For Homeschoolers..?

Question

How many hours do you do a day? when do you start? when do you finnish? whats it like?

what is unschoolers??

Answer 1

I've been homeschooled my whole life. I'm 15 and in 10th grade. I usually start school at nine....and it depends how far I go into the day. Sometimes I don't even feel like doing stuff....and since I'm in highschool, I have my own schedule. If I don't finish my school during a day...I just have to make up for it another day. Sometimes I do school all day...getting alot done. It's very very flexible. I can go babysitting during the day and still do school later. I can go do something fun during the day too if I want.

Answer 2

This is one of those things that will depend on the family/student.

I know one family who starts at 7am and go until 3 most days. The kids are grade 5 and grade 7. Another one that has about 4 hours of official school work in the morning, then lessons most afternoons. The kids are grade 4 and grade 6. I know a high school homeschooling girl who spends 3 hours 2 days a week and 5 hours the other 3 days (plus has sports training and coaching on top of that). My 6yo does up to an hour or so a day. Sometimes more, if he's in the mood, but the more will be things like art or music. My 9yo usually does 2-4 hours a day. If it's 4 hours, it means she's spent at least an hour reading.

Answer 3

As someone who has been homeschooled for almost my entire life, I would say that it depends deeply on each person's situation. Some people follow a regimental school-type schedule, starting at around 7:30 and then going well into the afternoon. I myself never really did that up until last year when I was preparing to go to secondary school for the first time. Before, I would have gotten up around 8:00, and only done a few structured things and afterwards gone to read or go on errands. I enjoyed immenselt, but since my mum was my only teacher, it got quite tedious because she is only skilled in so many areas. It ended with me having tutors for my core academic subjects such as math and science, while I did more of the arts stuff at home. I would say that homeschooling is by far superior to school because you get exposed to what goes on during the school day. I have many fond memories of being asked the question "Why aren't you in school today?" by cashiers etc. Not only that, but you can avoid the hedgy competition that schools force on their pupils so young. I don't think that I ever worried about "grades" up until this year and still don't really pay that much attention to their significance.

Answer 4

My kids are in grades 7 & 8. My son is the 7th grader and works much more slowly, so I usually start with him at 8:30 or so and let my daughter sleep in a bit. They are both on track by about 9:15, and go through lunch, till about 12:30 [they have a class on video that they watch while they eat lunch]. That's usually it. We do have year round schooling, but we take off a lot during the year. We do one year's worth of work in one calendar year. I just divide what we want to do into 12 lesson plan pages and we complete one page/month. If we get ahead then we take it easy for awhile. It is not hard. We do use standardized curriculum, and even do a lot of extras that the kids wouldn't get in school, and still have time left over. In the afternoon we do sports stuff.

Answer 5

As you can see, there is no one way to "do" homeschool. Everyone is different
My daughter is in highschool and her schedule (by choice) is quite intense. She works a "normal" day beginning at 8:45 and ending around 4:30. She usually does not have to work in the evenings, but occaisionally she will work on something in which she is not as strong. she is a math/science person, so writing essays takes more time for her.
My second grader does better splitting his day in to sections. Work some, take a break, work some, take a break, so on.
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Answer 6

We start around 9:00 am work for two to three hours take a break and work another two hours ending about three.My son is severely learning impaired an at the age of 13 he is working at a 4-5 year old level.We are always learning new things even if it is a new word when we aren't schooling.

Answer 7

We are unschoolers too so we learn throughout the day. There are no set hours for learning. We just learn thru everyday life. It would depend on the family. Some are more strict with their hours and some more flexible.

Answer 8

My kids usually have formal "school time" for about 2-3 hours a day, give or take. They also read a lot and watch educational videos that I count as school. They start around 10:30, break for lunch at noon and finish up around 2ish. They enjoy it.

Answer 9

I did about an hour a day (sometimes not even). I did it whenever I had time. It was easy. I worked at K-Mart at different times, so it suited my schedule (even though I didn't have to work). I loved homeschooling.

Answer 10

I really should stop coming to the homeschooling section. Every time I do, I want to call child protective services and explain to them how home schooled kids are deprived.

Of course you kids love it. They aren't separated from mommy. They don't have to deal with normal issues of growing up. They work 1-2 hours a day and don't realize that it's almost impossible to keep up with school children who work 5-6 hours a day.

One of the answers here really touched on it - Mom is almost never an expert, so the education is limited by how far she can take it.

The success stories I've heard so far are that the kids managed to get into community college. Breaking news - that isn't great.

Unless you have a bad or inaccessible school district, do the right thing and send your kids to school. God won't mind.