You’ll love my newest form which is a printable homeschool life skills checklist. Also, grab more free homeschool forms on my page Homeschool Planner.
Whether you call them chores or life skills, it’s what we strive to teach our kids during our whole homeschool journey.
Besides, when children are young, chores can help a child develop fine motor skills but also foster independence.
And like any skill it is best taught through imitation and repetition.
When children are young, it’s helpful to list chores to guide them in how to eventually care for themselves.
Also, they learn by imitating what you do.
For example, a two-year-old sees you sweeping and the next thing you see your toddler grabs a broom and attempts to sweep. Nurture that love of wanting to help.
Beyond that as I mentioned, the process of learning self-care and then how to care for others nurtures self-reliant qualities.
What Are Life Skills
First, what are life skills.
I’ve read many definitions but basically it is a set of skills that helps a person take care of self and others.
And although I listed many physical things on the list, some things like handling emotions, making decisions, not being entitled, are learned the same way.
Children learn these vital skills in many ways.
We homeschool so that our kids can learn from us; we are our child’s foremost teacher.
And another safe way kids learn life skills is through direct hands-on learning.
This is why it’s important that our children learn them while under our supervision.
They understand successes and failures and consequences for their actions.
Beyond practical life skills like managing self-care, learning finances, and meal prepping, children have much to learn about healthy relationships with others.
Additionally, critical thinking skills and even compassion and empathy can appear void in some adults.
How I organized the printable
Lastly, instead of assigning an age to the skill, I just listed skills from the easiest to complex.
Some children have special needs, others are more advanced than their sibling, and still some struggle in one area over another.
So, you can use a different color for each child or use one with all your children. I made them so you could print one for each school year and simply highlight the skill when you feel you’ve covered it enough with your children.
Also, you’ll love some of these pretty supplies for your homeschool planner.
15 Gorgeous Homeschool Planner Supplies
Whether you add a bit of eye candy or consider it essential supplies, you'll love some of these ideas.
Set of 3 slide-tab reusable plastic envelopes
Love how these write.
8 Bright Colors: Including blue, light blue, green, yellow, orange, rose red, pink and purple; colorful memo pads that look good and are hard to ignore.
I love these because every color you need is available in one pen.
You can add dividers to your planner by cutting off just a bit of it and it still can be coil bound, but let the office personnel where you take your planner to be bound to trim it for you.
RAINBOW PAPER PENCIL:The inner body of pencils is made of rainbow -like recycled papers.Premium #2 HB grade lead for smooth writing and drawing.
USA Brand ZEYAR, AP Certified. BRIGHT COLORS: the assortment of Great bright Fluorescent or Macaron inks protect and emphasize your handwritten texts, No shadow on the next
page
These work beautiful on your planners. Bible Safe Dry Highlighters: These no bleed highlighters are great for journaling and memorizing verses
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You don't need an expensive printer to print your homeschool planner. I've used this mobile printer for years.
I've used these for years and love them.
And then I have hundreds of free homeschool planning forms.
Grab some of them below.
More Homeschool Planning Resources
Look at these other homeschool planner forms.
- School Year 2024-2025 Homeschool Planning Schedule Sky Color Beautiful Form
- STEP 1. Choose a Pretty Front & Back Cover.
- 2. Choose Calendars & Appointment Keepers
- 3. Choose Goals & Objectives
- 4. Choose Lesson Planning Pages Right For YOU!
- 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You!
- 5b. Choose More Unique Forms
- Free Pre-Homeschool Year Planning Checklist For Your Homeschool Planner
- 2023-2024 One Page Printable Calendar
- 2023 to 2024 Two Page Monthly Calendar
- School Year 2023-2024 Homeschool Planning Schedules
- 31 Popular and Free Homeschool Planner Printables
- 32 Free Beautiful Homeschool Planner Cover Pages
- Homeschool Planner Supplies – Organizational Eye Candy
- 4 Colorful and Editable Homeschool Lesson Plan Templates
- Homeschool Planner Stickers
- 3 Free High School Planner Cover Designs
- 5 Beautiful and Detailed Planners for Homeschool Moms
- Reasons a Paper Planner Is Better Than a Homeschool Online Planner
- The Ultimate and Beautiful DIY Homeschool Unit Study Planner
- Gorgeous 7 Step Free Homeschool Planner You Build
- 6 Ways a Homeschool Daily Planner Beats a Weekly Planner
- A Unique Flexible and Beautiful Preschool Homeschool Planner
- 4 PRE-Homeschool Year Planning Pages (and tips to use them)
- How to Create A Homeschool Lesson Plan in 7 Easy Steps
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