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Q&A Friday: YOUR Homeschool Day in the Life

ByJamie C. Martin

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!

73 Comments

  6. I have really enjoyed reading through the variety of families you have featured on your blog. Thank you for the encouraging spirit that creates!

    Our family has been homeschooling for 8 years now. We have a 9th, 8th, 6th, 5th, 3rd, and 2nd grader this year. 3 boys and 3 girls. Our days look pretty much the same week to week, Monday’s looking the same, Tuesday’s looking the same, etc., while looking different from each other.
    A typical stay at home day (Wednesday) starts with wake up for kids at 7 am. They start their “3 B’s” : Bedroom, Body, and Breakfast, starting school at 7:40.
    Wednesday rundown: Bible reading, group history, individual math, group exercise, partner spelling study, individual English grammar and creative writing , group science, then lunch. After lunch, we do a group health class school ends with an hour of quiet, assigned reading that gives the teacher a time to work on whatever she needs to!
    6th grade and younger follow the same schedule, while the 9th and 8th grader stays on a slightly altered one. It allows maths for older grades to be done apart from younger grades, allowing the teacher to give more focused attention on the needs. Trying to answer all 6 grades math questions in the same hour gave me a headache!

    The day ends at 2 with everyone cleaning up from school, doing their household chores and then 2 hours of FREE TIME! Around 4:30 it is one child’s turn to cook with Mom, (some of the older ones basically kicking Mom out of the kitchen!), and we have fun talking, cooking, and spending one on one time with each other.

    Supper time is spent with Dad, and we share things we have learned that day, funny things that happened, and usually make a lot of noise! Clean up from supper includes everyone, and it is done quickly. We don’t have a dishwasher, so each person washes their own dishes. Works pretty well.

    After supper, we do different things depending on the need. My husband and oldest head off to youth group, and the rest of us go about for a “free night.” Often we watch something together, read, or play a game. Getting ready for bed starts at 7:30, kids in bed by 8, lights out at 8:30. I travel to the different beds, cuddling, praying, and listening while they settle in bed. Dad and oldest get home around 9:15.. and usually are ready for a late night snack and rehash of the evening. Off to bed oldest goes, and Dad and I connect and detox from the day.

    This is a sample of our Wednesdays… Of course, it doesn’t always go as planned!

  7. I’ve been waiting all week for this linky party!! 🙂 My daughters are 2.5 years and 10 weeks old, because of that we’re at the very beginning part of home education, so no post from us, but I’ll be reading everyones!!

  11. I LOVE this series! We only started homeschooling in January after a not so grand attempt of public school. It is encouraging to read about other’s days.

    Here’s a weekly review of our current set up: http://jerbarmartin13.blogspot.com

  12. Pssst…hey, you! Quick question! What do you eat every day? What do you wear every day? What do you think about every day? Right…you do those things each day, but they vary so much from one day to the next, and that’s what I’ve tried to depict in this entry. That for us, there IS no “typical” homeschooling day. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂

    http://nancextoo.livejournal.com/272709.html

    Nance, relaxed, secular homeschooling mom to Alexa, age 11, and Ben, age 6.

  13. Thank you for sharing these links everyone! This is very helpful to read since we’ll be starting official homeschooling sometime soon with our 3 y.o. and a 3 month old in tow. 🙂

  14. I, too, love these kinds of posts. So fun to peek inside other homeschools to see how they structure (or don’t structure) their days.

    I have been homeschooling for 15 years. I have graduated 2 kids. I am currently homeschooling a 14, 13, 8, 7 and 4 year old with an 18 month old still too young for school.

    This is a link to my post about what our current schedule is like. I like the idea of writing down an actual days’ events but I am soooo busy, I keep forgetting to write during the day!

    http://abundant-life.me/2012/01/12/homeschool-day-in-the-life-with-a-1-4-7-8-13-14-year-old/

    I love homeschooling!!

  16. Hi! We just began homeschooling our 12, 10 and 8 year old children at January’s beginning. Our blog is at he web address above. I am a professional singer, songwriter, a business owner (Commonwealth Computers), founder of a non-profit organization helping women in need (Eve Rising) and a member of my city’s Cultural Council. Juggling it all has been interesting, but so far I’m loving it, and so are our kids!!

  20. This is our second year, both of homeschooling and linking up to the series. I had a blast last year and was excited to see we’d be doing it again this year! If anything, it’s helped me get caught up on my blog. 🙂

    Love to see the fun that everyone else is having at home!
    http://ruminationsoneducation.com/our-day-in-the-life-2012/

  21. This is our 21rst year of homeschooling 5 kids- we’ve graduated 2, both of whom are getting ready to graduate again- one from a 4 yr college and one from a Cosmetology program with plans to begin an R.N. program in the fall. I homeschool my 17 ds, 12 ds, and 9 dd. My homeschool day varies by day- we participate in on-line classes, co-op and a Tutoring Center so each day is different. Check out a week in our lives here:http://goldengrasses.blogspot.com/2012/02/1-landry-academy-classes-are-cruising.html

  22. We have a 5 year old, a 4 year old, and a 19 month old. This is our first year homeschooling. 🙂

  24. I have 3 daughters who are 20, 18, & 16 and a son at home with me. I homeschooled all the girls. The first one went all the way through homeschooling and spent her evenings as a ballerina. The second daugther is getting a free year of college at a local university although we had to enroll her in ps to be able to do this. Last daughter is in ps for volleyball but was homeschooled most of her life. My son and I are enjoying our homeschooling time together which is a switch for me who was used to homeschooling 4 children at once.

    Although I’ve had a homeschool blog for years I’ve never written a day in the life post. These are so interesting to read. Maybe I’ll have to do that sometime. Basically I work until about 9am. Then I get ready and my son starts on his independent work or I set up some songs from classical conversations for him to listen to. We read history, Bible and Science together with some recess breaks here and there. After lunch we finish up his table time where he needs help. Ideally we are done by 1 but more often than not it’s closer to 3.

    My goal for homeschooling is self teaching so I try to have him learn as much on his own although I don’t use textbooks. We set up a schedule at the beginning of the year of what he wanted to do each day. He has some programs on the computer too.

    Fridays are fun/catch up day. It’s a great incentive to get him to finish all his work by Thursday. Then we play games, go on field trips (rarely), do experiments and do art projects on Fridays. I figure if my husband who is a ps teacher can do game day on Friday, then I can too.

    1. That should say “I’ve been homeschooling…”

      I’m trying to type with said 2yo on my lap showing me his 100 big machines book. 🙂

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