing the reading and writing skills. |
| plan. There cannot be one specific plan that one | | | | There are some lesson plan books available at the |
| can prescribe. | | | | stores and even online. You can buy them or print |
| Some states may or may not allow you to make | | | | them to plan the activities. Take a pencil and put |
| a home schooling plan. Check if you can make the | | | | down the plan on paper, you may revise it any |
| plan and then go ahead. With the curriculum in | | | | number of times trough the week as the week |
| hand some of you may prefer to make a plan | | | | progresses. Initially, it may not go perfectly to the |
| for the year first and break it down to the | | | | plan, but as you move ahead systematically things |
| weekly plan. You may well involve your child in | | | | will start falling in place. You can have worksheets |
| preparing the plan. As home schooling is different | | | | planned, printed or online; whichever you and the |
| from the traditional schooling way, you have the | | | | child find easier and simpler. |
| flexibility to set the timings and not follow the | | | | There are various methods followed by various |
| regular school pattern. The plan should be | | | | people like Unschooling, Montessori and Unit Study |
| comfortable for you and the child. You need not | | | | and so on. Parents who believe in the philosophy |
| wake up very early for the lessons. However, | | | | of unschooling believe that learning should come |
| remember that discipline is necessary. | | | | from everyday life. Kids learn from observing |
| While planning, you should have an idea of the | | | | around. These are useful in areas like cooking, |
| subject you would be teaching through the week. | | | | nature walks etc; you never know, you may |
| This is useful, as you have to make a report | | | | teach to count measure while cooking or when |
| about the progress of the child. You can have an | | | | you go shopping- teach the concept of cost |
| outdoor activity planned. Such activities help break | | | | comparison and other things. |
| the monotony of textbook learning. When it | | | | Many parents combine all these different |
| comes to historical or geographical topics you can | | | | methodologies to develop a style of their own. |
| make them interesting to understand and | | | | There can be no one way to suggest and you will |
| remember by visiting these places or museums | | | | grow into the methods as things progress, to fit |
| and so on. | | | | the child's needs. Planning is very relevant in any |
| If you want to teach about plants you may take | | | | activity you do, including home schooling. |
| them to the parks or some other places of | | | | |