No matter how hard you try, the holidays are likely to throw the schedule you have for your homeschool classroom out of kilter. While this is especially true for those who are new to homeschooling, most homeschool teachers will face this issue to some degree. This means that you need to reorganize what you will be teaching the next month to include what you have been unable to teach this month.
Since you will not be making too much progress with your homeschool students during this period of time, it can be used instead to get yourself more organized about the upcoming homeschool schedules post the holidays. Here are some things that you can do in advance to stay ahead of the game in January.
Get the Homeschool Classroom Cleaned Out
There are a number of tasks that a homeschool teacher will put off on a normal school day. Now is the time to catch up with all that cleaning up. Go shelf by shelf and check what is no longer needed in the classroom. Collect the old worksheets and discard the ones that are not going into the children’s portfolios. De-clutter and make more storage space available.
Check Materials and Furniture
Take a stock of all the arts and crafts material and see what supplies are running low. Make a list of all the stationery items that you are going to need, if possible place the order for delivery after the holidays. If the furniture needs to be cleaned out or painted, this is a good time to do so as the class is not is use. Painting the walls or wall papering is also an idea to consider.
Make Correction to Your Study Plans
The lesson plans that you may have worked on at the beginning of the year may not be working out so well now that you are actually using them. Now is a good time to remake these plans with a healthy dose of reality thrown in. Add the extra days that you didn’t give yourself to make up work that is left out from previous classes.