A day in the life of...

Structure and sticking to a schedule is important to successful homeschooling. Having a plan and sticking to it is crucial.

In case you were wondering what one of our days was like, I thought I'd share a typical daily schedule.

8:00 rise and shine
8:30 chores
9:00 English
9:30 Social Studies
10:00 Science
10:30 Word Building
11:00 Math
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Afternoon tidy up
1:00 Break
2:00 Art lessons

(What really happened)
8:00 I open my eyes to a very sticky and stinky one year old, jumping up on my bed to give me a good morning kiss and share her banana with me.

8:30 Half the kids still eating breakfast, washing my banana smeared sheets

9:00 "You have 5 minutes to pick up your Lego's or I'm vacuuming them up!"

9:30 Tried to vacuum up the Lego's but the vacuum's belt broke, spent the rest of the half hour looking for a new belt, cleaned out the cupboard that the belt should be in, finally found it, broke it trying to put it in.
Girls begin their English.
Boys frantically pick up their Lego's.

10:00 Sweep the living room rug.
Girls still working on English.
Boys finally brushing their teeth.
Grace dumps the legos.

10:30 Step in the other half of the banana, smear it across the kitchen floor, mop while learning about Squanto (we're finally onto Social Studies),
Boys are wrestling in the Living room over who gets the big pencil.

11:00 I'm still cleaning, Kids are still working, babies are still distracting.

11:30 Courtney gets her things out for me to read her spelling words. But first, I have to change a couple diapers, go upstairs for a new onsie, put a little laundry away while I'm up there, remember there's a naked baby downstairs waiting for a onsie...

12:00 ...read Courtney her spelling words

12:30 Lunch

1:00 "Take Grace outside and I'll clean up the kitchen."
Kids rush out the door, Joshua cries...

2:00 Kids come back in,
time for Math,
kitchen still not clean.

3:00 Schoolwork is done,
forget art class - I'm taking a nap.


But when the day is done,
the kids learned something new,
the house was clean (sorry you missed it)
we made some pretty cool things with legos,
I snuck in a few meaningful conversations with my girls,
and best of all...

I got banana kisses.