Post by Charity on Jan 12, 2006 23:11:39 GMT -5
Rejuvenate Your Home School
1. Review
Take a look at the big picture.
__ Check to see if you are doing the things that are most
important to your family.
• Review (or write) your family's mission statement --
a declaration of your family's purpose in a simple
sentence or paragraph which even a child can understand.
www.teachinghome.com/newsletters/vol_2-no_80.cfm.
__ Ask yourself, your spouse, each person of your family, and
the Lord:
• What is working well?
• What needs to be changed or cut out?
• What needs to be added?
__ Thank the Lord for His provision, blessings, and answered
prayer.
Rejuvenate Your Home School
2. Recommit
Make sure your first commitment is to the Lord.
__ Pray for your child's early, but clearly understood and
meaningful, salvation and commitment to the Lord.
__ Read God's Word
In just five minutes per day you can read the entire
New Testament through in a year, or read the entire Bible
in only 20 minutes per day.
We at The Teaching Home have designed a unique Bible
reading schedule with the following features:
• Start anytime.
• Read 6 days a week, 4 weeks a month (24 days a month).
This gives you catch-up days to stay on schedule.
• Readings are divided into three selections:
The Complete Bible (minus Psalms and Proverbs)
Psalms and Proverbs
The New Testament
• These selections may be combined in different ways for
family and/or private reading.
www.teachinghome.com/supplement/bible/index.cfm
__ Guide Spiritual Growth
Help your family grow spiritually in love and
dedication to the Lord by:
• Regular and thoughtful Bible reading, memorization, and
review.
• Loving dedication and obedience to God.
• Knowing God and speaking to Him in prayer.
• Christian fellowship.
• Ministry to others.
• Right relationships with the Lord and others.
Rejuvenate Your Home School
3. Reassess
Consider your academic goals and how best to meet them.
If you are on course, great! If you need help, try these ideas.
__ Build a Solid Foundation in the Basics
• Make the three basic skills of reading, writing, and math
your first priority until the end of your school year.
• Add history, science, and other subjects whenever your
basics are on schedule.
__ Arrange Your Classes for the Highest Efficiency
• Conserve time and effort by teaching several of your
children together in one class, e.g., history, science,
Bible, literature, and electives. Present the lessons
with explanations that enable all your children to
understand.
• Combine subjects and students for a unit study.
__ Alternate Subjects
Instead of teaching all of your subjects every day,
simplify your preparation and gain from your students' focus
by teaching fewer, but longer, classes each day. Examples:
• Each week teach language arts on two days and math on the
other three days.
• Each week teach language arts and science on two days and
math and history on the other three days.
• Study history two months, then science two months.
4. Reorganize
You can organize your time, space, and housework to make
your home run smoothly with the least amount of time and effort.
__ Manage Your Time
Tools that work for you include:
• Monthly calendar for all family activities.
• Weekly calendar for plans and activities.
• Daily schedule -- where the "rubber meets the road!"
• Lesson plan and record book to record your plans and
check off what is done or to record unplanned learning.
• Running master "to-do" list from which you assign items
to your monthly, weekly, or daily lists.
• A planner that contains all of the above in one notebook.
__ Manage Your Space
The more "stuff" you eliminate, the easier it will be
to arrange your belongings in an orderly way.
• Keep boxes or large garbage bags labeled "give away,"
"sell," and "toss." Try to put some items in these
each day and dispose of them once a week.
• Put away half of your children's toys at a time and
rotate them from time to time.
__ Manage Your Household
• Update your chore chart so everyone knows what to do and
when to do it.
• Maintain daily chores of laundry, dishes, and pick up.
• Keep meals simple, healthy, and on time.
5. Rejoice
Enjoy the Lord and your family! God's goal for us is to
have a home filled with love, joy, and peace where each member of
the family relates to others as He intends.
• Work together; chores are easier and more fun that way!
• Read aloud together.
• Set aside a "family night" each week. Play board games,
do puzzles, arts and crafts, or bake together.
• Take a walk together and talk along the way.
• Sing or play musical instruments together.
