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Classical Homeschooling: A Typical Day A typical day of homeschooling. Is there really such a thing? Each day is so different. But I will try to outline what life in our home is like when homeschooling my boys ages 8 and 10. We start the day schooling, last year around 11 am at the dining room table. This year, the goal is 9 am. But we are a year older than last year. Last year, we would school until 1 or 2 PM and then take a break, whether it was piano lessons, unit study with another family, time at the park, or errands to be run. We would resume schooling at 9 PM because funny thing would happen... the phone stopped ringing, people didn't stop by, meetings were not going on, and friends went home. 9 PM worked beautifully for the "quiet" work that needed to be done without interruptions. We would then school until about 11 PM quietly together on the floor or beds in the boys bedroom. This year, I am planning to resume the schedule I used when my girls were homeschooled. The girls are now 20 and 17 and both are in college. We have set up a "home school room". It is a luxury that until this year we were unable to have. This room is located right off the kitchen but has a door so it can be closed off from the rest of the house if need be. The homeschool room has a dining room table, with office chairs ( that have wheels and spin). Because I have one boy who needs to be moving while working, and the idea of a therapy ball was more than I could handle. So we purchased office chairs so he can squirm and move and spin, and roll around to his hearts content, in a confined space. He does great math work, art work, anything but reading, while moving around with his headphones on, listening to a CD. Also in this room are all the art supplies, resource materials, reference materials, just about everything we need for schooling, including lots of maps and posters on the walls. The computer is also in the homeschool room, since we do use the computer for some of our work. This year, the "plan" is to school in our room from nine am until about noon, or later if a project is not finished and the attention is still strong. And we will use about an hour at bedtime for reading together, usually our social studies/history lessons. Two days a week we will meet with other families for unit studies. One of those days will be for a special art/music unit. Another afternoon we have piano lessons. Three evenings a week we have Karate, and we have scouts one night a week. Plus we have sports, this season one boy is doing foot ball, the other soccer. Next season will be basketball and skiing and snowboarding, then in the spring will be baseball. In the past I have used Calvert for schooling. This year we are using the Core Knowledge Series. I have set up our system based on the time allotments from Calvert. Currently we are on summer schedule, which means we do not sit in our school room to learn. We read books, visit museums, talk about what we are reading, learning, seeing. We play games, and have a lot of fun. When the school year starts in September, we will spend more time at our table and do more pencil work. K, classical homeschooler
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