What’s an average day in your homeschooled child’s life?

I homeschool my nine year old son. We are really relaxed.

Up by 11 or so

Eat

Let him have an hour to do what he wants

Math workbook and pc game

Reading

History or Science

Free time till evening and meal

Whatever project he’s currently working on, science or art, sometimes 4H

We try to play some type of educational game together most nights

He goes to be around midnight or 1

This would be a day when he has no outside activities planned.

I don’t think you have to be very structured if that isn’t your style. He still tops out on the standardized tests.

There really is no average day for homeschoolers. Classically, they get up do their chores and have all their required work done by noon or one o’clock. At least that’s what I keep telling my kids. It hasn’t really worked out that way for us. Some days are good and productive and some aren’t. We could spend all day on one subject at times and another day we could grasp concepts easily and fly on to the next. I guess what I am saying is that it is different for everybody. Most people do finish up their years work early May though. (not us) I work and also do the schooling so we are pretty errratic and usually work year round to catch up. I find that my children do not work very well unless I am actually watching them, so the days I am exhausted from work are the school days. But really, the hours needed for succesful homeschooling are much less than for public school so sometimes it works out well to only do school 4 days a week. I would hesitate recommending it to a single working parent unless the child is older and independent. It is hard enough being a single parent without adding this on to your plate. Then again, I was a single working parent and had my kids in public school. It was dreadful for them and they got the worst education imaginable because I wasn’t there for them. I think to have child do well in PS the parent has to devote so much time to checking up on the classroom teacher and helping with homework that they would be just as well off homeschooled. I know I could not have done worse than the public school did, that is why I am now a working mother homeschooler for my younger kids.

An average day in my dd’s homeschooling life (during the school year; she’s 9)–keep in mind this doesn’t mean EVERY day is like this because each day is different!:

Get up around 6:30-7.

Read or do some other schooly type activity.

Have breakfast around 7:30-8. Get dressed and all that.

More schooly activities. A requirement of math, writing something and reading to me for a little bit. Everything else is based on interest, stuff we’ve found, projects she’s got going, etc.

Lunch around 11:30.

Afternoons: there’s no average afternoon, I’m afraid. One afternoon is for going to the library. Another is usually our homeschool park day outing. Then another for other field trip possibilities or just a general outing. We usually have a get-together at our place once a month. What time is left is spent outside, doing art, reading, playing, maybe baking or doing some messy science activity…

I know some single working parents who do it. One has the kids homeschool with another family and isn’t really involved in the homeschooling. has family members help out with the child-minding here and there, plus additional babysitters/dayhomes she uses, then fits in the homeschooling when she’s with them. I’m not sure what the other mom I know does…

There is no “average” day, and I am not kidding.

Our oldest is in her late twenties, and we still have preteens, teens, and wonderful grand children.

The day is semi planned out; there is a schedule, but it is a guideline, we leave plenty of room for the unexpected, or if the energy levels are to high to sit down and focus we can go for a walk, roller blade or shoot a few hoops.

More work gets done when the “ants are out of their pants”.

Each child learns at their own pace, and has their own goals.

We set it up so they can reach their goals.

We guide, and help where ever we are needed.

Some study better in the morning, some in the evening.

Their independent work needs to be completed each Friday by noon, and be on my desk for review; other subjects like history, and science are done collectively because they require more prep time.

We spend an average of 1 hour a day one one with each child on academics.

We spend all day talking, discussing, reading, cooking, and doing just about everything else as a family.

I did not include all their Church, and outside activities, work, and time with friends because it would quickly show that sometimes 24 hours are just not enough.

That’s about it for a typical day.

I was home-schooled for a year so I have experiences both public and home-schooled life. I much prefer the public school scene because it’s a lot more social. During a regular home-school day I would wake up and do work in a workbook for whatever subjects I had and for P.E or gym I’d have dance class or softball on certain days of the week. Also, once a week we’d go to a school for home-schoolers to get a packet of homework for the week. I don’t know if that is typical though. Hope this helps.

Well i am a homeschooled student so a normal day in my life is

7:45 Wake Up

8:00 Eat and get dressed

8:30 Chores

9:00ish School starts

Bible

Math

English

Science

Spelling

History

Health

Writting

Do with school so I swim or read

Tv

Dinner b 5:30

Swim or read

Something

Shower

read or something

Bed by 9:30

Wel it is not really set but it is basically This

Hope this helps!

Every family homeschools differently. Read A Patchwork of Days, it gives many examples of how families homeschool. In our case, we typically do schoolwork in the mornings and early afternoon, usually done by 1:30-2:00, then do activites like swim team, dance, martial arts, etc. We also meet 2 days a week with our homeschool group, have lunch with grandma one day a week, and make time for doc appointments one morning each week.

I have two girls I home school, 10th grade and 5th grade. An average day would be closest to this:

7:30 wake up- morning activities (clean up), breakfast

8:30 devotionals

about 9:00 start working on “school” I meet with each of them, go over the days work or anything they missed on the previous days work. Usually in the am, they work on Language Arts and Math.

11:30 Break for lunch

around 12:30 back to work. It there is an experiment or project for any class, we go over this in the afternoon usually.

We usually work on Science, History, Spanish, Typing, Art and such in the afternoon. Not necessarily all of them each day.

By 3:00 we are pretty much wrapping it up unless something isn’t done.

Some days we are done with school by noon or so, it just depends.

Try to “deschool” yourself and have fun with it. I stressed out a lot when I started out and had to be lovingly told to “chill out” by another home school mom who is also a good friend.

I hope this helps some. Feel free to email if you would like.

My kids & I roll out of bed late in the morning. We do breakfast and hit the books. We stop for lunch, and usually pick back up until school kids start knocking on the door wanting to play.

Sometimes we’ll be up late watching educational TV or playing games. It is the best in my opinion.

I did have to work for a short time, and I just left my daughter with her Grandma. Days off we worked harder, and Grandma also worked with her. Having support helps. Also, some private & public schools offer you to enroll part time so that you can have best of both worlds!