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A Day In The Life

I have attached a view of my lesson plans for this week. We give our days numbers verses using Monday, Tuesday, etc. This works best for us when we have to skip a day for appointments or other events. For a full description of our homeschooling check out this post: Homeschool Curriculum and Lesson Plans.

You can get a copy of these lessons at Heart of the Matter Online. I use a highlighter to mark what we have done already.

For each 5 day period, the boys have a pocket folder. Day 1 is blue, Day 2 is red, Day 3, is green, etc. Each morning they find their worksheets and whatever other sheets they need for the day.

After their lessons are over they place their completed worksheets back into the folder and onto my desk so that I can check them.

From there, I store them in a 3 ring binder that will hold all of their work for the year. It is a great keepsake too. We keep them on the bookshelf so that we can look at previous work anytime we want to!

Each child also has a specific section on the bookcase in my office. Every morning when they get their folder they also grab their stack of texts. They put them back when their lessons are done.

Our typical day starts at 8 AM. I get up and make coffee, sit down and have my quiet time. I wake up the kids and they do their chores and then have breakfast. We do our bible reading, daily devotionals and journal time together then I take each of the kids individually to do their other subjects. I have found we are done more quickly this way since there are fewer distractions. They also don’t have to fight for my attention and we get the much needed one on one time. Then we all come together again for our bible lesson and our Konos for the day. I send the kids off to play and I do my chores, cook and wait for dad to come home.

What does your day look like?

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Comments

  1. We have a similar day regarding the subjects we do together and the ones they do individually. Except I have a dawdler that holds up the together time… So I will most likely do our together time first (history, science, read-aloud) and do the individual after (Language Arts, Math, handwriting, personal readers).

  2. Tina in WA says:

    Very well put together! :o )

    I would love an office, or a school room. But not in this house. :o )

    Interesting idea about the different folder for each day of the week. Can I ask why you do that? Is it so it doesn’t look like at lot of work at once for them? Or is it easier for you to check them? Or something else? :o )

  3. Amy B says:

    Hi, Tina!

    I use the different colored folders so that each morning when they get their textbooks they know which folder to grab. If I tell them it is day 3 then they know to get that folder.

    I prefer not to have a huge pile of papers to hand out and then separate again. This makes it easier for me!

  4. Tina in WA says:

    I see now. :o ) Thanks for sharing that idea. :o )

    There are so many different ways homeschooler assign work. I always like to hear about what other homeschoolers do for organizing work with multiple children.

    Again, thanks for responding. :o )

    ~Tina

  5. Lisawa says:

    Amy! Very well done! You are one organized lady! I aspire to be like that!

    Lisa

  6. Christina says:

    WoW!!! Look at you go, Wonder Woman! Your more detailed & organized than I am. Is that possible!?
    Thanks for sharing…

  7. Heidi says:

    I love your system. I think I may need to incorporate some of that in our day (books together and the colored folders!!)
    Thanks for sharing! :)



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