What is your homeschooling schedule for a typical day?

Question

And are you a stay at home parent?

Answer 1

Yes, I'm a SAHM. We don't have typical days around here because we do modified block scheduling. We also have many activities outside the home, so every weekday looks a bit differently. Also, my DH, who is employed, does Algebra with our DS in the evenings, and science on the weekends.

However, this is how our typical *week* looks:

* Monday:

Algebra - 1 lesson
Literature - ~4 lessons
Spelling - pre-test & 1 practice lesson
History - 2-6 lessons
Track practice

* Tuesday

Algebra - 1 lesson
Grammar - ~4 lessons
Spelling - 1 practice lesson
Art - ~3 lessons
Track practice
Scout pack meeting

* Wednesday

Algebra - 1 lesson
Composition - 1 lesson
Spelling - 1 practice lesson
Music - 4 lessons
Track practice

* Thursday

Algebra - 1 lesson
Vocabulary/Analogies - ~4 lessons
Spelling - 1 practice lesson
Track meet
Scout den meeting

* Friday

Algebra - 1 lesson
Homeschool co-op - 3 hours
(classes vary from Math Club, Science Club, Karate, Chess....and others)

* Saturday

Science - 2 lessons (DH)

Filtered in there we also have many field trips and other classes (zoo, science center, etc). My son also does a lot of independent study. Our formal schoolwork takes about two hours a day. We school year-round also.

Answer 2

There is no typical day. Every family is different. It depends upon the number of children, the type of homeschoolers you are, whether a curriculum is being used or whether you are unschooling. A public school meets for six hours, but at home there is no need to take that long as there aren't kids messing about, holding things up because they don't get it, shuffling from class to class, so there's no need to spend that much time in direct instruction. There's such value in playing games, reading together, exploring an interest as long as it holds interest, learning what you're interested in rather than what someone else deems interesting. So there just isn't a typical day. Sometimes we read most of the day, sometimes, we do a lot of art projects, sometimes we take a day and go to the park when no one else is about, but we have great conversations about what was in the paper.

Answer 3

I am not a stay at home parent, but I live with my dad who is retired. So My son is not home alone all day. To be honest, I'm not sure what his daily routine is. As long as he gets his work done, I don't care what he does. Right now my dad and I are doing some home remodeling, so my son is getting some hands on experience with that. I do know that my son spends more time outside than he did when he went to public school. He hated gym class, but now he gets more exercises because he's always riding his bike or doing yard work. He loves to rake and water the flowers. I do know that he is not on the computer all day or watching t.v. or playing video games. This is the first year that I home schooled my son, so we are both learning. But one thing I learned is that he does better when I give a weeks' worth of work to do and tell him he has to have it done by Friday or we don't go anywhere on Saturday. I'm not sure if this answered your question or not. I hope it helped a little.
I should add that my son will be 14 in July. He is currently in the 8th grade. I work 9-4 everyday so I am home in the evening if he needs help with any of his work. Also, he can ask my dad for help.

Answer 4

My wife is a stay at home mom, and I work...she has her own business at home.

Schedule for the homeschoolers in my house is totally fluid. They are night owls, so they are up until 1 or so every day if we let them. School takes place shortly after they arise. It can take several hours, or just one or two, depending on the day. My son teaches martial arts at a local school, so he works that into the schedule. The bottom line is, there isn't a TYPICAL day, so no typical schedule.

Answer 5

My son is in high school so I can work and still homeschool him.
DAILY SCHEDULE (Monday - Friday)

8:00 - Get up, dressed, and make bed
8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Cleanup
9:15 - 9:55 - Language Arts (Reading, writing, spelling, composition, etc.)
9:55 - break
10:00 - 10:40 - Math
10:40 - break
10:45 - 11:25 - History
11:25 - 12noon - lunch (prepare, eat and cleanup)
12noon - 12:40 - Science
12:40- 1:00 - break
1:00 - 2:00 - local gym for P.E.
2:30 - 3:30 - finish any incomplete work
4:30 - 5:30 - chores, prepare for dinner
5:30 - dinner

Answer 6

Yes, I am a stay-at-home parent. In the past I have worked part-time away from home -- it is not the best way to go. Home-schooling works better when the days are predictable. I now have a building contractor's bookkeeping office at my own home. I can work while my students work. Three are finished with schooling --- one is still at home. He can do his own work while I do mine. We use a self-teaching plan that requires very minimal *help* -- the student learns how to think things through from start to finish and becomes very capable of studying material and mastering it without aid.

Morning chores
Breakfast
Math -- one lesson; complete, corrected, understood -- all equations and new concept mastered
Writing -- one full page --- size of print or cursive depends on the ability of the student; sometimes this is copywork from the best of books; othertimes it is free-writing --- usually a thoughtful and well-planned essay.
Reading --- 2 hours or more from the best of classic literature, historical fiction, autobiographies, etc.

