homeschooling: Day in the Life of a homeschooling family

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Day in the Life of a homeschooling family

Family: Faith is 10, Mercy 8 and Hope 1. Tim, the dad, works at home.

7:30 a.m.::Wake up and start morning routine. Kids -- make beds, get dressed, make/eat breakfast, unload dishwasher, clean up breakfast dishes, brush teeth; Mom -- showers, brushes teeth, changes baby, eats breakfast, loads dishwasher, makes bottles, feeds baby.

8 a.m.: Kids --collect and sort all laundry.

8:15 a.m.: Mom --starts load of laundry

8:30 a.m.: Mom -- makes doctor appointment for baby and cleans kitchen counters and clears out refrigerator. Kids -- practice piano and keyboard then complete theory book assignments.

8:50 a.m.: Mom -- reads emails and news.

9:15 a.m.: Mom -- reviews with the girls long division from last week and answer questions; assigns word problems and more exercises; plays with the baby and reads her a book; focuses on new signs; chhanges out a load of laundry.

10 a.m: . Mom - calls her mother to work out childcare for the baby's doctor's appointment.

10:10 a.m.: Mom -- rotates out baby toys from those in storage.

10:12 a.m.: Mom -- chases girls back to math.

10:15 a.m.: Mom -- vacuums and cleans dining room

10:25 a.m.: Mom--- unloads towels, starts whites, finds out why baby is screaming, chases girls back to math.

10:45 a.m.: Kids- put away math, fold and put away towels and start handwriting. Mercy copies a poem and Faith starts a story. Mom - looks through freezer, decides to make Shepherd's Pie for dinner, starts thawing hamburger, turns on Rush Limbaugh while baby plays with the Tupperware all over the kitchen floor.

10:47 a.m. Mom - picks up baby, who is throwing a fit; changes diaper.

10:48 a.m.: Mom -- gets veggies for dinner out of pantry and fridge. Realizes we're out of potatoes and has Dad pick them up on his way home from lunch.

10:49 a.m.: Mom - looks at girls' handwriting in progress and point out things to focus on.

11:05 a.m.: Mom - plays with baby then changes her.

11:16 a.m.: Mom -- starts cooking pasta for lunch.

11:19 a.m.: Mom -- edits Faith's story, noting spelling errors and sentence fragments.

11:22 a.m.: Mom - finds out why baby is screaming at Mercy; chases baby out of forbidden cabinets and starst the girls on Deductive Logic assignments. They solve them by charting the information.

11:30 a.m. Mom - drains the pasta.

11:40 a.m. Kids -- finish chapter on analogy classifications.

11:55 a.m.: Mom-- finishes making pasta salad and everyone eats lunch.

12:05 p.m. Mom -- changesout loads of laundry. Kids-- put away laundry and unload dishwasher.

12:09 p.m.: Mom -- retrieves and soothes screaming baby who closed herself in the laundry room and laid down in front of the door.

12:15 p.m.:Faith -- looks up misspelled words in the dictionary then reads The Spartan by Snedeker while Mercy reads Junie B. Jones quietly. Mom- warmsa bottle for the baby and rocks her to sleep upstairs.

12:45 p.m.: Mom -- changes out loads of laundry. Girls --put away laundry.

12:55 p.m.: Mom -- reads aloud the last chapter from The Ancient Greece of Odysseus by Connolly and reads aloud the Ancient Greece by Nicholson and discuss.

1:45 p.m.: Mom - rocks the baby back to sleep and has the girls go solve logic puzzles from Zoombinis Logical Journey on their computers for about half an hour.

2 p.m. - Mom -- plans school for tomorrow, and looks over the girls' math assignments. Note how sloppiness led to a few errors. Discusses that with them tomorrow during math.

2:30 p.m.: Mom-- wakes and changes the baby. Plays with and reads to the baby.

3 p.m.: Mom- starts to chop onions and carrots, press garlic, slice potatoes and soak in salt water. Girls -- clean their bathroom upstairs, counters, tub, mirror, blinds, vacuum, mop, bring down rugs and towels for washing.

3:15 p.m.: Mom -- changes out loads of laundry, resumes veggie prep.

3:30 p.m. Mom -- warms bottle for the baby, cleans kitchen counters, loads dishwasher.

3:45 p.m. Mom -- checks e-mails and retrieves screaming baby who has climbed into her toy box and is stuck.

3:55 p.m.:Mom -- changes baby and reads her a book.

4:05 p.m. Mom -- inspects the bathroom and tells the girls what a great job they did. Have the girls put away cleaning supplies. Girls -- have free time to do what they like.

4:07 p.m.: Mom-- starts cleaning living room, puts toys away and vacuums.

4:10 p.m.: Mom - changes out loads of laundry. Girls - put away laundry.

4:20 p.m: Girls -- play with neighbor kid upstairs. Mom -- plays with baby.

5 p.m.: Mom -- starts cooking dinner while Tim plays with the baby. Browns ground beef, sets potatoes to boil, sautés veggies, makes reux, mashes potatoes and assembles Shepherd's pie.

5:30 p.m.: Mom- hangs out with my husband and the baby while Shepherd's Pie bakes.

6 p.m.: Nighbor kid goes home and girls set table. We eat dinner.

6:25 p.m.: Girls - clear the table.

6:40 p.m.: Mom -- More laundry loads.

6:45 p.m.: Girls -- unload dishwasher. Mom -- loads dinner dishes.

7 p.m.: Dad -- takes the kids to Village Inn for pie. Mom GETS TIME TO HERSELF while the children are awake!!!

8 p.m.: Dad and kids come home and he plays with them and they do their own thing.

8:30 p.m: Mom -- gives baby a bath and then give her a bottle while rocking her to sleep. Then cleans the bathroom. For an hour Dad reads aloud to the girls from Mary Emma and Company by Ralph Moody (part of the Little Britches Series.)

9:30 p.m.: Dad -- sends kids to bed. Mom -- comes in and tucks everyone into bed and listens to events of the day.

9:45 pm.: Mom -- puts away one more load of laundry.

10 p.m.: Mom --reads the Homeschool Court Report she got in the mail today. Dad is passed out in bed

11 p.m. Mom -- does her bedtime routine and goes to bed.

by Lisa Crews
from http://www.azcentral.com

posted by All About Home @ 4:28 PM

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