5 Ways to End Your Homeschool Year Right

It is May, which means that we are beginning to wrap up our homeschool year. As we close things out, there are a few things I like to do, some “end of year housekeeping” to ensure we’re covering everything we need to be learning, and all the fun things I want to be teaching too.

1. I make sure we’re at the end of our books or have met our curriculum goals. I don’t always have my children do every page in their books and workbooks, we just cover the material until they’ve mastered the subject, and then occasionally throw in a review or difficult problem applying those skills as the year goes on.

In homeschool we naturally move quickly ahead in some subjects while other subjects may be slower or fall off track a bit, and so in the last month or so of school I like to go back and cover anything we may have missed, and make sure we’re on target.

2. 3. 4. Double check the standard learning objectives for the grades I’m teaching from home. Kto8 website is a good resource for this information, and I oftentimes seek out another source or two like my state’s curriculum, or another educational website to make sure we really have covered all the educational concepts…