This week on Heart of the Matter’s Not Back to School Hop, the theme is A Day in the Life. While we don’t have a typical homeschooling day around here, we do tend to follow a certain rhythm in our homeschooling.
We usually work on our formal schooling from around 9:30 or 10 am until around 2:00 pm each day. We do have some variation in this, but this is very typical of our day. We often won’t eat lunch until 2 pm when we’re done. If we eat lunch during our formal schooling time, then we might go later than 2:30 pm. We don’t get too hung up on particular times of day. We start whenever we start, and we’re done when we’re done.
Our schedule varies by the day. But, here is a general run down of what we typically do in a week (all of these listed are more of our formal learning, and they don’t include times we read for fun, pray and talk about our faith, count money for the store, do craft projects, make recipes, and any other times we are learning just by living):
Language Arts: We work on various aspects of language arts everyday. Grammar and Spelling are every day, while composition, vocabulary, and handwriting take place a few times a week.
Math: Every does math every day. (Every so often, Jack decides he wants to do more than one math lesson in a day, since he is just loving using Teaching Textbooks.)
Science: We are using Noeo for science this year, and it is set up on a four day per week schedule. Sometimes we do two days worth on the same day though.
Reading: Everyday (we also do silent reading everyday), Poetry once a week
Religion: Three days a week
Art: Twice a week
Music: Piano lessons once a week and piano practice daily, One music time together once per week
French: Twice a week
Extracurriculars: Dance class once per week (for Molly), Gymnastics once per week (Jack and Molly), and then later in the year, we will work on 4-H once per week for a few hours as a project time. For most of the school year, we also participate in a co-op every other week where all of the children are able to take classes. (This year, they’re taking things like photography, art, sewing, chess, etc.)
I also try, even though my kids love to jump on the computer or video games as soon as school is done, to have the kids spend some time each week doing activities such as Legos, Snap Circuits, Chess, and the like.
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