Traditional school begins in the morning and most teachers want the children to learn new topics while their minds are fresh. That’s why the heavy learning subjects tend to be taught in the first half before recess and the lighter and more physically demanding subjects tend to congest the second half of the school day in traditional schools. Is this the best way to organize your home school schedule? Not always. In fact most home schooling parents tend to differ when it comes to fixing their schedule. No two families will follow the same home school schedule.
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The biggest advantage you have when you homeschool your child is the fact that you get to decide what to teach, when to teach it and how to teach it. This means that the home school schedule is open to your interpretation of best for your child. What works best for you is the schedule you should follow. This means that blinding aping traditional school and teaching them lessons at the crack of dawn may not always be the right solution.You need to just plan out your schedule in advance to know how much you need to cover each day to finish covering the full portion of each grade that you are teaching.
It can get specially tricky when you need to run two parallel schedules for children who are in different grade levels. In case you are teaching two children who are not too far apart in grade level it is still possible for you to overlap topics so that the basics can get covered and revised without additional work for yourself as the teacher. This way you get to cover the topic and save time on the schedule as well. Another thing that you need to factor in to the home school schedule is the fact that when you are teaching your children at different grade levels, they will have different levels of concentration. So make sure that you are ready to let the younger one off the hook with another gainful activity as you continue to explore the topic in depth with the elder one.
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