40+ Homeschool Planning Tips from Leading Homeschool Bloggers

Homeschool planning tips are on the top of your mental list right now. I know, because it's that time of year again. Everyone is pulling out their homeschool resources, calendars, weekly planners and teacher's guides, and filling them in for the coming school year.

If you're at a loss for where to start, need some excellent planning tips or just want to hear how others have planned their curriculums, their school rooms and their schedules. I know you'll find plenty of inspiration in today's post. (post updated 5/10/16)

40+ Awesome Homeschool Planning Tips:

Anne of My Learning Table shares tips for

• Aiming for Mastery

Erin of The Usual Mayhem shares

• How to teach any subject without curriculum

Wendy, a long time homeschool mom of many shares these tips:

• Five Ways For Dad's to Participate in Homeschool
• Using Pinterest as a Homeschool Curriculum
• 4 Tips for Homeschooling High School

Victoria from HomemakingWithHeart.com shares about

• How we build our year's curriculum

Stacey from LayeredSoul.com shares lots of printable lists for organizing your year and assignments

• Organzing my Homeschool Planning

Heather from LifeofaHomeschoolMom.com shares ideas for

• Making the First Day of (Home)school Memorable
• 5 Things NOT to do on the First Day of School
• 7 Steps to Planning Your School Year

Angela at HomeschoolingaChangeofHeart.com has a great free planner! (this is awesome for teaching second grade and above to be more independent!)

• Elementary Student Free Weekly Planner

Looking for Middle School help? Marcy at BenandMe.com

• Homeschool Middle School Planning

And for high school – Laurie at OurAbundantBlessings.com

• Homeschool High School Planning

Connie from TheDaisyHead.com also has lots of great high school planning tips

• High School Planning, part 1
• Getting your teens to help with Record Keeping
• Keeping High School Records with College in Mind
• School without a School Room
• Guiding Your Teens Through Social Media

From Joy at AJourneyofJoy.com

• Organizing your homeschool

Bridget from WhileonthisSide.com made her dining room the school room

• Last Year's School Room

Caroline from TheModestMomBlog.com has some encouragement to share

• Planning to avoid the dangers of homeschooling
• Staying motivated and avoiding burnout in homeschool

DaLynn from Biblical Womanhood shares about taking much needed breaks

• Take a Break! 

Steve and Tricia form Hodgepodge.me share tips for large family homeschooling

• Helpful Tips for Homeschooling Multiple Ages

Yvie from Gypsy Road has special needs tips

• How to afford speech therapy

Shelley of Steam Powered Family share

• 10 Tips for Getting Through the Tough Homeschool Days

MaryEllen from ImperfectHomemaker.com shares some great administrative tips

• Organize your Homeschool
• Organizing – keeping those records straight

Crystal from ServingJoyfully.com shares how you don't need a “room” to homeschool

• Our Homeschool Room
• A Kindergarten Homeschool Schedule

Jill at BlessedBeyondaDoubt.com shares some great tips for planning/starting the year off well.

• The How and Why of making a Homeschool Mission Statement
• Free Homeschool Planners
• Homeschool Boot Camp 101
• How to start school on time every day
• Easy Homeschool Record Keeping

Amanda from ThePelsers.com has a great post on history curriculum!

• How to plan your own history curriculum

Shan from the How To Guru tells us

• How to plan a 4 year high school curriculum
• How to homeschool high school

Planning to study Shakespeare or Van Gogh? Visit Chis at CampfiresAndCleats.com for some great ideas!

• Shakespeare Unit Activities
• Van Gogh resources and activities
• Watercolor activities
• Encouragement when homeschool feels less than perfect

Here at Paradise Praises we have some great homeschool resources for you as well. And I'd love for you to follow my homeschool Pinterest boards.

• Summer Learning Series
• 4 R's of a Successful Homeschool Day
• Free Homeschool Printables
• Free Homeschool Resources
• 31 Days of Homeschool Spanish
• Christmas Around the World
• Mexico Geography
• Book List by Topic
• What to Read Wednesday Link Up
• Free Homeschool Helps – weekly post on a different subject each week

Do you have a planning/organizing tip you'd like to share. We'd love to hear about it. Please leave a comment!