6 Simple Ways to Prepare for a Fantastic Homeschool Day (The Night Before)

Preparing for your homeschool day before you go to bed at night will help you feel prepared when you wake up in the morning.

Do you ever feel unprepared for your homeschool day when you wake up? Are you flustered in the morning as you start teaching your children? Do you find yourself rushing out the door, irritated, and short with your kids? Here are 6 simple ways to help you have a successful homeschool day by prepping the night before.

Check Your Planner and Schedule

• Look over your planner and check out what you have going on for the next day. Doctors appointments? Co-ops? Stay-at-home day? Prep lunches and snacks if you are going out the next day.

Prepare Your Outfit

• Get your outfit ready. Are you going to workout or are you going somewhere special? Plan accordingly and set your outfit up the night before. This is also great habit to teach your children. Help them to prepare for their day as well by guiding them to pick out their outfit the night before.

Set Up Your Coffee Pot

• Prep your coffee pot!! This one is super important for the coffee fanatic (that’s me). When your coffee is ready for you when you get up in the morning, it is a nice treat for a tired mom.

Get your Homeschool Lessons Ready and Prepped

• Plan out your lessons for the next day and have all of your materials ready to go, that way you aren’t looking around for what you need while your kids are waiting for you to start school.

Tidy Your House Before You Go To Bed

• Leave your house tidied up when you go to bed. About 15 minutes before your kiddos go to bed, have a race to tidy up the house. Kids can put their toys away, load the dishwasher, put odds and ends back in their places all before they lay their sweet heads down for the night. It is so nice to wake up in the morning with a house that hasn’t fallen apart. 😉

Get to Bed Early

• Go to bed at a reasonable time. Although sometimes as moms we like to have our quiet/alone time at night, it is important not to stay up too late. Being cranky and groggy in the morning because we stayed up too late doesn’t set us up for the best day with our children. It is even helpful to get up a bit earlier than your kids in the morning. I enjoy getting up two hours before my children. It is quiet and I am able to gather my thoughts before they get up.
• I spend time reading God’s word, praying for our day, praying for my kids and husband, and working on my small business.

Prepping the Night Before is a great step to Feeling Prepared and Organized for your Homeschooling Day

While we still need to be flexible with our homeschool plans, we can at least be prepared for our exciting day if we take the steps necessary the night before. Before I started following these steps, I found that I struggled with how to go about my day, I was disorganized and often flustered looking for what came next in my homeschooling plans. Now I feel ready when I wake up to take on the day with joy and confidence.

Do you have any tips for prepping for your homeschool day? How do you ensure that your ready for homeschooling your wonderful children?

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