A Week in the Life...

of one homeschooling family...

*note that we fit in workbook type work (aka traditional schoolwork) in between classes

Monday: get up, drink coffee, make sure kids eat, take care of personal hygiene, get dressed, do chores

start some workbook school work which gets done off and on in between classes*

writing class for boys 10-11:30

reading, writing, and math with TJ 10-11:30

spanish tutor comes to our house for boys 12-2

Take TJ to spanish tutor 12:30-1:15

music TJ 3-4

music Mr. Kai 4-5

Guitar for Pickle 5:30-6 (I drop off and dad picks up)

Tuesday: same morning as Monday

see note*

German for Pickle and his friend V here at our house 10-11

do school work with Mr. Kai and TJ 10-11

Art class at our house with all 3 kids 11:15-12:30 ish

this is the afternoon I try to schedule appts, run errands, etc

Wednesday: same morning as the other days but more of a scramble because we have to be somewhere early

Earthroots 9-2

babysit in the afternoon 2:30

Thursday: same morning as the other days

see note*

Chinese at our house all 3 kids 11-12

PE at the beach 1-2

every 4th Thurs we have a meeting with our E.S.

some Thurs we have BookClub in the afternoon

first semester we did Craft/Social Studies with two other families in the afternoons

babysit in the afternoon 2:30

Friday: same morning routine

on a good morning we fill in the holes from the week

Homeschool Park Day 11:30-1:30 This is really the highlight of our week! We have a great homeschooling community and I truly believe it's the key for surviving the ups and downs of homeschooling.

Aikido 6:15-7

Weekends: Even though it's the weekend it doesn't mean learning ends. Sometimes we go places that I consider educational but more importantly it's fun. Sometimes dad will do things with them that we couldn't fit in during the week like science experiments, bike rides, skate park, visiting great grandma who is almost 97, going to the recycling center, going to the grocery store, going to the library. Because we homeschool, I see the educational value in all the regular activities of life. Learning never ends. It doesn't only happen M-F 7:45-2:05. It's 24/7/365.

PE at the skatepark