A Day in the Life of Home-Schoolers

Okay, so I have to be honest and confess right up front that all our days do not look like this.  I’d love to tell you that every morning we faithfully and cheerfully get our chores done, do a little exercising and happily sit down to work on penmanship and spelling and all such academic things.  But I’d not be stating the truth, sadly.  I won’t go into what most days are honestly like, but instead I’ll relish in those days that things DO go smoothly and share THAT day with you (and just let you believe this is the “norm”). J

8:00ish – a healthy breakfast with a Bible story

8:30ish – chores

9:00ish – penmanship, etc.

10:00-11:00ish – walking

12:00ish – a little more academics before lunch

12:00-1:00ish – a healthy lunch (sometimes prepared by Levi while I work on more academics with Jonah)

After lunch – back to the books until all is complete

So while we’re all living in this nice and neat little world of everything going as planned, let me share some pictures of how it often looks on that “all is well” day.

PENMANSHIP

How do you like their choice for “seats” to practice their writing?  Yes, they have desks, but that gets boring if it’s what you do ALL the time—have to change it up on occasion. ;)

SPANISH and TYPING

And let’s not forget LANGUAGE, READING, MATH, HISTORY, SCIENCE, POETRY, BIBLE MEMORY, etc.

And I’d post pictures of some of the “fun” or recreational time, but I’m too vain to post the one I took of us out walking today (with my hair all pulled back in a headband); and I don’t have one of Levi out working in the bees with Jake (because, well… I’m here, not there); and we’ve not gotten around to art for a couple of weeks due to being on the run with appointments and such…  But you’ll have to take my word for it that the boys DO do more than just academics J and they’re both doing quite well in all they’re doing so far this year (we are on our sixth week of 2^nd and 4^th grades).  So, just let me bask in the warmth of a good school day and pretend that they’re all just like this (shhhhh… no one wake me up to reality just yet—that’ll happen soon enough I can assure you).