Goals give us direction. If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?
Take some time to pray over what you want to accomplish. Use your homeschool mission statement as a guide.
Keep your goals simple. For our homeschool goals, a bullet list worked perfect for us. These were goals we wanted to see achieved when homeschooling was over.
Having your goals written out can greatly help save time and money because it gives you guidelines for what to teach, what curriculum and resources to invest in, and what extracurricular activities to pursue. Everything you choose for your homeschool venture should bring you closer to reaching the goals you listed and avoid pulling you further away from them.
Here’s a list of the 18 homeschool goals we wanted to see our child achieve by the time she graduated. Use this list to inspire writing a list of your own. ( Feel free to borrow any of these goals to add to your list.)
- Love Jesus and keep Him as the center of her/his life
- Develop skills, knowledge, and talents to love and serve God and her/his ‘neighbors’
- Love learning and not separate it from the rest of her/his life
- Know how to find and use Information
- Gain full usable knowledge of the Bible, math, history( World, US, and State), geography, reading, spelling, writing, grammar, and science.
- Appreciate music art and literature
- Have a strong self-image
- Have the high morals
- Always try her/his best
- Think for herself/himself, question things
- Maintain a physically fit and healthy lifestyle
- Be responsible
- Be patriotic
- Use proper manners in social situations
- Master life skills
- Respect legitimate authority
- Use wisdom, common sense, and discernment to make wise decisions
- Have knowledge and skills to become a wonderful godly wife and mother / husband and father
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DEBBIE BROWN
Hi! I’m Debbie Brown. I created Tothood 101 because I’m passionate about sharing preschool activity ideas, and resources that I’ve gleaned from 20+ years of experience teaching preschoolers at home and in the classroom. My goal is to encourage, guide, and help inspire you to make learning SUPER FUN for your preschooler at home! Check out the ABOUT page to learn more.
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