Lunch usually fits in during reading time.

The remainder of the afternoon is filled with jobs at home, money making projects, outside employment, science projects, gardening, taking care of pigs, chickens, and dogs, baseball, team-frisbee, horses, 4-H, friends, grandparents, field-trips, etcetera, etc., etc.

Answer 7

Typical days vary greatly here. I am a stay at home parent, but I baby sit 3 or 4 preschoolers during the day and home school my kids, 15 and 10.
6:30 me up and get ready, quiet time
7:30 Preschoolers arrive
8:00 wake up my girls - breakfast and get ready
9:00 my girls do Bible/ quiet time
9:30 math
10:30 language arts
11:30 Spanish
12:00 lunch and break
1:00 science or history
2:00 arts, music, reading
3:00 physical activity
4:00 outside activities
7:00 dinner
From 4:00 on varies greatly each day. We have many different activities. Civil Air Patrol, Dance, swimming, running, volunteering, church activities, ect.

A book that really has helped me is "Managers of Their Homes" by Teri Maxwell. It helps set up a schedule.
www.titus2.com

Hope this helps!

Answer 8

Wake up when we get up. We have breakfast, get dressed, make beds, tend to hygiene. Then we read books and draw. Then we do math, then science, then social studies. Then lunch. After that, they go outside for at least an hour for exercise. Then the kids can do pretty much what they want for the rest of the day...read books, play on the computer, that kind of thing. The afternoons and evenings are sometimes spent in their clubs and teams, field trips. Oh, and I'm a SAHM.

Answer 9

I work, but I am a freelance writer/photographer so my hours vary because I work as we anticipate we'll need the extra money. Sometimes I work full time with overtime for a few weeks, sometimes I work less than part-time for months, sometimes I take a couple of months off altogether, like this summer.

Plus, my husband works the graveyard shift, so needless to say, our schedule's vary because of this.

For my younger boys, it's like this: For Mon, Wed, Fri, & Saturdays:

We're not chronic early risers-- usually out of bed between 7 and 9 am when I'm not working. If the kids get up early they just have some cereal and play video games till I'm up. When I am working, the day will proceed with their sister, father or grandmother instead of me.

After I get my coffee I tell them to get their books and worksheets and we go over some basic skills practice-- math, language arts, reading, etc.,-- an hour or so-- sometimes, if she's home, their big sister helps with this, or works with one boy while I work with the other. Sometimes they'll go over Grandma's house and she'll work with them on whatever I send.

Then we do some social studies or science unit projects for an hour or so. Right now we're working on space. We usually do some chores before a late lunch & take turns showering.

Afternoons are our outting times and see our friends. Some days me or their dad will take them to the park or the pool (we live where you can swim year-round), some days museums or botanic gardens, sometimes after-school classes or lessons (this changes seasonally). Sometimes we just go hang out at Chuck E. Cheese. Some days we go on photo excursions to parks or historic landmarks in neighboring counties or downtown. Some days it's the library for chess club, board game day, or group reading events.

We come home, usually cook together, we tend to eat a late dinner (around 8pm), have a big clean-up time. We then do arts & crafts, or the boys play video games, or we'll go see a show or a movie, or if it's nice we'll go out again to the pool or park again for a bit.

Thursdays we have a co-op where the boys take classes, mostly taught by qualified professionals (science, chemistry, art, engineering, yoga, dancing, I teach photography) and some taught by other enthusiastic parents (learning games class, things like that).

Tuesdays is usually left for big errands and heavy cleaning like laundry and grocery shopping and everyone pitches in, or the kids do independant projects they're interest in, then we usually veg out Tues nights with frozen pizza and watch movies.

Sundays we go to church & the boys have Sunday school, then we go to the park, to Grandmas for dinner, and sometimes we work on some skills practice stuff.

We don't have a set bedtime, really, nights are more quiet time.

We also don't have set reading times because we all read on and off throughout the day, no one needs any prompting. Many times we read books together and read aloud

My daughter is almost 17 so her schedule is different-- these days she works independently on her math for her SATs she's taking in a couple of months, she takes courses at the local community college through a program, she writes a lot-- A LOT (wish I was so prolific)-- she also reads voraciously. She messes around on the internet a bit, talks on the phone with her friends at night, she volunteers in our co-op on Thursdays as a teachers helper and will be teaching her first class (sign language) this fall. She and I love to sit and discuss literature or theater in the morning over coffee when she's home or once the boys go to bed, and we're always looking for bargain shows to see, then we go for coffee and discuss it. She spends a lot of time with her brothers, too, helping them learn or taking them out so I can get some work done.

I guess we aren't "typical" but there you have it.

MSB

Answer 10

WEEKENDS