Weekly Homeschool Lesson Plans

Interest-Led Lesson Plans and Weekly Recaps

With one homeschool graduate already in college and my youngest working through his last years of high school, one of the questions I am asked most is what our days and weeks look like. It can be hard to imagine an interest-led, strength-based approach to learning. 

In order to best give you a realistic sense of what this type of learning “looks like” and how to lesson plan for it, I am sharing my real life, homeschool lesson plans, week by week.

maps and timelines
hands-on learning

Homeschool Lesson Plans For All Ages

A few caveats…

Almost everything we complete each week is grounded in two things –

#1 – How is my son feeling and what he is physically able to accomplish.

#2 – What my son is most passionate about learning and how to create activities that help him progress academically while still maintaining his interests.

You may look at one of our weeks and think, “How will that ever be enough to graduate a child from high school?” I won’t blame you if you do. I’ve asked myself the same thing over and over again.

This is the same weekly approach I employed with his older brother throughout high school. For four years, I worried and felt guilty. For four years, I constantly wondered how it would all turn out. (Truth be told, I felt like this for more than a decade. The last four high school years just seemed to intensify it.)

Looking back, I now feel confident in saying that it all adds up over time.  It’s why I feel so strongly about sharing these plans in this way.

A single week doesn’t define a child’s education or a mom’s ability to homeschool.

An entire year of weeks? Well, that creates a much more accurate reflection of the learning that is actually taking place.

A Full Year Of Weekly Homeschool Lesson Plans: Interest-Led and Strengths Based Learning

See them all here.