Can Homeschooling Mom's give me any example?

Question

Can you tell me what time your get your children out of bed and what time you start homeschooling? Also, in what order do you do different subjects and how long does it take for a yonger student and how long does it take for a high school student to finish their lessons in a day? Thanks for any feedback. I did homeschool my daughter when she was 6 and having anxiety attacks. Now both are in private christian school, May start homeschooling again and if I do I'd like to get a great idea of a basic schedule to keep my kids on.

Answer 1

Every family is different and that is one of the great things about homeschooling, you can tailor your plan to suit your family.
I have a second grader and a highschooler.
My children do better when they are out of bed early, so we get up at 7 (but I allow my older one a little extra snooze time)
My son begins at 8 and my daughter at 8:45-9. (This is just what works best for them)
Our mornings are the most intense parts of our day, with a majority of the lessons completed before lunch. I do give plenty of wiggle breaks for my second grader, lol
My highschooler works all day, but she is on a special schedule to achieve a certain goal. She is finished around 4 and very rarely has work to do on the weekends.
Second grader is finished around 1:30 or so.
I do not like to have work in the evenings, so this is a great schedule for us. Of course, you have to figure in extra things, like field trips, teaching co-ops, PE, science experiments and all those other things, but as a general rule, this is a normal day for us.

Answer 2

I am not as good with schedules because it seems like when ever we set one something comes along a blows it out of the water.

We normally get up between 7:30 and 8 (unless all is right with the world and the kids sleep in, this doesn't happen much)

We have breakfast, make beds, get dressed, and do the breakfast dishes. Then my son starts on school work. This may be at 8:30 or 9 or may be 11:30 just in time to stall until lunch. We have some ADD in my home so sometimes getting dressed takes forever. School work goes until he has finished all subjects. If he wakes up and gets to it he can be done by lunch and then work on projects in the afternoon, if he dilly dallies then it might be 5:30 before he finishes. And then he is usually behind in science or writing projects.

We are working on getting this schedule in a better order as my younger one gets older.

Answer 3

My kids are usually out of bed between 7 and 7:30. We are usually ready to begin work by 8:30. We don't follow a strict schedule, although I do like to set up a rough plan in the morning. For my ds, who's 6, work takes up to an hour (some phonics work, writing work, reading and math are all I require of him; we do extra stuff on the side). My dd is 9 and she usually does about 2.5 hours or so in the morning but then will do additional stuff of her own choosing in the afternoon (writing, reading, music...)

For a high school student, you'll be looking at 3-5 hours a day, not necessarily including general reading that might have to be done.

Answer 4

I am not a homeschooling mother, or a mother at all! But I was home schooled all of my life! My mother always woke us up about 8:00-8:30am, and has us start school by 9:00. I was always done with my school by twelve. I personally am not a morning person but I am the most awake at about 12:00 or 1:00am, so a late(r) start than most schools and home schools was great for me. I think it depends a lot on what the kid is like. I know you cant wait until all hours for a kid to wake up, but if a child has a best time that they study, take advantage of it!

Answer 5

each family is different.. One of the main reasons for homeschooling..

we get up about 6-7am we eat breakfast and do our morning chores.. By 9 I like to have the kids working on school work.. We have a set amount of work for the day.. On a good day its done by lunch.. We dont put time limits on things, but more of time guidelines.. When the child has been working on a particular subject for a while and gets frustrated we change topics.. We also get into a lesson and get sidetracked.. I have learned to do the "less fun" subjects in the morning and the one the kids love to do in the afternoon..

Answer 6

I don't use a schedule. I use a lesson planner. For each day, I just write in the list of subjects to be covered, like this:

Bible: Matthew 5:1-7 (We memorize large portions, one verse a day, so tomorrow would be Matthew 5:1-8)
Math: Lesson 58
Reading: Chapter 14. Write a paragraph summary
Grammar: Exercises, page l76&177
Spelling: Ten sentences from list on pg 33
History: Discussion questions 3, 4 and 5, pg 84. Use complete sentences.
Science: Assemble materials for experiment on pg 92. Write your hypothesis for how you think it will turn out.

