Our Homeschool Schedule This Year
When I mentioned in the summer that we were planning to homeschool this year and specifically that my KIDS had been the ones who requested we homeschool, the biggest question was WHY my kids wanted to homeschool.
They all said they wanted to homeschool because we could get through a lot more material in a lot less time (and as someone who grew up homeschooled and then went to public school in high school, I can attest that this is true).
Here’s what our homeschool schedule looks like this year:
Our Homeschool Schedule This Year
7:00 a.m. Language Tutoring. We hired one of Ella’s favorite former teachers to do language tutoring for the 3 younger girls 4 mornings a week. Each girl has a 1:1 day and then they do a group day on the 4th day.
If they don’t have language that morning, they normally get up around 7:30 and get ready for the day, have breakfast and I do their hair.
8:30 a.m. Savvy Math for Tally. While everyone else finishes getting ready, Tally has her Savvy class until 8:55.
9:00 a.m. Morning meeting. This is with all four girls and me. We gather in the living room and kick off with journaling (which takes usually about 5-8 minutes) and then spend the rest of the 30 minutes alternating between poetry and art history each week (I pick a poet or an artist for the week, we read a few picture books about them and then the girls choose a couple of poems to memorize for the next two week period). If there is any extra time, we do picture book read alouds.
On our history days, we do history immediately after this (more details about history in this post about what curriculum we’re using).
After this, the girls have either 2 or 2.5 hours of individual work. I work in my office during this time and the girls are in the living room and dining room (which are right by my office so I’m available if they need me). This is the time they do all their school work that doesn’t require me to be there with them – penmanship, piano practice, spelling, typing, language arts, math, etc. The two little girls also have their Savvy Reading and Math classes during this block of time. The girls use the charts in the photo above to keep track of what they need to get done.
On the alternate days from history, Bart does Geography with the girls and he’ll come up from his office and do that with them in the living room while I keep working.
12:00 p.m. Family reading time. We end our school day with 30 minutes of individual silent reading time (me included!) and then have lunch as a family.
Afternoon classes. In the afternoons we have science classes, music lessons, art classes, and the two big girls do math with Bart’s mom at her house.
On Fridays, we don’t have school although the girls can finish anything up they didn’t get to during the week if needed. We often go on an outdoor adventure/picnic lunch with other friends in the neighborhood (affectionately called “Nature Study”).
