Pre-Planning the Year

I hope you and your family are enjoying some summer time fun. While it's not quite time to prepare for the new year, I do want to run a few ideas by you that you should at least be thinking about for now.
Most of the time, we tend to think of closing out the year with a bang. We'll plan parties, have a few friends over, play games or watch some movies.  
So, I have the thought why don't we do the same to start our year off right.  One of the key factors in successfully homeschooling our children is to get them connected to other homeschoolers and get involved in some community wide activities.  Make an annual pre-school planning event in your community.  Consider the following:

• Meet with other parents to discuss last years challenges and how to offset them
• Discuss any changes, why the change, what benefit are you hoping to achieve - there will always be somebody who can benefit from your experiences.
• Plan a community wide back to school party.  Perhaps all can go together to rent a local swimming pool and share in food costs.
• Allow the kids to talk about their ideas and to be a part of the planning.  Some would argue the child would say "no school".  Involving your child and helping them to see their future strengthened through education can be motivating.  In the end, remember that you are the adult but also remember, we were once in their shoes.  

So, as you finish out your summer,  I hope you consider helping your child get off to a good start, celebrating who they are -they are special, they are our future, go into the new year with a bigger bang than ever before.
Lexi
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