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I was just figuring out my schedule, I have 4 in school from 9 and under. Just wondering how long your school days are? We start at 8 and end by noon if we stay on track?? LOL I have a 2 yr old and a baby on the way..
This includes time guided, independent and family studies, also a break for snack!
anyway just wondering how long in your days you do schooling typically?
Misty
Misty ~
I’m encouraged by your time schedule. I wish we could be all set to start school by 8! Breakfast, cleanup and morning chores seem to take forever around here so we don’t usually get started with family time until around 10am. If all goes well (no discipline issues arise or no unexpected visitors drop by) we are usually done by 2pm- this includes a break for lunch. However, that was last year. I’m still working on a schedule for this year. Since my oldest son (going on 13) will have more independant work this year, it may take him longer.
I have to say “Congratulations” on your new baby! How far along are you? Maybe it will be a girl this time? If so, she’ll be quite outnumbered. LOL 🙂
Blessings to you!
Heather
Can I tag onto this post and ask for people to post what a typical day looks like in addition to how long it takes?
I’d love to see just a rundown of what you do first, then what comes next, etc.
🙂
Csmamma.. I am 10 weeks! Due Feb. and very excited. A girl what would we do with a girl?? Only the Lord knows what we need in this family and we are open to his divine blessings.
If someone could tell me how to take my Micro Exel spred sheet and post it here I would be more than willing to show my schedule. I love doing schedules of all sorts, school, chores, meal planning you name it I will schedule it! LOL
Let me know and I will post it. I tried to copy and post but it’s in rows and columns and it doesn’t sort it right..
Thanks Ladies
Misty
We begin at 8 on great days and 9 or 10 on the “playful” mornings. Our ending time varies according to what we are doing that day. We have a schedule as our guide but I think we are more relaxed. We do our three Rs and Bible first then the rest so we may finish around 2 and some days 3. I have five dc. One in high school, two finishing 4th,d one finishing 3rd and a 2 year old also.
I am not an organized person by any stretch! That is one reason my dh was so excited by the organizer in this program. He didn’t even question the use of the money! 🙂 Anyway, I’m wondering if any of you ever get grief from people about how long school takes for you. When I started implementing a few of the CM ideas, the first one was trying to get all the “school” stuff done in the morning and giving the kids the afternoon to practice instruments or paint or read or play. (We have a lot of forts being assembled at any given point in time.) Anyway, there arent’ a lot of CMers around here and everyone kind of looked at me like I was crazy. Then the family members who don’t support HSing in general started quizzing my kids or asking if I was sure they were at grade level. I know the bottom line is that I need to follow God’s plan for our family and CM was a gift from Him. I guess I’m just curious if this type of scheduling has ever caused you all any issues…
Jen
because DS is special needs, it works better if we take longer breaks and shorter sessions all day so we don’t quite fit the ‘afternoons’ off CM model…i also don’t schedule specific subjects or how many subjects in a row. I do ‘work sessions’ so that if it is going great we will barrel on and if not we will end – but on ‘my’ terms. Here is what our day looks like…
scroll down on the post to see our ‘fancy’ schedule. LOL
http://rdisuperparents.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-is-in-charge.html
amy
We usually start school at 8:30 and work until noon. That usually is plenty for the elementary years. My high schooler needs another 1-2 hours in the afternoon, and we do a free reading hour in the afternoon as well, along with our other CM-ish afternoon pursuits. I have not really perfectly adjusted to the additional time my older child needs and am always rushing him along, it seems like, because I have to run errands and things like that and don’t want him cutting up frogs while I’m away, lol.
Jen, when people start in on the shorter school hours, I just frankly tell them that the majority of time a public school child is actually in school, they are not learning. They are at recess, or lunch, or lining up and waiting, or waiting for the other kids to get done, or going to assemblies, etc. And I tell them one on one instruction using CM methods is much more efficient than “traditional school methods” and, since my kids never have to line up to go to the bathroom or recess, we save tons of time. 🙂
I don’t really have a “schedule” to post, but we do have a routine. We like to begin with the “tough stuff” for us, getting math and Latin done early in the day, then switch out to different things, rotating from readings to time with Mom to computer time, then my oldest likes to save computer science and science coursework for afternoon. He doesn’t really need me much there, as he knows more than I do, lol, so I can clean house while he programs and check in periodically as he does experiments.
