A four day week homeschool schedule

A great advantage to home educating is the ability to be flexible. We are not tied down to 13 week terms or 9-3 hours. I have always found it somewhat amusing when being interrogated over our choice to teach our own children that people are shocked that we are doing school during half term and that we always seem to be out when we should be in doing school. There does seem to be a misconception that home schoolers have to follow a typical school day pattern or it could just be me that keeps meeting these people.

I had a bit of fun deciding what our homeschool week should look like and in reality our week often turns out different to what I may have planned at the beginning due to the wonderful nature of life to throw you a curve ball and obstacles put in one's way. But having said that I do have a general timetable that I keep returning to. I decided that I would have a 4 day home school week where we would do school on Monday, Tuesday, break on Wednesday and continue with school on Thursday and Friday. With Mr Social being the tender age of 5 still I don't feel like we require any more than this right now. In the mornings we focus on literacy, mathematics and scripture memorisation and the afternoons would be a mixture of science, history, geography and Spanish. This makes our day sound quite full but in reality planned school work can be finished within 1-2 hours in the morning and an hour after lunch and the rest of the time is spent in the children's own pursuits or in the great outdoors exploring our city and local parks and sometimes even the exotic realm of our garden. Wednesday is our off day but we do help with our church's toddler group, go to the library and Mr Social has an athletics group he goes to. Saturday is family day as Daddy isn't working and Sunday is the Lord's day.

We take off time around Christmas, Easter and the middle of summer when we have the great weather. School also happens wherever we go. At the park, in the garden, at local libraries and places where we meet with other home educators. School doesn't mean sat at the table and writing either, it takes many forms and most of all we try and have fun.

What does your home school week look like? Leave a comment and let us know.