Book Description

Homeschool planning can be overwhelming and frustrating. It's a lot to coordinate! Andrea's step-by-step approach can help every homeschool mom - regardless of homeschool style - plan out an enjoyable and productive homeschool year. She walks you through discovering your ideal year and guides you through the process of creating practical schedules and routines that will work for your family. She gives advice on evaluating curriculum and integrating experiential learning, and wraps up this homeschooling book by simplifying the portfolio process. Day 1: Planning Your Homeschool Year Day 2: Homeschool Schedules and Routines Day 3: Picking Curriculum Day 4: Non-Book Learning for Your Homeschool Day 5: What Should I Keep in My Child's Portfolio? Plan Your Homeschool in 5 Days also includes an appendix filled with 10 helpful worksheets and homeschool planning reference guides that can be photocopied and used every year! From traditional homeschoolers to Charlotte Mason moms to unschooling families, this book helps you get your ducks in a row so you can enter the new homeschooling year with confidence or pivot to make necessary mid-year changes. Andrea Townsley is an experienced homeschool mom who struggled with homeschool planning and could never keep up. In 2018, she decided to use a logical process to finally create a plan she could stick with, and through the years, she has been sharing this process with new and veteran homeschoolers alike. She now takes an unschooling approach but this method of homeschool planning is still effective! She wrote this book to spell out the process and try to reach every homeschool mom who is struggling.