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How to Use Homeschool Lesson Plans Effectively

By: Kayley Kenzie

Using theme-based learning is a great and fun way to homeschool your child. You and your child can brainstorm a theme from any topic that your child is interested in.

Young children might prefer themes around things like apples, the zoo, birds, stars, or a favorite author. Whenever you tailor your homeschool lesson plans around a theme, learning becomes a lot more fun and creative.

When you're basing homeschool lesson plans around a theme unit, one of the other things you'll need to decide is how much time you'll need to cover that particular theme.

It depends largely on how much your child wants to learn the theme, how deeply he or she wants to explore it. You could spend anywhere from a week to a month on particular theme. I suggest spending just two weeks on a theme.

Integrating themes into homeschool lesson plans is not very difficult. You will also realize how much fun you and your child can have by basing all the learning around one theme.

You don't necessarily need to integrate every single subject into the thematic unit. You don't even need to do theme-based learning all of the time with your homeschool lesson plans.

One of the most important things you can do is involve your child in planning the themes. Let you child have some freedom in choosing themes for the lessons.

You'll enhance your children's interest in the lessons when you involve them and give them choices. I think it's very important to get your child involved as much as possible in all aspects of lesson planning and preparation.

Let's go over an example as to how you would build on themes in your homeschooling lesson plans. Take, for example, using apples for your thematic unit. You could have a lesson on how apples grow as part of a science lesson.

We could work on fractions by dividing the apple into various slices. We could learn about Johnny Appleseed in Social Studies. We could even read all sorts of books about apples and write a paragraph about apples in Language Arts.

But there's more: We could turn those apple slices we used in the math lesson to create apple stamps for our art lesson. We could sing songs about apples. We could finish off with a cooking lesson and make apple bread or apple sauce.

The important thing to remember when you're putting together theme-based homeschool lesson plans is to use your child's interests. You'll make learning even more enjoyable when you use thematic units to enhance the curriculum you already have planned.

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