I usually have the kids doing six or seven things each day, but not every subject is done every day; only Bible, math, reading and English are nes we do every day. course, each child's lesson plan looks totally different. One child may be doing penmanship and another may be starting biology. One child may memorize easily and another can only do half as much. One may beg to spend hours reading or cooking or sewing or building things. So you adapt to cover the basics with everyone, while encouraging all to spend lots of time on things that delight them. It takes mine at least five hours to do the required work, and then they do other stuff. My youngest two are the only ones left, and they are avid gymnasts, so we spend 3 hours a day, four days a week at the gym. But others did piano, sewing, writing, had good jobs, played basketball, and tons of other stuff. They could never do the really good stuff if they were in school every day and then had tons of homework, besides.

The beauty of the lesson plan is that the child knows that when the assignments are done, corrected and signed off by you, he/she is done. And no whining, "Do we have to do math, today?" It is all written down, and if the child wastes a lot of time, then there is no time for play, TV, hobbies, etc. But, if he/she gets busy and works diligently, there may be a whole afternoon of leisure opportunities stretching out ahead. It will take some experimenting to find out what is the right amount of work for each of your children, but I usually just roughly divide up the material into enough lessons to fill the year. (For instance, our school year has 180 days, approx. and the math book has 140 lessons. So, in about 4 or 5 years, we're a year ahead in math.) But for history, I may divide it into parts so that we only do history every other day. We may even skip some parts. Have fun with it, and allow yourself to make some mistakes.

Answer 7

Like Roslynn, we unschool and are very flexible about when we learn...or more to the point, we are ALWAYS learning. Part of the bliss of homeschooling is knowing that every moment is a learning moment, and you aren't restricted by doing subjects at x am, and then must be done by y am.

Anyway, in our family, most of us get up early and do tae bo together around 6:30 am, so that we can all sit and eat breakfast with my husband before he walks to work. Two of the kids usually sleep a little later, since they are up later to work on personal projects in the relative quiet of the house after bedtime. We work together to get the dishes done and room tidied then we all split up. Most of the younger kids have free time around our fun trips (we don't call them field trips any longer) and around chore times, they are ages 3, 5, 7, and 8. They play games together, read, whatever they are interested in. My nine year old likes to have me sit with her and do workbooks, and the subject depends on what she's interested in, so lately it's math and social studies (mapping, ordinals, etc)

My oldest is twelve and has more self-obligations (scouts and band), so he has a list of things to do, in order of importance. There is no time frame on it, since they are all important to HIM, then I don't have to require him to do any of it. He usually spends the morning researching on the internet and reading, and then the afternoons practicing the trumpet and building his projects. Some days he'll spend an entire day researching...like Saturday he spent five hours reading the history of child soldiers and what organizations are working on them. Today he's just spent four hours designing and building an old-fashioned rope maker.

He says as he gets older, he will start a classical education, around age 14 in preparation for college. When we were doing school-at-home (age 11) though, he was tearing through all of his work in less than two hours a day, 20 minutes for algebra, half an hour for literature, similar time frames for science and history.

Answer 8

My kids wake when they wake, meaning that they get up whenever their body tells them it is time. :) I have one that is almost always up at 7 or 730 and the rest are up by 9. We don't sit down to "do" school at any certain time of the day. We let the day adn the flow of our life dictate what we will do and how. If we have events to go to, we work around that. If we plan on shopping, we work around that. Homeschooling is fit into our day and treated like a natural event that is part of the entire day. The kids are all in bed sleeping anywhere from 9 pm to 10 pm each night.

Answer 9

i'm not a homeschooling mom, but i am homeschooled. i am usually out of bed at 7 and we usually start between 8 or 8:30. my 6 year old sister usually gets her stuff done before lunch, or right after it. my 9 year old sister usually goes till about 2, and i am 13 and pretty much in high school and i am usually done between 3-4 depending if i have projects, or papers, or speeches for my outclasses that i take.

Answer 10

MY children are all up by 8:30. we eat brakfast and are ready to start by 9:30 or 10. we don't have a strict schedule per say but each child does math,reading,science,writing and language work each day. they pick what they want to start with and they continue at their own pace since all 5 of them are in different grades and work at different paces. we have lunch at 1 and then they finish up and usually done by 3 unless we have a distracrtion or are taking a field trip. I would suggest having your childern take outside classes on top of you are teaching so they have social outlets and make friends. Good Luck!