A Typical Homeschool Day?
By admin on Jan 29, 2008 in Homeschool
The is no such thing as a typical homeschool day; each is as unique as the individual family. Below is a list of homeschoolers with children of various ages, family size from two to 14, a variety of curricula, and many different teaching philosophies. We homeschoolers are an interesting bunch!
Sample Homeschool Days
- Unplanned Delight-Directed Day – Most of my children are grown now. This is a sample day with my youngest sons now ages 6 and 8. We traveled off on several bunny trails but had a fun time documenting the day in scrapbook pages.
- Sherry @ Large Family Mothering shares her day teaching 14 children. Nutshell: “…we spend up to two hours a day in Bible study…We sit and talk for hours, sometimes we end up praying, other times we laugh ourselves silly….None of this is scripted, some of it is planned, if we try something and don’t like it or don’t have time for it, we scrap it.”
- Belinda @ Lifestyle Homeschool is an eclectic homeschooler teaching four children ages 14, 13, 10 and 8 in Australia. This family is moving away from a structured system and focusing on goals and passions of their family, without the need for curriculum or sitting at a desk.
- Momof5 @ My Life and Homeschool gives an overview of a school day with five children ages 2 to 16 with chores and school work.
- Ann’Re @ Ann’Re Home begins with Bible first (kudos) then math, reading, spelling, penmanship and journaling, break time, chores, reading aloud, and then they alternate science and art.
- The Woons Video - Watch a YouTube video of a homeschool day. Check out the comments. The first one asks “What do you do about socialization?”
- Kristine @ Mama Archer is a classical Christian full quiver homeschooler (with a baby) teaching grades: preschool, K, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 11. This post lists the curriculum they are using for each grade.
- Christine @ Fruit in Season has four little ones ages 7, 5, 2, and 8 months. She gives snippets of their busy day from wake-up time to bedtime in time increments.
- Rachael @ Keep the Way gives an honest look at the difference between her planned day and real day teaching two preschoolers.
- how she is now teaching them. She’s not sure of next year’s plans or if she should be calling herself a homeschooler but I see a homeschool heart all over her blog.
- Carole @ My Heart’s Desire explains a sample day with three little ladies (ages 9, 8 and 2) and a new son.
- Nancy @ TOS Company Porch shares a laid back unschooler day with four children ages 16, 13, 11 and 9. See Nancy’s Homeschooling is Life blog.
- Laurua @ Laura William’s Musings – The key to Laura’s homeschool day is organization and having a schedule…. without these, her house doesn’t run very smoothly. Laura gives an hour by hour schedule of school and housework.
- Susan @ Kerugma post a dairy of her reading aloud school day and compares it with a non reading day in this post.
- Tammy Glaser @ Aut-2B Home in Carolina wrote a post titled Messy Days on dealing with unexpected, unplanned disruptions. With a little bit of thought and flexibility, she manages to stick with the plan of the day. Read to find out how.
- I wrote a fictional Delight-directed learning, school day in answer to how to teach multiple ages with Heart of Wisdom unit studies. It begins by allowing children to be a part of the planning process.
P.S. Have you visited my Heart at Home homemaking blog? This morning I posted photos of Decluttering My Pantry for Tackle it Tuesday.
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Great idea!
The last time I did a Diary Day was in Sept, 07. You can find it here:
http://kerugma.net/blog/?p=213
but I felt the need to journal another day, so I did and it can be viewed here:
http://kerugma.net/blog/?p=254
Regards,
Susan
I blogged the day with unplanned schedule blowers, and how we adapted.
http://aut2bhomeincarolina.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-to-do-on-messy-days.html
How fun..I love looking in at others homeschool days!!! I read your book a few months ago and WOW!!! I loved it!! I was trying to do the “classical” thing before and it just wasn’t settling right with me.. When I read your book I knew why..thank you so much for all the great info!!!
this is a great idea, thanks for linking to me!!
Hey,
Here is a sample day from last semester, but even now I have a new reality.:)
http://kimber64.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/reality-check/
Thanks for posting these! They look great!
Sorry I did not get back to you in time with my contribution.
Thanks for posting my schedule. I love your blog!
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I’m just loving your site! We keep the Hebrew dates for observing the Holy Days on God’s calendar rather than our modern calendar’s festivals. I have not been so bold as to state too much of our beliefs anywhere yet, but I’ve been raised this way since I was 8 and now teach our children through all we do.
So … I was sidetracking from your post (sorry) … I’m quite new to blogging, but have listed our curriculum used this year (2008) for both children, plus I’ll be writing regular entries on daily learning activities, bird/nature watching, homemaking …. lots of things to share and also let relatives (some who also homeschool, some who don’t) keep up to date with activities in our lives.
Right now I’m just chuffed to find YOUR blog! I look forward to reading more …. LOTS more!
I just posted my typical day I LOVED reading all these and got some great ideas for setting my schedule!
forgot to leave my link
http://sonotasupermom.blogspot.com/2009/01/homeschooling.html
@heartofwisdom RT Typical homeschoolers day http://tinyurl.com/7fbn26 Didn’t gel w 1st born but may w/ dghter
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I am homeschooling 1 child and he will be in first grade this year. I am wondering how long a day is “typically” for one child. Your opinions and insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Here’s my little blog post about our days…http://sproutschoolhouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/never-extra-ordinary-day.html
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