Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom
January was filled with posts from each of our contributors, sharing how we fit all the pieces of life together in our homeschool day. Each day reflects much of what is going on in our lives–from work we do on the side to babies waiting in the wings.
You’ve heard us ramble on and on for an entire month.
Today, it’s your turn! So here are my questions for you:
How old are your kids? How long have you been homeschooling? What does your homeschool day look like?
Last Sunday, I invited you to write a day in the life post on your own blog to link up below. If you have a link to share, please include it in your comment here.
Even if you haven’t written a separate post, you can of course still tell us about your day just by leaving a comment.
I’d love to have the chance to read how your days unfold.
Thanks so much for sharing!
C.C.’s Homeschool Day in the Life of a Mamma with Fibromyalgia ~ http://www.thealmons.com/ccblog/?p=5651
These are always interesting. My daughter is 7 and in 2nd grade. I’ve homeschooled her since preschool.
http://ourniftynotebook.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-homeschool-day.html
I have three boys (10, 7, and 5) and a 16 month old girl. We’ve been homeschooling from the beginning. Every day is different around here. We are neo-classical homeschoolers, but have a very ‘go with the flow’ sort of (non)routine. I posted our ‘day in the life’ for three days in a row this month:
http://mthopeacademy.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-life-january-2012.html
http://mthopeacademy.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-life-day-2.html
http://mthopeacademy.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-life-day-3.html
I’ve loved reading the Day in the Life series again, Jamie!!
I love reading these!
I am homeschooling my 7 year old daughter, while my 3 year old learns by osmosis. We just started last September, so we’re still newbies!
http://www.twocowgirls.blogspot.com/2012/01/week-in-life-ofmonday.html
We’re pretty new to homeschooling with Gracie (7 yrs) in first grade and MisterMan (5 yrs) in Kindergarten. Balancing the regular needs of daily living with homeschooling with special healthcare needs has been a big challenge. This series has helped me see how every family is unique and does what they can and need to, when they can and need to and that has been very comforting and encouraging!
http://fromthestacks.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/a-day-in-the-life-2/
I am a homeschool mom of three children, ages 16, 11 and 10. Our family began our homeschool journey when the oldest was ready for preschool and it is now less of a decision and just who we are.. I wouldn’t change it for the world!
I have loved getting to have a glimpse of how others make this homeschool life work. We’ve been homeschooling since our daughter was 4. She’s now 9 and we have two sons ages 6 and 2. Even at the difficult moments I am so glad that we chose this way of life for our family.
http://erinmessing.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-life.html
Here is my day in the life. My kids are 21, 11,9, and 8. We have homeschooled for 13 years.
http://my4sweetums.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-life-january-edition.html
Blessings,
Dawn
Read about our day in the life with 2 teenagers, a 9 year old and a 6 year old, and about how our days have changed in the course of 10 years of home schooling.
http://anothergranolamom.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/a-day-in-the-homeschooling-life/
http://learningonacurve.blogspot.com/2012/02/woke-up-got-outta-bed-ran-comb-across.html
I love this series! Thanks, everyone for sharing!
We’ve been homeschooling 5 years and have a 9, 6 & 3 year old.
http://learningonacurve.blogspot.com/2012/02/woke-up-got-outta-bed-ran-comb-across.html
My girls are 8 (2nd gr), 6 (K), 4 and one boy who is 16 months. We are in our 3rd year of homeschool!
http://herdofsteph.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-homeschooling-day-january-2012.html
I’m homeschooling a 7 /2 year old dd and a 6 year old dd with a 20 month old ds along for the ride:
http://www.hopeisthewordblog.com/2012/02/03/a-day-in-our-life-homeschooling-a-7-12-a-6-year-old-with-a-20-month-old-in-tow/
I have enjoyed this series so much! It is encouraging to read about how others do life. I wrote a post about our ideal homeschool day. I have two six year olds, a four year old and a one year old.
http://dailydwelling.com/our-ideal-homeschool-day
My children are 10, 7 and 5. We just began homeschooling in September with the two oldest- both boys. Our daughter attends Kindergarten at a local private school. If you’d like to see what our days are like, you can read my Homeshool Day in the life post here:http://ourgreathomeschoolexperiment.blogspot.com/2012/02/natalies-homeschool-day-in-life-with-10.html
Thanks for hosting this 🙂
We homeschool a 15 year old 9th grader and a 6 year old 2nd grader. We also have an 8 year old public school 2nd grader, who will be coming home next year. This is our 2nd year homeschooling, and began at the request of our oldest. We have slowly brought each one home after that. Homeschooling started out as a necessity and now is a way of life. I posted my Day in the Life as part of my Weekly Wrap-up here:
http://journey2excellence.blogspot.com/2012/02/weekly-wrap-up-day-in-our-schooling.html
I have a nearly eight-year-old odd little boy, and a four-year-old precocious little princess, and we are in our third year of homeschooling now. Every day is an adventure.
I was so excited when you started the day in the life series this year that I blogged mine a couple weeks ago: http://postmodernfeeding.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-day-in-our-homeschool.html
I love reading about everyone’s days.
I’ve been homeschooling my kids “since birth” 🙂 They are 13, 12, 10, 8, 6, 19 months. Thanks for the invitation!
This is our second year homeschooling and our second year participating in Day in the Life. We have a 6, 4, and 2 year old here. http://everydaysnapshots.blogspot.com/2012/02/homeschool-day-in-life-2012-edition.html
Can’t wait to pop around the web later today and read them all. Such a fascinating glimpse of our days.
We’ve been home educating from the beginning – my son is 11 and daughter almost 6.
I love having a glimpse of what other families do. We can learn so much from one another!
http://www.ourjourneytohosanna.blogspot.com/2012/02/these-are-days-of-our-lives.html
I enjoy reading these. We are doing preschool. Mostly my 4 y/o, but my 2 y/o joins in.
Here is our day:
http://debbie-exceedingabundantly.blogspot.com/2012/02/debbies-preschool-homeschool-day-in.html
This is our second year homeschooling our now 6yo and 4yo. Our day looks a little different because my husband and I both work full time, so we split a lot of the school responsibility.
http://callingitprogress.blogspot.com/2012/02/day-in-life-of-our-homeschool.html
I have really enjoyed reading about everyone’s days during this series.
We have been homeschooling since September of 2011. My oldest is 11 (5th grade) and my middle child is 7 (2nd). My youngest is 4 and attends our local preschool four times a week. Each day looks a little different, but mainly our day starts with Bible (Telling God’s Story), Math (Saxon), English (First Lang. Lessons & Rod and Staff), Spelling (Spelling Workout), and History (Story of the World). I’ve decided to change Science curriculum because it just wasn’t working. We follow the Classical Education approach, so I’m back to researching the Well Trained Mind for another Science experiment book.
I wrote two separate posts, a good day and a bad day:
http://www.chickensinmykitchen.com/2011/04/day-in-life-part1.html
http://www.chickensinmykitchen.com/2011/04/day-in-life-part-2.html
Thanks for organizing this! I love reading about other people’s days.
Forgot to add that I have a 6 yr old, a 4 yr old, a 3 yr old, and a 14 month old.
I love reading this series and was pretty excited to do my own Day in the Life (it was exhausting keeping track of everything in our day!). I quit my job as a children’s and teen librarian in a public library about a year ago in order to stay at home with my 3 kids. I have one due in June and my oldest is 4….yikes!