Spring Homeschool Schedule
When you work and homeschool, it is important to understand that your homeschool schedule will adjust with the seasons. If you are looking for ways to make a spring homeschool schedule, I’m here to help!
I’ve always said you need to experience a full year of homeschooling to decide if homeschooling is best for you. Why?
Because as the seasons change, how you manage your time and your homeschool routines and rhythms will change.
Celebrate the flexibility of homeschooling, embrace the warmer weather, and surviving the homeschool burnout that hits in the new year by creating a spring homeschool schedule!
Now is a great time to dig out your homeschool planner and create a homeschool schedule for spring.
Spring is such a wonderful time to take advantage of spring break and start adding more outdoor activities as the snow melts (I live in Canada so this is a thing!) and the weather warms up.
Keep reading as I share with you how to create a spring homeschool schedule for your working homeschool mom life.
Creating A Spring Homeschool Schedule
When it comes to creating a spring homeschool schedule it is important to know that my schedule will no doubt look different from your schedule.
In fact, my spring homeschool schedule looks different than it did when my children were in elementary and middle school. This is because as my children got older our homeschool adjusted to their needs.
If your spring homeschool schedule looks different from last year, that’s okay! Let’s talk about 7 tips for changing up your homeschool schedule in spring.
How To Create A Spring Homeschool Schedule
As the seasons change, your kids get older, you learn new things, and your work changes you will make these adjustments. That’s what working and homeschooling are all about. Ebs and flows.
With that in mind, let’s talk about how to create a spring homeschool schedule for your family.
1. Review & Adjust
Before making any changes, I recommend completing a review of what you are currently doing.
Every time I complete a mid-year review in our homeschool, I make adjustments, both big and small as needed.
Take some time to talk with your kids about what is working and what isn’t working. Get them involved in the conversation and listen intently to their feedback.
One thing I like to do is ask them what changes they would like to make to our current homeschool schedule for spring and then brainstorm solutions.
Don’t forget to include your work schedule and any changes that may come in spring, especially if you are in accounting or bookkeeping!
Use this information to make your spring homeschool schedule.
2. Get Outside
Now that the weather is warming up, it is a great time to encourage your kids to explore and learn outside.
A few ideas might be:
- Add a nature study to your homeschool schedule.
- Create a spring bucket list of outdoor activities
- Encourage your kids to explore their own backyard
One downside of spring-like weather where I live is the mud! I learned to save bath time for after the kids came in from playing outside.
If you accept the kids are going to get messy and have a clean-up plan in place, it makes it easier to allow them to jump in mud puddles and make mud pies!
3. Try New Homeschool Programs
Have your kids hit the spring slump? Are they dragging their feet when it comes to doing their lessons?
Now might be a great time to add something new, fun, and exciting to their spring homeschool schedule.
- Try a subscription box such as Green Craft Kids
- Try an online book club
- Add an online program
- Test a new homeschool program such as CTCMath to see if it is right for you.
A few years ago when the spring slump hit our homeschool, we tried Schoolhouseteachers.com. It was a great way for my kids to explore their interests because the membership came with courses for all ages and grades.
4. Explore New Hobbies
Now is a great time to encourage your kids to indulge in a new hobby and explore new interests.
My youngest has been wanting to learn to sew. She is busy looking up Youtube Videos and researching patterns on Etsy.
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Take your kids to the library, show them how to research online, and ask good questions. Epic has a full library of books and videos on different topics. Try Epic for free and look around.
If possible, shorten your homeschool lessons to give your kids more free time to explore their interests, especially during daylight hours when they can get outside.
5. Teach Life Skills
Spring is a great time to teach your kids life skills. Make a list of skills you feel your children are ready to learn. Start at the beginning and then build on the skills as they master each one.
Here are a few life skills for kids:
- Online Cooking Class For Kids
- Cleaning and Household Chores
- Internet Saftey For Kids
- Basic First Aid
- Meal Planning
Remember to take into consideration the age and stage of your child when you add a life sill to your spring homeschool schedule.
6. Shift Your Homeschool Hours
Homeschooling is extremely flexible which means you can homeschool in the mornings, before work, after work, on weekends, etc.
On days I work at home, my kids would want to get outside to play and explore as early as possible. We homeschooled differently. I would read to them aloud on lunch breaks from Story of The World.
We would listen to audiobooks in the car while I was running errands or on our way to a field trip. On my day off of work, we would do a full day of homeschooling so we could do lighter days on work days.
Give yourself permission to shift your spring homeschool schedule in a way that works for you!
7. Adjust Your Expectations for Spring
When spring hits, we sometimes panic thinking we need to finish all our homeschool coursework because the end of the homeschool year is coming ahhhhh!!!!
If that’s you, I want you to take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay.
Let go of the idea that you need to get everything done. A good friend of mine is a public school teacher and she said they rarely if ever get an entire textbook done in a year.
Remember the wonderful thing about homeschooling is that you go at the child’s pace. If you need to slow down or take a break from homeschooling do it.
One adjustment we made was to plan on doing only half of the textbook in one year and then finishing the textbook the next year. Or check to see if the next book has a review and you can just stop whenever you want.
Spring Homeschool Schedule
While I believe planning is essential to working and homeschooling, I also know that life is all about making adjustments when needed.
By all means, create a spring homeschool schedule but then, hold those plans loosely. By that I mean if you notice something isn’t working, change it!
Don’t forget to work in your spring schedule time to spring clean your homeschool.
Homeschool Activities For Kids:
One thing I like to do is create a list of activities for kids and pull them out when the kids go stir-crazy.
What does your spring homeschool schedule look like?
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