What Homeschool Curriculum do you use and how is you daily schedule!?

Question

I am just Curious what age are the kids? Does it work really well? What grade level are you at? Add details!
We use Life pac For Bible and Health
Rod and Staff For Reading Math English Science and Spelling!
and For history We are doing the old Missouri History book!
Art We use A reason For art Pack #4
And Home ec The Christian Life Home Economics!

and How does you scedule go
Are is like this
Bible
Science
Math
English
Lunch
Reading
History
spelling
Art
Home ec on thursdays!

Answer 1

We don't use any specific homeschool curriculum--it's a mish mash of different things. I don't even have a specific curriculum for certain subjects.

As for schedule, it's like this:

Up around 7.
Have breakfast, get dressed and all that. Maybe have a bit of story time.
Get working by 8:30. Work can include: reading, writing, math, science, social studies, art, etc.
Break for lunch.
Our afternoons are never the same: we're out at least once a week, often 3 times. When we are home, we might do some schooly stuff, or they may just have free time to play outside or play games or help me bake something...

My kids are only 6 and 9. I doubt this'll be the same routine in 3 years time!

Answer 2

I have been home schooling my son (8) for almost 3 years. I am in Toronto.

I also use a "mish mash" of curriculum: Singapore Math, Language Arts from the caribbean, etc. I use what I like best for each individual subject.

We are late risers, so school starts anywhere between 10 and 12. School ends when it ends. No set time.

MY HOME SCHOOL DAILY SCHEDULE

*I use the day 1-5 system except for Sat. and Sun.

DAY 1
Religious studies
Math
Language Arts: Reading Comprehension
Typing

DAY 2
Religious studies
Math
Language Arts: Grammar/Spelling
Social Studies

DAY 3
Religious studies
Math
Language Arts: Penmanship
Typing

DAY 4
Religious studies
Math
Language Arts: Reading Comprehension
French

DAY 5
Religious studies
Math
Language Arts: Creative Writing
Sign Language

SATURDAY
Science/Health (My husband teaches this)
Typing

SUNDAY
Blog/Web site (I recently created a web site for my son)

Answer 3

I am home schooled on A.C.E. and I love it. I start at 8:00 or earlier. I do my work books in different orders. I do Math, English, Science, Social Studies (History), Word Building (Spelling), Literature and Creative Writing, Successful Living, and New Testament Survey. I will also be doing Speech, Home Economics, Future Kids (Computer Course), and Nutrition Science. I really enjoy it. It is a Christian curriculum. By the way I live in England, an 13, and I have two sisters and a brother.

Answer 4

We don't buy a curriculum, we make our own.

Our day is like this for my 6 and 8 yr old:

Every morning, year round, we eat breakfast and they work on "skills practice." That's math, phonics/language arts, writing, spelling & reading. We use workbooks we pick up at book stores & dollar stores, worksheets printed off the internet or old school textbooks we've collected over the years. This can last 30 minutes to maybe up to 2 hrs, varying each day with how quick they work, or how much I go over with them individually.

They move on to their units, which are unstructured. They pick their own topics (sometimes they work on one together), the subject usually social studies (history, cultural studies, geography, current events, etc), or science. They read books, or magazines, or do research on the internet or at the library, they can make charts, diagrams, answer questions, write papers, make posters, projects, exhibits, do experiments, play computer games, watch educational videos, plan presentations or festivals, plan field trips, etc.-- basically, they can explore the topic however they want, they just need to be learning and produce something. They'll usually do this up till lunch, sometimes going back to it a bit after lunch, or even in the evening.

On Thursdays they usually go to homeschool co-op classes, there are 4 periods plus a lunch/recess period. Sessions run 14 weeks in the fall and 14 weeks in the summer. They have taken all kinds of classes-- art, photography, lego engineering, science, chemistry, yoga. Who knows what turns up for this next session-- my youngest (6) is intent on taking ballroom dancing and my 8 yr old is hoping they teach robotics again so he can take it.

On Sundays there is UU church and Sunday school.

We have other activities we go to weekly or monthly: wood shop, Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments, library reading group, chess club, museum visits where we have memberships, etc. We go out somewhere just about every afternoon, or we go to the park.

My 16 yr old takes college courses, and is studying math independantly to prepare for her GED. She volunteers at the library and our homeschool group. She writes A LOT, reads even more, and persues her passion for theater, both on stage and off stage.

Answer 5

We use a variety of different curriculum, finding what works for each child and adjusting where necessary. We dont have a set schedule. My older dd attends a virtual highschool through a university and my younger dd has a checklist each week with everything she needs to accomplish. We tried schedules and they just didnt work for us.