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    Typical Homeschool Daily Schedule - 2014-05-15 16:16:08-04

Ever wonder what a typical homeschool daily schedule looks like? Or is there anything typical about homeschooling every day?

Not really, but I’ll share 2 typical days in our homeschool.

Our schedule changed over the years, as my kids grew up. Let me share 2 schedules that we followed . . . for the most part.

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Elementary Age Homeschool Daily Schedule

7:30am – Breakfast together with family devotions – I led family devotions when the kids were younger. You can read my story about whether dad or mom should lead family devotions here.

Our 24 Family Ways was one of my favs when I lead devotions, after Steve went to work.

8:15am – Get dressed, clean up, piano practice, memory songs (give mom time to clean the kitchen and catch her breath)

My kids learned states & countries, just from listening to Audio Memory Geography Songs. They loved dancing in the living room while singing the songs.

9-10am – Family time  -  includes reading aloud a fantastic book, kids reading poetry aloud, discussion of Bible or history

The Cat of Bubastes is the first Henty we read & still one of our family favorites

My kids chose a poem every morning to read aloud, usually from Where the Sidewalk Ends or A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

10:00 – Recess  (a break for mom)

10:15 – Snack – yummy

10:30 – Work on individual assignments until lunch (math, writing, reading, spelling, grammar, science, history). Each child had a weekly spreadsheet from me. As they completed an assignment, they checked it off with a dry-erase marker.

I spent time with each child going over whatever I needed to teach. Not every subject was done every day, but this was my individual teaching time.

12:00 or 12:30pm – Lunch

1pm – Silent reading time-about 1 hr

Afternoons – Play, Hands-on activities, Group activities, Sports practices

In the evening, we tried to read aloud with Dad reading one of his favorites.

Originally I read aloud to the kids after lunch.

Problem: I fell asleep reading aloud and had to ask one of the kids to finish the chapter.

Solution: I created family time at the beginning of our day, as a way to start our day with read aloud first. I wanted my kids to know how important books are in our lives, so I made read aloud time the highest priority of the day.

Secondary Age Homeschool Daily Schedule

7:30am – Breakfast together with family devotions – By this time, Steve was leading family devotions. Here’s one of his favorite resources:

Training Hearts, Teaching Minds is one of our favorite resources for family devotions, as our kids go older.

8:15 – Get dressed, clean up, piano practice, memory songs or catch up on previous day (give mom time to clean the kitchen and catch her breath)

9-10am – Family time – includes reading aloud a fantastic book, kids reading poetry aloud, discussion of Bible or history  (see above)

10am – Work on individual work until lunch (math, writing, literature, science, history). I checked up with each kid a few times during the week, depending on what they were studying at the time. If I needed to teach or help review, I would do it at this time.

Twice a week we watched a humanities lecture which provided a Biblical worldview of the historical time period we were studying.

12:30pm – Lunch

Afternoons:
Online classes if any kids were taking one, or finish schoolwork
Sports practices

In the evening, we tried to read aloud with Dad reading one of his favorites. Sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn’t.

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