Lesson Plan aggaaiinn!

GRAMMAR

SHIFTING GEARS

After a very tiring holiday, I need to shift gear to Normal Life.
My GOD, FAMILY and COMMUNITY.

First Day of homeschool was a lazy day.
My two home-schooled teens review their past
lessons.I feel guilty, coz' I didn't prepare
their lessons before the holiday starts.I feel
embarrassed to myself and to my children
that I didn't follow my own schedule.

That day after my office and with full of energy,
I gave my son lessons and exercises for next
school day.And, yesterday I started to do
next week lesson plan.

"St.Thomas Aquinas, pray for my children. Amen"

LESSON PLAN needs planning

Need to plan my Lesson Plan.

Sounds confusing but it's true...need to plan it.

Need to have a template.
Where to write, what to write and how I will write
so that even my homeschool student can use my lesson plan
as a resource for their studies.

And I used several techniques to write a notes like mind mapping.

Below is my Lesson Plan Template indicating where to write,
draw, color and the technique I used on each area of the template.

Lesson Plan Template

Sample 1

Sample 2

English 9 Lesson Plan

Science 9 Lesson Plan

Technique No. 1 : Setting Up my Lesson Plan

Taking a Better Lecture Notes:

Technique No. 2 : Using MIND MAPPING for
writing a notes on my Lesson Plan

Mind Mapping

Tony Buzan - Mind Mapping Guru

NOTE:
ALL OF THIS TECHNIQUE IS NOT ONLY FOR
PREPARING A LESSON PLAN...YOU CAN ALSO USE
THIS IN YOUR DAILY NOTE TAKING TASK.

Yes,you can change School Sched... WHY NOT?

I hope this post can help parents to prepare themselves and their kids
before the start of homeschooling.

It's almost a week now when we had a home school Dry Run, and
our one week of real homeschooling was a really challenge for my kids and for me.

PREPARATION FOR SCHOOL:

My kids are now enjoying late waking up for their school.

Previously they need to get out of bed at exactly 5:30 am for a quick shower,
6:00 am for a quick breakfast & dress up and exactly 6:30 am,
they need to go down and wait for school bus. Otherwise,
if they missed the bus I will drive them to school.

But now, they are up at 8:00 am, eat their breakfast (which I made)
at 8:30 am and prepare themselves for a 9:00 am homeschooling.

Previously, me and my wife are preparing our food every night,
after dinner or before going to bed for kids (school) and for us (office).
Now, I am preparing our food every 6:15 am.

Food are available on the fridge, anytime they can eat and during their breaks.

STUDY:

We had a small meeting a night before their first day of school.
I explained where to find their daily course activity, how to use the manual,
how to log on their home school site, where to find course video tutorials.

Also instructed them to make a daily journal in English, at least
5 words or more everyday. I explained where and how to use their
notebook on each subject.

Everything was set. Except for one thing...

"The Parent/Teacher Dad customized Lesson Plan".
I purposely not to do it because I want to know if they can
manage their schedule on their own way.

Home School starts at 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM

My Kids are now more time to read and think
about their Daily Lesson

CONFUSION:

From time to time from my office, I always call my kids asking
if they are good. And most of the answers are fine, we are doing good.

But at night before we sleep they will ask where to find this,
where to read this and one time ..." Are my books complete?".
And most of the time I was trapped and answering "don't worry,
I will take a look at it.

Another confusion.

Since we are from traditional schooling. My kids are still
(I think...) longing for a teacher whose standing in front
of the class and explaining today's lesson.

But now, they are the one who read all the books, starting
from lesson plan, course manual, text books and references.

And I think that was a very stressful to them.

CONCLUSION:

From the time we received our books, I took me two weeks
to review and browse school manuals & some of the books.
Knowing that my effort as a Teacher DAD is fairly enough
to start my kids homeschooling---is really NOT ENOUGH.

I need a serious time to do all teachers stuff for my kids.

Need to do the following.

• A Lesson Plan on each subject at least 1 week ahead of school schedule.
• A serious explanation on each lesson, my student doesn't understand.
• Must watch video tutorials on each subject, so that I can explain clearly to my students.
• Need to re-schedule the school class base on students capacity on each subject.

My recommendations: Parent must prepare a Lesson Plan
at least one week ahead of school schedule

Follow link on how to prepare Lesson Plan:
Lesson Plan needs planning

All of this task needs to be done as soon as possible.

Or I can say...ALL OF THIS TASK MUST BE DONE BEFORE YOU START
YOUR HOMESCHOOLING.

LESSON PLAN for Home Schooling Week 1

During Lesson planning I also looked into my eldest daughter (on my photo as background)
on her manual drafting 101 for her Interior Design Course.

Also visited homeschool site to show my son how to use on-line video tutorials on his French Course.

Important:
1. You need to review your children course/subject manual and on line video tutorials for you to prepare your customized lesson plan.