Reasons to not homeschool # 4 - I won't know what to do at each grade level
OR What do I do and when?
Here is the very good news. There is SCADS and I mean LOTS of resources telling you exactly what do and when to do it and even giving you checklists to do it with.
If you are signed up with a learning coach/teacher you will have lots of guidance about what to do when.
Truthfully, there is more help out there on what to do and when - than you could ever want or need.
But, in a nutshell, there are some subjects that "build on themselves" meaning you need to have a certain skill set before you can move forward...like math, for example. And, ultimately, a child needs to have mastered one skill set before they move on to the next, whether they are at the "correct age" to do so or not. If we don't focus on mastery, we set children up for not understanding what comes next.
And there are other subjects, like history, that really doesn't matter what order we present it in.
So doing what and when is an easily solved problem. Gaining cooperation and having joy doing it can be the more elusive task. Knowing what and when is easy, getting what done when it needs doing is sometimes tricksy.
Hence this workshop: