How Planning Brings More Wonder Into Your Homeschool
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Homeschool Better Together Podcast, where we explore building a joyful homeschool experience for your family. In this episode, host Pam Barnhill shares four practical tips that will help you move from feeling overwhelmed to prepared; ensuring your homeschooling days are filled with curiosity, excitement, and wonder. Whether it’s planning amazing field trips, following your kids' interests with a Wonder Wall, or incorporating morning basket time into your routine, this episode has you covered.
Listen in for practical tips on selecting the best resources, making your homeschool both orderly and enriching, and creating an environment tailored to the interests of your children. Let's step out of the overwhelm and into the joy of learning together!
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Key Takeaways:
- Discover the structured approach to choosing curriculum as the fourth step in homeschooling planning, detailing the prior steps including reviewing the homeschool vision and setting specific student goals.
- Learn how to incorporate wonder into your homeschool planning, focusing on creating opportunities for children to wonder about the world rather than only experiencing big, awe-inspiring moments.
- Understand the importance of intentionality in your homeschool vision and goals, specifically how setting specific aims for introducing wonder can transform your educational environment.
- Explore practical scheduling strategies to include wonder regularly, whether through field trips, weekly or biweekly wonder activities, or daily morning basket routines.
- Get insights on following your children's interests by creating a Wonder Wall, allowing them to contribute topics they are curious about and using this input to plan engaging studies.
- Hear suggestions for preparing ahead to gather the best resources, such as highly-recommended books, videos, and games, ensuring these materials are enriching and inspiring for your children.
- Learn about the benefits of leveraging the Homeschool Better Together community to crowdsource recommendations, helping you find high-quality educational tools and foster a collaborative learning experience.
For full show notes and a transcript of today’s episode, head to pambarnhill.com/hsbt7
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again? |
| 0:05.4 | Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids? |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and |
| 0:22.0 | into the wonder. Let's do this. Hey there, friend, welcome to the podcast today. I don't know about |
| 0:34.2 | you, but I am right in the middle of choosing curriculum for the new school year. |
| 0:41.6 | This is a big thing that I do in May and June. So like I'm knee deep in doing it right now. |
| 0:47.6 | Now, one of the things that I always like to remember is that choosing curriculum for my school year is actually step number four |
| 0:57.6 | in my planning process. Well, technically it's like 3B, but there are three steps that come before |
| 1:05.4 | choosing my curriculum for the school year each year. The first step for me is reviewing my |
| 1:10.6 | homeschool vision. I wrote my |
| 1:12.1 | homeschool vision over 10 years ago. And so all I have to do each year is review it. So that's step |
| 1:18.9 | number one. Step number two is writing goals for each one of my students. What are the very specific |
| 1:25.0 | things that I want to hone in on for my students to do this year. |
| 1:29.5 | And then the third step is choosing what classes we're going to be doing in our homeschool. |
| 1:35.1 | Because as homeschoolers, we actually have the freedom to make that choice. |
| 1:39.3 | We do not have to do what the public school or the private school down the road is doing. So it's only after |
| 1:45.8 | I've done those three steps that I will actually begin looking at curriculum for my school year. |
| 1:52.8 | So if you have any questions about any of those three steps or the seven other steps that come |
| 1:58.4 | after that for putting your homeschool year on autopilot, |
| 2:01.5 | check out the link to put your homeschool year on autopilot in the show notes. |
| 2:05.5 | Okay, so now I want to move into today's topic for the podcast, |
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