Earlier this month, I shared some pictures of my favorite homeschool planner. In that post, I mentioned that I have to write my schedule in pencil, because I change it so frequently. Well, it’s two weeks later and I’ve already overhauled it once. 🙂 I go through this every year, because it’s one thing to put a schedule down on paper and another to actually try it.
So…without further ado, here’s our homeschool schedule for 2013-14 (for now):
Monday
8:00 am – P.E.
8:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Math
9:30 am – Reading
10:00 am – Language
10:30 am – History
11:30 am – Geography
12:00 pm – Break for lunch and play
2:00 pm – Homework and unfinished projects
Tuesday
8:00 am – P.E.
8:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Math
9:30 am – Reading
10:00 am – Spelling/Handwriting
10:30 am – Science
11:30 am – Art
12:00 pm – Break for lunch and play
2:00 pm – Homework and unfinished projects
*By the way, my husband drew this on the board. I can’t draw like this to save my life.*
Thursday
8:00 am – P.E.
8:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Math
9:30 am – Reading
10:00 am – Language
10:30 am – History
11:30 am – Spanish
12:00 pm – Break for lunch and play
2:00 pm – Homework and unfinished projects
Friday
8:00 am – P.E.
8:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Math
9:30 am – Reading
10:00 am – Spelling/Handwriting
10:30 am – Science
11:30 am – American Sign Language
12:00 pm – Break for lunch and play
2:00 pm – Homework and unfinished projects
As you can see, we have the same basic routine on Monday/Thursday and Tuesday/Friday. The only change is the 11:30 am topic. We only have “school” four days a week, because we use a loose year-round schedule. By the time noon comes around, our kids are pretty wired and it’s best to get as much as we can done before lunchtime.
After the 11:30 am class, the boys are finished for the day. Tigger gets a break to give her some time to move around and relax. If we have any work from the morning that’s still in progress or if she has homework to complete, we’ll begin working on those at 2:00.
How do you schedule your homeschooling days? Do you have to make adjustments to your schedule during the year? Do you even bother with a schedule at all? Let us know in the comments!
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I love the idea of a timetable. Up to now, it hasn’t really worked for my children. Due to their special needs sometimes they just have to be out and about and active. So, my basic timetable is numeracy and literacy and a topic item for their lap-books everyday. Some days they do masses and are really focused, other days are more active.
We try to fit in about two play-dates a week but sometimes there is more going on and sometimes less.
I actually quite like the spontaneity as long as I can see we have made a reasonable amount of progress by the end of the week.
My Princess would be starting primary here now, so I am going to begin to move towards a more rigid timetable within the bounds of her needs.
My pirate is very, very wriggly but loves cooking. We found cooking science and numeracy books, so even on the days where he can’t sit still he can achieve something!
I have enrolled them into Currclick Lego and Magic Tree-house clubs this year. So, once a month they will have the club but there is also prep work to be done and I have made Book Report and Lego report sheets for them. They are really excited as Lego and Magic Tree House books are popular in this house. Also they are very impressed to be doing a club on the computer with children in America. Which actually, when you stop and think about it, is amazing.
For us a timetable is a work in progress but we are getting there. I have timetable envy and must now go and pray for forgiveness.
Totally understand about the wiggle fidgets. 🙂 We have to break things up too. The timetable is more for ME, so that I don’t go overboard on what I’m teaching…lol. We’ve signed up for the Currclick Lego club too!
I love the schedule. Seems like you have some fun things going on each day. My kids are being made to be nocturnal since our school day starts in the late afternoon and sometimes doesn’t end til 10pm.
As a former night owl, I wholeheartedly approve of this schedule! 🙂 I wish nights were a better fit for our family, especially since Piglet is so restless at night, but I’ve had to slooowly make myself into a morning person.
This was very helpful! I have tried different schedules and i’m definitely going to revamp ours with the 30min time blocks again. we’ve been taking more of an unschooling approach and teaching from their interests. Since my children are getting older sometimes we tend to treat them all like they are the same age. They are 7, 5, and 3 and i have a 5month old. We treat them all as if they are around my oldest age and then my oldest sometimes acts as if he’s younger, so we are really having to focus on each one more individually. What advice would you give in helping to teach them at their own level and together?
Hi! Thanks for stopping by! This is the first time we’re trying to do the grouping together, so we’re still working through the kinks. So far, what’s been helping is to already have things to keep the younger students occupied when our oldest is doing work. For example, when we teach her math, we have our boys practice writing their letters or numbers (or something else that’s quiet). During her language class, the boys work in their individual workbooks. For the more involved subjects like history, science, and art, we choose activities that have something for everyone to do. Maybe I’ll do a post about working with them all soon! 🙂
I have the same issue. Also I have a boy and a girl, so some of their interests are diverging now they are 6 and 7.
I have decided to do some things separately and some together. Literacy they do separately on the internet. We will do copy writing together. Things like that.
Also my daughter will happily sit and work for ages and my son will happily wriggle and chat for ages. I have got him a numeracy cook book and a science cook book and we are hoping to buy the family fitness thing if I can have it here in the UK.
I bet Selena has masses of tips, with so many lovely babies.
I love the idea of PE first thing in the morning it gets me moving and awake- but the few times we have tried it that way it has backfired on me. We can’t seem to get anything done afterwards. Now I have to use it as a reward.
Ha! That’s totally happened to me as well. The only thing that seems to work for us is doing a short 20-minute session and then sitting down to breakfast. But we have a couple with ADHD, so it’s helpful for settling them down for school. (Sometimes I just sit on the sofa and tell them what to do, though…lol.)