Michelle D
Bump ….
Reading the recent post about schooling year round made me (once again) sigh at this issue: Afternoons off! I just can not seem to do this … ever! My children are working mostly independently now with only a few lessons done as a family. Those are done together mainly out of joy and not necessity. However, no matter we just don’t rise early and we just are never done by noon or 1 each day. Our daily schedule would look something like 10 am – 3-4 pm. Maybe the youngest getting done an hour or so before the oldest.
We usually get started around 10:30. And we aren’t usually “done” until about 4. But that includes our dinner time and some rest time. And then I still make my oldest do some piano practice or history reading after that sometime.
Sometimes I get annoyed at myself for not being able to get it all in by noon. But this is how our day flows, so it is what it is.
Lately I’ve been wondering if I’m trying to pack too much into a day. But I just can’t seem to think it through and pare it down.
I just wanted to point out that we are morning people and that said we also go to bed earlier than many. So don’t fret about the time especially if it’s working for your family.
Claire, just curious. Do you and your little ones stay up late and sleep late? If so, maybe it could be perspective. Maybe your “afternoon” off at 3PM is the same as someone else’s afternoon off at 1. Maybe those that start earlier are earlier to bed and early to rise. As a homeschooler, embrace the freedom to have your own “free” hours.
We don’t usually start until 10:30 or 11:00. However, my DD6 is only in K.
Our typical day routine is very relaxed. I have 4 little ones 6 and under so In let them sleep as long as they choose. They wake up in stair steps from around 6-8ish. We try to have breakfast by 9. I do Bible and scripture memory then. We then start morning chores. In the morning, we only do math, reading lessons, and handwriting. By finishing time it’s usually lunch, where we try to fit in poetry. We read aloud in the afternoons and do piano practice in the afternoon/evening.
My husband had specifically requested later bedtimes since he doesn’t get home until 5:30. He prefers to spend time with them in the evening. While difficult now, (little ones), I see this as beneficial in the long run.
So, what I’m saying in probably too many words, our afternoon time off may still be there…just not at noon. I hope that makes sense.
Good points! I don’t exactly mind these hours, but I keep thinking is it a style of teaching that keeps us at it so long? I mean we can’t do core subjects in tight 30-ish minute blocks. Try as I might that just doesn’t work for us. A particularly detailed narration done creatively (say drawn, or as a quilt) and it’s goodbye short lessons. But I can’t say “stop that love of learning, move it, keep it going” or some such thing! Or maybe after oral narration we all start talking …. Does that not ever happen to all these folks who have older kids? Our days are so full of this type of randomness! And don’t get me started on their inquiring minds!! I’m just not one to squelch that in them for the sake of being done.
I’m so curious more moms on here don’t talk about some of this? Do your kids just do their lessons and that’s that?
( this is from my phone, please excuse mistakes)
Here is what our schedule looks like…I have things in 30 minute blocks. If DS completes the work in less than 30 minutes then he can choose to either move on to the next subject, or have a mini break….depending on how DS decides his day, we get done anywhere between 1:00 – 3:30
08:00:00 AM Breakfast
08:30:00 AM Morning Routine (chores)
09:00:00 AM Quiet Time/Independent Bible Study/Devotional
09:30:00 AM Independent Work (Spelling; Grammer; Copywork)
10:00:00 AM Snack (w/ Scripture Memory Box)
10:30:00 AM World History (SCM MOD 1)
11:00:00 AM P.E.
11:30:00 AM Math
12:00:00 PM Science M/W/F – Health T/T
12:30:00 PM Lunch
01:00:00 PM French
01:30:00 PM Guitar
02:00:00 PM NY State Mon – Character Tues/Thurs – Art Fri
02:30:00 PM Independent Reading
03:00:00 PM Snack (w/ CCA Memory Box)
03:30:00 PM FREE TIME
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