• Spend one-on-one time with each family member each day.
From the Teaching Home
1. Review
Take a look at the big picture.
__ Check to see if you are doing the things that are most
important to your family.
• Review (or write) your family's mission statement --
a declaration of your family's purpose in a simple
sentence or paragraph which even a child can understand.
www.teachinghome.com/newsletters/vol_2-no_80.cfm.
__ Ask yourself, your spouse, each person of your family, and
the Lord:
• What is working well?
• What needs to be changed or cut out?
• What needs to be added?
__ Thank the Lord for His provision, blessings, and answered
prayer.
Rejuvenate Your Home School
2. Recommit
Make sure your first commitment is to the Lord.
__ Pray for your child's early, but clearly understood and
meaningful, salvation and commitment to the Lord.
__ Read God's Word
In just five minutes per day you can read the entire
New Testament through in a year, or read the entire Bible
in only 20 minutes per day.
We at The Teaching Home have designed a unique Bible
reading schedule with the following features:
• Start anytime.
• Read 6 days a week, 4 weeks a month (24 days a month).
This gives you catch-up days to stay on schedule.
• Readings are divided into three selections:
The Complete Bible (minus Psalms and Proverbs)
Psalms and Proverbs
The New Testament
• These selections may be combined in different ways for
family and/or private reading.
www.teachinghome.com/supplement/bible/index.cfm
__ Guide Spiritual Growth
Help your family grow spiritually in love and
dedication to the Lord by:
• Regular and thoughtful Bible reading, memorization, and
review.
• Loving dedication and obedience to God.
• Knowing God and speaking to Him in prayer.
• Christian fellowship.
• Ministry to others.
• Right relationships with the Lord and others.
Rejuvenate Your Home School
3. Reassess
Consider your academic goals and how best to meet them.
If you are on course, great! If you need help, try these ideas.
__ Build a Solid Foundation in the Basics
• Make the three basic skills of reading, writing, and math
your first priority until the end of your school year.
• Add history, science, and other subjects whenever your
basics are on schedule.
__ Arrange Your Classes for the Highest Efficiency
• Conserve time and effort by teaching several of your
children together in one class, e.g., history, science,
Bible, literature, and electives. Present the lessons
with explanations that enable all your children to
understand.
• Combine subjects and students for a unit study.
__ Alternate Subjects
Instead of teaching all of your subjects every day,
simplify your preparation and gain from your students' focus
by teaching fewer, but longer, classes each day. Examples:
• Each week teach language arts on two days and math on the
other three days.
• Each week teach language arts and science on two days and
math and history on the other three days.
• Study history two months, then science two months.
4. Reorganize
You can organize your time, space, and housework to make
your home run smoothly with the least amount of time and effort.
__ Manage Your Time
Tools that work for you include:
• Monthly calendar for all family activities.
• Weekly calendar for plans and activities.
• Daily schedule -- where the "rubber meets the road!"
• Lesson plan and record book to record your plans and
check off what is done or to record unplanned learning.
• Running master "to-do" list from which you assign items
to your monthly, weekly, or daily lists.
• A planner that contains all of the above in one notebook.
__ Manage Your Space
The more "stuff" you eliminate, the easier it will be
to arrange your belongings in an orderly way.
• Keep boxes or large garbage bags labeled "give away,"
"sell," and "toss." Try to put some items in these
each day and dispose of them once a week.
• Put away half of your children's toys at a time and
rotate them from time to time.
__ Manage Your Household
• Update your chore chart so everyone knows what to do and
when to do it.
• Maintain daily chores of laundry, dishes, and pick up.
• Keep meals simple, healthy, and on time.
5. Rejoice
Enjoy the Lord and your family! God's goal for us is to
have a home filled with love, joy, and peace where each member of
the family relates to others as He intends.
• Work together; chores are easier and more fun that way!
• Read aloud together.
• Set aside a "family night" each week. Play board games,
do puzzles, arts and crafts, or bake together.
• Take a walk together and talk along the way.
• Sing or play musical instruments together.
• Spend one-on-one time with each family member each day.
From the Teaching Home