Goals give us direction. If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? That’s why your life-long goals for homeschooling are so important. They help serve as a road map to help keep you moving in the right direction.
Take some time to pray over what you want to accomplish by homeschooling. Preschool is the ideal time to establish your goals so you start heading in the right direction from the very beginning. Keep your goals simple.
If you have written out your homeschool mission statement, use it as a guide for crafting your life-long homeschool goals. If you haven’t written out a mission statement, you may want to do that before tackling your goals.
For our homeschool goals, a bullet list worked perfectly for us. These were goals we wanted to see achieved when homeschooling was over.
Writing out your goals can greatly help you save time and money. 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.
Life-Long Goals for Homeschooling
Here’s a list of the 20 Life-Long Goals for Homeschooling 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 life.
- Develop skills, knowledge, and talents to love and serve God and her ‘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 high Christian morals and values.
- Always try her best.
- Think for herself. Question things.
- Maintain a physically fit and healthy lifestyle.
- Be responsible.
- Be dependable.
- Be trustworthy.
- 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.
FREE Homeschool Goals Printable
Download and print out your copy of the Homeschool Goals to inspire and use as you craft your own list of goals.
Where to next?
Preschool Homeschool Curriculum
Preschool At Home – A Quick Starter Guide
What is a Scope and Sequence?
