I recently tweaked our schedule, so thought I would share it with you.  I have been using one version or another of my schedule for about a year and a half now, so it works well for us.  Your schedule will likely look much different.  I have noticed that among homeschooling moms.  Some would go absolutely crazy at my lack of exact clock times, but for me, I shut down if I have missed the clock time, and then we do not do school at all, so it works better for me to just have time goals, or benchmarks in my day.

6-7am  Somewhere in there, I get up, the earlier the better.  I walk up the hill to see the farmer’s cows and pray for my family while walking.  I come back to read my Bible in what is still hopefully a quiet and sleeping house.

Around 7:30 or so, I start being noisy (laundry, dishes, making breakfast, playing music), so the kids will wake up.

By 8, I hope to see everyone up and moving.  In this hour, I want the children (ages 11, 9, 6, 3 – boy, girl, boy, girl) dressed, eating breakfast, teeth brushed, and morning routines done.  Meanwhile, I work on breakfast, getting the toddler dressed and ready, and my own morning routine.

By 9, I want us in the school room, ready.

1. Personal Journals, Copywork (a verse or quote I have ready on the chalkboard), and Math.   Phonics with the 6yo (sometimes I teach him; sometimes his older siblings teach him). I help them with math one by one, as the others write.
2. Heart of Wisdom unit study (currently Creation). We read from the unit study, from the Bible, a selected book, and sometimes do an activity. 
3. Scripture reading.  We are reading through the Bible together.  After the reading, I select a verse to put on the chalkboard. The children copy a related verse in their Bible Journals, and then draw a picture or write about what we read.
4. Hebrew:  we aim to learn 6 new words per day.
5. Memory Work:  we all say the poetry, Scripture, quote, etc. out loud that we are attempting to memorize.

After all of this, the children sit on stools at the bar in the kitchen and have a laid-out snack while I read a literature selection at an younger level.

Around 11ish, we concentrate on:

            Mondays:  Practical Skills

            Tuesdays:  Art, Music, and Shakespeare

            Wednesdays:  Nature Studies and Poetry

            Thursdays:  Science (and Library Day)

            Fridays:  Independent Research Day (a.k.a. Notebooking from selections picked up at the library on topic of choice)

Just before lunch and while I am making it, the children learn 6 new words of Spanish and review old ones.

Lunch:  always something easy and quick.  During lunch, I read a literature selection from an older level.

Quick pickup of the house, especially the school room.

1pm or so, Quiet Time :  an hour of absolute quiet (this hour is vital to my sanity!).  For the older two, quiet time needs to include reading from an assigned book.  I usually assign 1 chapter or several pages; not too much. 

Quiet time choices (even for me.  NO chores allowed!):

            Nap

            Write

            Art (nothing messy)

            Read

            Notebooking

2pm or so, Quiet Time is over (but may be continued alone) and free play is allowed.  No electronics (t.v. or computer) yet.  Afternoon activity choices:

            Playing with friends

            Free play

            Swimming and fishing

            Science experiments

            Nature walk

            Play with the animals

            Art

            Family business

            Crafting

            Gardening

Ideally, around 4pm, I would like to have a Tea Time for character training and etiquette.  We are usually too wrapped up in our projects to do Tea Time, but I hope to add it.

4:45pm  I get myself into the kitchen to start dinner or we will eat tooooo late again.  I always encourage the children to help in the kitchen. I hope to train myself out of a job.  The children are naturally drawn to the kitchen to watch me make supper, so I also have this time written down as Musical Instrument Practice time. 

And then is dinner, evening routines, and an hour of Family Time (games, projects, movie, or a time to show Daddy what we’ve learned through a play or a mini concert). 

At bedtime, my husband or I read again to the children.  (Yes, I do quite a lot of reading aloud but I love books!)

by Lori Seaborg 2006

Posted by Tiany

Great post, thanks for sharing!
I love to glean tidbits from other Homeschoolers schedules~~~ so fun!

Posted by ReneeM

How do you do it, girl?? It sounds so... organized... something I could do, except don't manage to! I think its because every day is too different, so I am trying to get our mornings consistent at least, so we can have a routine!!

If you think of it, could you pray for my dad? They found tumors in his eye... which they had thought was related to the skin cancer which was showing up in bone, etc... BUT its different and is agressive. We are praying for complete healing!!

Thanks.

Posted by DandelionSeeds

Looks great... I'm just learning that by not having exact times, I do better and feel less stressed!

In Him,
Amy

Posted by hsmomof2

I like your daily routine/schedule. I also don't put times down on our daily routine. If we get wrapped up in something I want to be able to continue. Also, things happen sometimes that might get us off schedule, but don't have to get us out of our routine.

Posted by momma2aejsk

I'm tagging you for homeschooling resources! Please pop by my blog for the questions and to let me know when your answers are up so I can come by and read them (if you don't want to, NO Pressure!!!)

Thanks,
Samantha

Posted by SkyBlue

I bounced over from AO, and want to applaud you for your on-task daily routines. :) I had to chuckle, with 4 of my own, (11 the oldest!) your day(s) is VERY similar to ours. :)

Posted by butterflyschoolmom

Hey there,
I see that you posted this schedule awhile back but I am just now reading it. ;o)

Your schedule sounds so fun. I have times written down on our schedule but it is mainly a guide and I don't worry about being exact. That would drive me CRAZY-- and probably everyone else around here too!

I hope you all are having a wonderful school year.
I loved your blog!

Lori

Posted by Anonymous

how do you handle math?

Posted by edgeofinsanity

Thanks for blogging your daily schedule. This is our first year of official homeschooling (K and an 18 month old) and I love to see other peoples schedules, to see what works for them, as we are trying to figure out what works for us. Your blog is so helpful!