How to Make a Lesson Plan for Homeschooling

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Linda Wooldridge and I'm a home school mom. One of the hardest things for me is to figure out how to design my lesson plan. If you are struggling with this too here are a couple of tips. First of all save yourself some time and buy a curriculum that has the lesson plan with it then you know exactly how much you are supposed to accomplish every day but if you can't afford a program like that or if you just don't find one that you like try and find home school friendly curriculum. For example this math book of my daughter's has one lesson per week and each day she does one page. That's real easy for me. If it's Monday she is supposed to be doing page A, if it is Friday she is supposed to be doing page E. The more using friendly curricula you get the easier the lesson plans are to decide. Now if you use a public school textbook then you have to figure out how to divide this book up into the number of lessons you want and if it doesn't come with an answer guide you are going to need to do the research to find the answers to all the questions in it. Also if you use something from the library or any other location like that and it doesn't come with the teacher's guide you will need to figure out exactly how much constitutes a day lesson for you but it is entirely doable. The bottom line is you are either going to spend the money or the time it's your choice. When you write out your lesson plan make sure that you list exactly what you did each day and be sure to date it. You might need that information later on and it is really hard to remember what you did two months ago. Make sure that you keep track of what you actually did not what you wanted to do because very rarely do our days go exactly as we want them to. So get a notebook, write it down, create your own lesson plan or buy one already made. It's entirely up to you. I'm Linda Wooldridge, have a great home school day."