I was home-schooled from fifth to tenth grade. My older brother still went to public school, on his decision, and my younger sisters and I stayed home schooled. Since my brother was in public, we followed the school’s schedule a little. We started around the same time, and had vacations around the same time, but we could have chosen to do it any way we wanted. We never took snow days, and sometimes we got two days worth of work done in one day, and we started summer vacation weeks before public schools did.

We also got done earlier in the day ( around twelve). I still did a lot of extra curricular activities, and there was a home schooling activities group we joined, which included playing with other home-schoolers, swimming, science and foreign language classes, art, music, and sports.

As for a day of work, my mom would teach all the lessons, then give me the rest that I could do on my own, and teach my younger sisters. The curriculum we had included A LOT of reading, which is what I did on my own.

Oh, the curriculum we used ( just so you know) was called sunlight. Have fun home-schooling!

I reckon that my siblings and I are what you would call

‘Unschoolers’. We don’t work to any sort of schedule, timetable, curriculum, grades, syllabus etc preferring instead to just ‘go with the flow’. I can’t even tell you which year I would be doing if I did go to school; I think the school equivalent would be either year 8 or year 9 but I couldn’t say which for sure.

At the moment, I’m concentrating on History, French and The Theory of Knowledge. My mum just ordered me a book on getting a classical education at home and I’m hoping that has some ideas for other things I could study – I’m thinking maybe I’ll do some Latin or Ancient Greek next.

Hannah

Well, I unschool-homeschool. I get myself up around 7am. Shower, dress, brush teeth, eat. I do work until 10am. Everyone else in the house usually gets up by this time. Oh, I do independent study, so I basically do everything myself. I get ready for work. After work I go to the theater, usually this is about 6:30pm. I get home by 10pm, sometimes later and sometimes earlier. Weekends I’ll usually pick up a book for at least an hour. On the days that I don’t have work or theater I’ll usually watch something interesting on tv, ride bike, go for a ride in the car, go to the store and pick up what ever we migh need for supper the next day. Every day is different for me. One day I might do more school work than others. Other days I might watch my dad fix something on the car. I’m also 18 and on my last year of “schooling”.

I would think it depends on which state you’re in. For example, here in VA, there is an alliance of Home Schoolers in their own little network and they are an organization. Contact your local school board and ask them. They should be able to tell you the requirements, testing procedures and whatnot associated with it. You may want to think about it because a lot of HS’ers here in Va. study at home but are very involved with extra-cur. activities at school such as sports, music programs, etc. If you’re just disgusted with your school, talk to a counselor and get their opinion. Don’t do anything hasty and I’d think your parents should be involved since you I presume are still living at home. It is that you are a minor in their household and by law, they have to be consulted as does the school sys. So, take a rational approach to this. good luck. Have a good year! Have fun! Be cool!

Mrs. T. / Chesterfield, Va.

I am a stay at home mom to. I don’t really have a schedule. My husband is off on the weekends so I do not do any house work on sat or sunday. I use those days so me and my daughter can spend the whole day with him. On mondays I do my deep cleaning. I do all the laundry put it away, vacum, dust, windex clean the kitchen and bathroom. I have learned how to do things fast while my daughter takes her nap and why she is awake I do simple things. the rest of the days I just straighten up through out the day but since I do my deep cleaning I am able to keep with things for the rest of the week, I also do daily vacuming. I try and do things while she is in her jumper playing. Laundry is an easy thing to do while they are awake and vacuming.

For my teen, we have scheduled 5 hours a day (one hour per subject). This is a new schedule for us, as previously we unschooled. I am still unschooling my 8 year old, although he is required to do one hour of “work” each day.

For my teen, ideally we start at 8:30, with a 30 minute break for lunch. By 2:30, he is at a youth center hanging out with his friends from the local high school. I am also trying to work in an hour or two each weekend for review as he sees fit.

He is in the 10th grade using Keystone National High School curriculum

Our schedule is kind of fluid, it’s more an amount of things to do each day or each week. My son doesn’t seem to work well on a “it’s 9:30, you’re doing math till 10” type of schedule, so we don’t use that.

I guess our standard day, if there is such a thing looks something like this:

He wakes up around 8/8:30 and does his “morning routine” – showers, dresses, brushes teeth, eats, picks up after himself. By 9, he’s ready to go.

He does his independent/seat work, which includes his math, language arts, spelling, Greek, and any Spanish practice. He also reviews his Scripture memory work, as he has challenged himself to memorize large portions. This generally takes 45 minutes to an hour.

He then gets a break in which he can go on an educational website for 30 minutes, something like BrainPop or Millsberry. He spends another 15 minutes in a “move-it” break, where he’ll go play with the dog, ride his bike, or cup stack if it’s raining. Then it’s snack time for the morning.

After this we spend about an hour, hour and a half working on our unit study/lapbook. This will include Bible study, research, note taking, math word problems, geography, science experiments, poetry lesson, art study, and things like that. If he’s really interested in it, we go for 2 hours or so. These range from science, to history, to literature, to geography.

After that, it’s lunch and walk the dog. About an hour.

After lunch, we do history for an hour – reading, notebooking, projects, online research, lapbooking.

We then do science for an hour or so – reading, doing experiments, notebooking, online research, lapbooking.

We finish up by working on his writing project. I assign him writing projects that go across the curriculum – one week it might be a report on the ocean food chain, the next it might be a biography on Columbus. This way, it’s an extension of another subject and easy for him to see the application of his writing.

He’s 9.5, going into 5th grade. This schedule changes, of course, for co op days or field trips, but this is what he seems to be most comfortable with.

We go year-round, with our new school year starting the first Monday in June. This keeps with his promotion in Scouts and at church, so he knows what grade to tell folks he’s in 🙂 We take off from Thanksgiving to the week after New Years, and a couple of weeks in the summer for camp and vacation. Otherwise, we may take off a spring or fall break, and we take mental health days when we need them 🙂

Hope that helps!

Welcome to the club. Hey, homeschooling is a blast! Been doin it for three years! Going into grade number ten. Make sure to look for well respected and challenging curriculum. My parent got me Abeka, Calvert, along those lines. Best part you acctually get more of a life than you do in school! (if you do it right) Be sure to record grades closley, and be honest in your work!

God bless you.

P.S. if you live near the coast, try windsurfing. Sailing groups are a whole different breed of people. see you on the water!

In high school, I was given a list of what I needed to accomplish that day, and then I did it whatever way I wanted! I was self-directed and usually finished the day within 3-4 hours!

(And before you all start shaking your heads, I got a 31 on my ACT and am maintaining a 3.9 GPA in college- it worked!)

First tell your Mom not to homeschool you!!! You cant spell.

My mom is considering homeschooling me,we have a scedule worked out but I was jus wondering what do You do..?

Let me show you. SCEDULE is SCHEDULE and JUS is JUST !!!! Please dont homeschool!!!!!