Creating Lesson Plans for Homeschooling
With the homeschool calendar in hand, you can begin planning what you will be doing on each of those days. With help from this article, you will be making great lesson plans in no time!
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Putting Together All the Lesson Plans for a StudentIt is a good idea to include lots of field trips, sports, music lessons, and other activities into your homeschool program. As you do so, you will need to account for these activities in your lesson plans as well. In the examples in the previous sections, you can see that a field trip has been scheduled for September 15. On that day, there are no lessons planned for Math or English. However, you would expect to have follow-up lesson plans if you were going to have student's write a report on the experience; or, you might have them do preparation work before the field trip, such as reading about some of the processes used in a factory you will be visiting. In that case, the preparation activities would also appear on a lesson plan. You continue creating lesson plans for each subject and curriculum for a student until you have accounted for all of the curricula for all of the subjects. Next, you need to put all of your lessons plans together to form the set of lessons plans for that student for the year. This involves combining the lesson plans by school day so you generate a complete set of plans for each day of the school year. Example of a Combined Lesson Plan for Math and English for a Student
| Day | Date | Subject/Curriculum | Lesson Number and Topic | Estimated Time |
| Mon | September 6 | Math | Lesson 1, Sequences and Digits | 60 min |
| Mon | September 6 | English/Grammar | Lesson 1, Grammar Concepts | 30 min |
| Mon | September 6 | English/Spelling | Words to Live By: Week 1, Lesson 1 | 30 min |
| Mon | September 6 | English/Literature (Reading for book club) | The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 1-2 | 30 min |
| Tue | September 7 | Math | Lesson 2, Even and Odd Numbers | 60 min |
| Tue | September 7 | English/Grammar | Lesson 2, Parts of Speech | 30 min |
| Tue | September 7 | English/Spelling | Words to Live By: Week 1, Lesson 2 | 30 min |
| Tue | September 7 | English/Literature (Reading for book club) | The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 3-4 | 30 min |
| Wed | September 8 | Math | Lesson 3, Using Money to Illustrate Place Value | 60 min |
| Wed | September 8 | English/Grammar | Lesson 3, More on Parts of Speech | 30 min |
| Wed | September 8 | English/Spelling | Words to Live By: Week 1, Lesson 3 | 30 min |
| Wed | September 8 | English/Literature (Reading for book club) | The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 5-6 | 30 min |
| Wed | September 15 | Field Trip to Acme Factory | Field Trip | 7 hours |
| Wed | September 15 | Math | None, field trip | N/A |
| Wed | September 15 | English/Grammar | None, field trip | N/A |
| Wed | September 15 | English/Spelling | None, field trip | N/A |
| Wed | September 15 | English/Literature (Reading for book club) | None, field trip | N/A |