While mapping a home school yearly schedule is an excellent idea, remember to allow for flexibility in schedule. Any school year, especially since school year is taking place also centered around your home and your family, will have need for unforeseen breaks and absences. Not to worry, just as there are unforeseen missed hours and even days in public school so will there be with your at home education.

Just remember it may take a while to sand off rough edges of your home school schedule to where you feel you have best optimized it. As year goes by, if you have kept good records and used your lesson plan as your guide you will see that your child is indeed learning all along way.

Public libraries are a great source for books but they aren’t always accessible. Buying new books can rapidly drain budget. There are many resources available for homeschooling materials. Many homeschool groups have book fairs and other organizational event that are a great place to pick up slightly used books and materials. Don’t forget to mention to your family and friends that high on your list of needs are homeschool materials and resources. You’ll be surprised how many of your friends will donate materials that they had purchased for their kids when they were younger and there is always your birthday and other holidays that you can put homeschool supplies on your wish list!

Don’t rule any source for you out! Be creative, and be frugal and you can put together a homeschool material and resource center that will benefit everyone.