Real Life Homeschooling: What Our Day Looks Like

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Now that I’ve shown everyone a glimpse into the physical chaos in and talked about how we often are found adjusting learning plans part way through the year, I thought I’d continue on the transparent theme and talk about what our day looks like. 

 

Okay, maybe schedule isn’t quite the right term for our family’s homeschool at the moment.  We just aren’t THAT kind of regimented, although I sometimes wonder if I need to be.

Before 6 a.m., my husband is out the door for work.

By around 7 a.m., I am dragging my tired body out of bed.  I’ll admit there are some mornings where it is especially rough and I’m pushing closer to 8 a.m.

From when I get up until 8:30 a.m., I make and consume my breakfast, read through the newspaper, and then start in on social media tasks for the blog.  Some mornings I am writing a blog post in that time or checking email.

At 8:30 a.m., I head out the door with my 6th grade son and drive him to school.  (For those who are new to the blog, I talked about our transition to being a hybrid homeschool family last year.)  Sometimes my 5 year old comes with me and some days he’s still asleep.

After dropping my son off at school, I will go to daily Mass or Communion service IF there is nothing time sensitive that needs to be done with the older boys (e.g. bringing them to a study group as was the case in the fall.)  Depending upon how my day is going and what my personal needs are for interaction, I might spend 30 minutes or more visiting with others attending daily Mass. 

Upon returning home, I’ll check in on the older boys.  Often times, my 9th grader will do his online Omnibus lesson with me sitting alongside at this point. Or, I might work with our preK son on his work. And, if I have a lot of blogging work with deadlines, I might be doing my own work while watching the youngest play with LEGOs, do some educational games on the iPad, or watch a show.

That’s MY morning.  Yes, that’s right…MY schedule. 

My teenagers do not like me super imposing upon them and have therefore been left to their own devices. This is not something that works for all and I’ll be honest in saying that I suspect if everyone had to report for the start of school at a set time and sit alongside each other until it was done then I might not have as many headaches over late work.

My eldest son is obsessed (like other teenaged boys) with getting fit and learning music (guitar.) He will do an hour of exercise daily sometime before or after lunch even though there’s a pile of school work to be done. Same with at night…he’d rather be learning how to play a new song on one of the guitars than doing anything from his pile of work.

       

What does YOUR homeschool day look like?

 

       

Day by Day in our World is joining other homeschool bloggers from the Schoolhouse Review Crew in sharing glimpses of our real life homeschool. Here are just a few of the bloggers participating this week:

Treasuring Life’s Blessings
Double O Farms
Simple Living Mama
Fried Clams and Sweet Tea
This Sweet Life
A Net In Time
Counting Pinecones
Some Call It Natural
Kingdom Academy Homeschool
Debbie’s Homeschool Corner