The framework for an authentic classical education is long-term in that your overall goal is to bring your child to skills mastery (reading, thinking, writing, speaking) over several years. Then we break that larger strategic vision into smaller units of time (like semesters) and tackle short-term goals like teaching nouns or the scientific method. So my homeschool lesson plan template is a tool for reaching the short-term goals within the larger context of the long-term vision. If you need help with creation student work, go to https://courseworkwriting.help/write-my-essay

You’ll become more efficient at writing short homeschool lesson plans if you follow these six-steps:

• Goal

• Warm-Up

• Lesson

• Joint Activity

• Wrap-Up

• Practice
  

So let’s practice some active learning! See the three images right below this paragraph? There’s one for the Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric Lesson Plan templates. Pause the audio, and click on an image to download and print one of the blank lesson plan templates (it doesn’t matter which one) so that you can write what I say on the appropriate lines.

Homeschool Reading Lesson Plan Reading Lesson PlanHomeschool Critical Thinking Lesson Plan Thinking Lesson PlanHomeschool Writing Lesson Plan Writing Lesson Plan Are you ready? Let’s go!

Goal this is where you get specific about what improvement in the particular skill you want to see before you move on to the next lesson. So for example, my goal for Sally is that she will recognize 9/10 punctuation errors or be able to explain the steps to solving a problem to her dad.

Warm-up the activity you plan where she gets to play with the new idea

Lesson this is the new concept you’re going to teach like, let’s say antonyms. Don’t forget to frame it within the larger context; so if learning antonyms is the lesson, I would connect the new info about antonyms with what she already knows about synonyms. Remember to include bite-sized challenge activities along with each bit of new knowledge (not blah, blah, blah, test)

Joint activity do something together with the new idea like play a game, quiz each other, or sort the data

Wrap-up is just what it sounds like…where you summarize the lesson, and you can have your kid do this to see if she gets it or not

Practice here, you’ll plan what she’s going to do for the next few weeks with her new knowledge so she doesn’t forget it.

Homeschool Lesson Plan Recap

So let’s review what we’ve learned active learning and the 6 steps to planning a homeschool lesson. We start with warm-up which is where we introduce the new idea and do something concrete with it. Then we move on to the real substance the lesson with maybe 2-3 short bursts of information followed by 2-3 hands-on activities. Don’t forget to put the new info in context with what she already knows. (If you plan 3 pieces of info for the lesson, 2 of them would be new info and 1 of them would be something related that she already knows.)

Next, mom and kid do something together with the new info, then to wrap-up either review the lesson for her or ask her to tell you what she learned. So of the 6 steps of a classical lesson plan, steps 1 and 6 are for you, the parent, while steps 2, 3, 4, and 5 involve your child. Got it? Great!

More information:

The College Quandary Are online classes for me?