Setting Goals for the New Year

Setting Goals
By Tasha Chinnock

Every support group, convention speaker and home school book or blog I have ever gleaned from has emphasized the need to set goals for yourself. There are handy tools all over the internet to help you graph out your objectives and how you will achieve them. It is important not only to set new goals for each new school year, but to reinforce your goals and reasons for homeschooling every year. This way, when you get weary or frustrated, you have something to look back on and remember that you truly are achieving the things you set out to do from the very beginning. So, with that intent, I present to you our goals.

My Reasons for Teaching at Home:
· God’s word makes teaching these children my responsibility above anyone else’s.
· I want my kids to look at life from a Biblical perspective.
· I want them to have the benefits of one-on-one teaching.
· I love spending time with my kids and watching them learn new things.

My Goals for This Year:
· Have a well-organized school area
· Develop a realistic schedule
· Get the kids excited about reading
· By the end of their year, Ardara and Huyler should be reading easy readers on their own
· By the end of the year they should be adding, subtracting, telling place value, time, and counting money easily.
· Ardara and Huyler will be journaling regularly
· They will learn to understand and apply Biblical principles in their own lives.
· Augie should be saying his alphabet, recognizing letters and numbers 0-10.
· All three kids should have improved drawing skills.
· All three kids will be able to recognize different musical instruments.

My Most Important Goal:
· Spending lots of time with my kids, having lots of fun learning about the history of the world, the phenomenon of the Bible, the beauty of creation, the wonder of God’s grace and the potential they each have to become something great.