You might wonder what a homeschool day is like at our house.  Well, when everyone cooperates and no unplanned surprises happen, this is how our day might happen.  Now remember, this doesn't happen all the time. 

I wake up between 6:30 am and 6:45 am.  I am still struggling with this.  I'm not a late sleeper, nor an early riser, but rather in the middle (7:30ish).  I stagger into the kitchen to prepare my husband's lunch.  He leaves for work at 7am.  I then throw in a load of laundry to be washed.  Then I have my quiet time.  A hard thing to do when the kids are up, so waking early has it benefits. 

I wake the kids at 8 am.  They do their morning routine which includes making their beds, getting dressed, pick up their room and brush their teeth.  The older ones have their quiet time.  I put the laundry in the dryer.  At 8:30 we sit down for breakfast and morning devotions.  I read the Bible to them while they eat.

When our Bible time is over, we go right into our KONOS unit study.  This is one thing that we all do together.  I can spend up to an hour with this part of our day, depending on the activities for the day.  Sometimes we might do some of the more involved activities in the afternoon.

By 10 am the kids are ready to do the 3 R's.  My oldest son does his work in his room.  I work with the other three at the kitchen table.  The youngest does some type of ABC workbook (nothing hard).  My middle son will do his writing.  The I read with him and do his math.  My daughter spends time on the computer doing her learning games.  In between all of this I help my oldest when he needs me.  After the younger boys are finished, I do math with the oldest.  About 3 times a week, I try to do a craft with the younger boys and my daughter.  They really enjoy that! 

Just before noon, I'll prepare lunch.  By noon everyone is finished with their individual work.  I've spent individual time with each of them.  The kids sit down for lunch while I read to them.  Right now we are reading The Swiss Family Robinson.  What a great book!  We read until around 1pm.

If there is any KONOS activities to do, we will complete them now.  If we are finished, the kids will have some outdoor time.  While it's hot, they go in the pool.  They spend about an hour outside (or in the pool). 

When they come in, they will do their scheduled chores (which take about 15 min.).  The house stays so much cleaner when we do a little each day.  It's amazing what 15 minutes does to the house!

The older two boys practice piano.  I am teaching them so on Mondays I give them a lesson.

Then when chores and piano are done,  they are free to watch a video or play video games.  I limit it to an hour a day.  I take a much needed rest at this time.

That's about how our day goes.  There are days when we have outside activities.  On Mondays the kids have PE during the morning, and we will do some 3R's in the afternoons.  Our KONOS co-op is Thursday mornings and that is our school for the day.  And Friday afternoon is drama, which doesn't effect our morning.

So that's our basic schedule for the day.  I will talk about scheduling on another post.  But one word of advice is not to let the schedule control you!   

Enjoy homeschooling!    

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