Ep 50 - Lesson 1: Protect your School-time

Key Takeaway-->Enjoy the freedom of homeschooling as you protect your school-time! Welcome to Season 3 of The Tips for Homeschool Science Show. This season, I am sharing 10 lessons I have learned in my ten plus years of homeschooling. I hope that all of them will help you on your homeschooling journey! {Disclaimer - I don't claim to know everything there is to know about homeschooling, but these ten lessons are ones that I have found important and useful in my homeschooling journey. And I trust that you will too.} In today's episode, we will chat about one of the first lessons I learned in homeschooling along with three ways you can protect your school-time. Let's dig in! **Share the Tips** If you found these homeschool science tips to be helpful, would you please take a moment to rate it on iTunes or Stitcher? This would help me tremendously in getting the word out so that more earbuds are filled with science-teaching encouragement. **Highlights** 3 ways you can protect your school-time One of the very first lessons I learned as a homeschooler was to protect our school-time. Here are three ways I have found to make sure that we protect our school-time in order to make sure that we hit the highlights, including science each week! 1. We make school-time a priority. This means that between the hours of 9 am and noon during our “school year” you can pretty much guarantee you won’t be able to get a hold of me. Why? Because this is when the core of our learning time happens. Here are a few guidelines we use: >No appointments or classes during these three hours. >No phones or social media. >No TV or video games before lunch. >And our kids are expected to be out of bed before 830 on a school day. Are there days when this goes out the window? Of course – we are human! But overall, we stick to our guidelines and make school-time a priority. 2. We don’t overbook our time. The second thing we do to protect our school-time is that we avoid overbooking our time. It is important for them to have those amazing education experiences that the freedom of homeschooling allows us, but it is equally important that we do the work of learning the basics. It’s a delicate balance that I seek to maintain by not overbooking our time. 3. We schedule regular breaks. And finally, we protect our school-time by scheduling regular breaks. I like to schedule a break at least every six to nine weeks. I have found that knowing that we have a break scheduled on the books makes it easier to protect the school-time we do have planned to do! **In a Nutshell** Enjoy the freedom of homeschooling! Chase a rabbit trail or two. Just make sure that you make your planned school-time a priority, you don’t overbook your time, and you scheduled regular breaks during the school year. ------------------------------- Don't miss an episode! Sign up for the Elemental Science weekly emails here: eepurl.com/bFu3Jj. ------------------------------- Find Paige here: > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elementalscience/ > Elemental Science Website: https://elementalscience.com/ > Sassafras Science Website: http://sassafrasscience.com/