January 26, 2010
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Issue #35 - January 2010
Best Homeschool Plan for 2010
The school year has just kicked off … and your goals are set – right?
Are they?
Some of you might be organized, structured, planners with every detail of your life recorded in black and white with specific goals set out for the year, others might be of the more 'flexible' personality-types, who shun schedules and who just 'wing' it with a general end-point in sight.
Neither one is right or wrong, in fact, the middle of that continuum is probably the best place to be. The bottom line is, as they say, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”
Recommendations
Do you have any sort of vision of where you want to be 2, 5 or even 10 years down the line?
Have you thought about the high school years?
What about your day to day living – how are your children progressing in their learning disciplines?
What are you doing to shape and mould their Godly characters?
And your housekeeping? Does your family work together as a team, do your children do their chores – in fact – do you do your chores?
Are you able to eat healthy wholesome meals each day?
Can you fit in a little time each day for yourself?
Planning is the first step to help you move forward in each of these areas?
Whether you are a textbook homeschooler or an unschooler or follow any pattern in between, planning will set you free to live more victoriously.
The Ultimate Homeschool Mom's Planner by Wendy Young offers you over 130 templates to use to plan and organize your life and homeschooling.
Free Printables
To assist you with planning your year, we have a free printable school calendar including the number of weeks and days for each term of the year.
Free School Calendar 2010
More tips
We are frequently asked by moms for tips on homeschooling little ones. Many moms experience pressure from others around them - Family…or friends who choose to put their little ones into a playschool and go back to work may make you feel that you or your children are missing out.
Preschool Ideas – this article will set your mind at ease and give you ideas for training character, skills, creativity, nature study and more.
Footprints News
1. Tutor Services
We constantly receive emails, via our website, from parents seeking tutors for their children. Usually we just ignore these enquiries as this is beyond the scope of what we offer.
However, since our goal is to HELP parents to find solutions for their children's education, we have decided to create a page on our site where we list tutoring services so that we can refer these families to them.
You can view this page here: Homeschool Tutors
2. Footprints Workshop
We are hosting our annual Footprints Workshop for homeschoolers using any one of our programs. The workshop is intended to help Footprints families get the maximum benefit from their programs as well as to spend time encouraging them in their homeschool walk. The workshop is in Cape Town on Saturday, 27 February 2010.
If you are a Footprints user and would like to attend, please contact us for more information.
Till next month, we wish you every blessing
Wendy and Shirley
www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com
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