Our Homeschool Goals for 2019 Plus a FREE Printable Goal Setting Worksheet for You!

Happy New Year!

As we put up a new calendar and think about all of our personal goals and resolutions for 2019, this is also a great time to set some fresh goals for your homeschool.

This point in the school year, whether you follow a traditional calendar or homeschool year-round, is a perfect spot to stop and reevaluate. Ask yourself what is currently working in your homeschool and what needs to change. Clarify your vision, declutter your time and your space, and set some priorities.

I want to encourage you to pray and ponder the direction your homeschool needs to go in 2019, and then write down some specific goals. This doesn't have to be a long list. Perhaps narrow down your goals to 5 top priorities. But writing them down helps make them real to you. To help you with this process, I am offering you a free goal setting printable!

Once you have those goals written down and prayed over, you can start setting up systems and making plans for success in meeting those goals.

I am going to share with you my top 5 goals for our homeschool (Shield of Faith Homeschool) for 2019 in just a minute, but I want to remind you that your goals and my goals may not be anywhere near the same. And that is just as it should be! You should be focused on your own family and the unique needs of your own children.

Here are my Top 5 Goals for Our Homeschool in 2019:

1. Read Aloud Consistently

We all love reading, we all love books, and reading aloud as a family is so beneficial. So whether it be a work of classic literature, a fun character building story, or a book related to a topic we are currently studying, I want to make reading aloud daily with my children a bigger priority this year in our homeschool.

2. Scripture Memory

Building a strong shield of faith in my children is the ultimate goal of our homeschool, so getting them into the Word and getting the Word into them is a big priority for us. We have done a lot of Scripture memory work, but I really want to challenge us all a bit more in this area in 2019.

3. Big Discussions

It can be so easy to get busy checking off assignments and completing tasks that we don't take the time to talk about what we are learning. As homeschoolers, we have such a golden opportunity to create meaningful relationships with our children by slowing down long enough to just talk with them. So  facilitating more big discussions in our homeschool is a goal for us in 2019.

4. Sing Together Daily

My husband and I are both very musical people. We both love to sing and enjoy listening to Gospel music. And although we have sung a little bit here and there with our children, I definitely feel like we could do a better job of passing on songs and hymns of the faith to them. So I am setting a goal of singing together daily for our homeschool this year.

5. Play More Games!

All work and no play makes any homeschool dull. Again, it can be all too easy to get into a rut of just checking off boxes that we forget to keep learning fun and exciting for ourselves and our children. So many key educational concepts can be effectively taught and reviewed with fun games, and I want to include more games in our homeschool in 2019.

Now that I have clarified my goals for our homeschool this year, I can really get to work setting up helpful systems and making plans for meeting them.

Do you need help thinking through your homeschool goals for 2019? I have created a helpful goal-setting worksheet for you! Just click here and enter your email address to download it and get started making 2019 your best homeschool year yet!

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