Comments on: Top 10 Ways to Schedule Your Homeschool Calendar

By: Alicia Villa

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:14:09 +0000

I am a mom of 5 boys ages 13,11,10,5,and 3. My only girl is 1year. I am struggeling with planning our homeschooling schedule for a few reasons! Number one. My husband has Mondays and Wednesdays off instead of weekends. I am struggeling with weather to take these days off from studying to have family time or make it a study day! Why? well, it seems that my husband has too much stuff he desires to do or needs to do instead of family interactions, unless it involves eating out of course! If he is not waxing a car, doing laundry or taking trash to the dump, he’s outside or on his phone, really void from doing family activities. Should we just make this a school day anyway? Also, my kids attend a public school with me that sees the parent as the primary educator. We attend amazing classes. My 13 year old son has voluntarily chosen to take ballet and loves archery! My 11 year old really loves woodworking and make and play banjo, The last is my 9 year old who loves science and is taking 3 science classes! They each take take 5-7 classes at school a week. I have been laxed about forcing them to practice their things at home for progress. They gripe too much when I say, time to practice your instrument or any other onsite homework. I dont see tge teachers reinforcing homework or practice at home. The kids say, well the other kid ds dont practice they just check off days they did when they didnt. I am caught up in the same thing! Guilty oh yes! I am not a firm believer in homeschooling that makes your kids feel like pushing away but there should be practice of a subject in order to advance! I had to do alot of homework and practice when I attended public school for 12 years plus. I may not of liked it then but because of all the practice in say, math, I am able to recall and teach my oldest son algebra after 13 years of being out of school, and that makes makes me feel good. If I said to the boys go practice car racing on the xbox they would bolt up the stairs and hop to it! So, back to the point. I need help getting kids to practice- incentive Ideas that work for boys to encourage them to not need to talk me into faking a practice log, just to save from my own embarrasement of the truth! Secondly, which days should truly be our homeschooling days. The week follows now as this. Monday husbands day off, Tuesday-pub. school from 10-4 with too much extra time in between classes and too noisy for concentration to study offsite homework and 2 hour total drive time to get there.Wednesday- my husbands day off and I run errands with less kids and pick up the house from the week. Thursday school pub. school 10-4 another 2 hours drive time. Friday pub. school 10-4 2 hour drive. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, most of the time home by 5:30 pm and too tired to study with the boys after getting dinner for my kids, cleaning up the house, babysitting my now one year old girl who is climbing stairs now, yikes! My 3 and 5 year old boys tugging at my skirt to play with them hotwheels cars. Saturday is open day where we just go with the flow! Sunday is church, library, and walk or shop with one older kid amd 3 littles. I have been suffering with organizing all of this and I could use lots of help! Most help on the internet asks for money. With this many kids, I dont have it! Sorry this post was so long. I felt it detrimental to the understanding of my predicament!! Any suggestions are welcome, thankyou!!!!

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By: Marissa

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:59:55 +0000

We do our “summer break” in the month of April due to the awful heat as we live in the desert! I love having that part of the year off to enjoy the nice weather. It gives us opportunities to really enjoy hiking and family picnics. We like to have Bible study under a tree whenever possible.
@Amy I am also not king on home school Decembers! Ughh, it seems to be such a hustle and bustle… Thank goodness for online shopping during the holidays. My kids are older now though and I’ve run the idea by them to get away from the commercialized Christmas experience, focus more on the true reason behind the birth of Jesus, and move on with either an outing (a short trip during holiday), or one major item. They prefer the idea of having an outing. Yay!
I have a question I’d like to ask my fellow home school moms about: Do any of you have non-profits? I was thinking that this would benefit us so as to raise funds for our supplies (especially tech and STEM items). At the same time, supplying home school literature, curriculum links, resources etc… online.

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By: Amy

Sun, 28 Aug 2016 12:44:31 +0000

Our family uses a year-round approach now because it most closely resembles how things are in our lives. We only do school a few days a week and we’re always done before noon. However, we also take off tons of days in the spring and fall when the kids can play outside a lot. We don’t want to miss the fun! Taking a break from Thanksgiving til New Year’s seems to work for us too. I’m just not that motivated to school in December. Which type of schedule do your kids like best, Kris?

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By: Nikki

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:53:55 +0000

Our school year is fairly customized. We usually start in late July or early August and go through May, taking days off as we want to. But they are scheduled days off like birthdays or play dates. We don’t just wake up and decide not to do school. 🙂 Oh, and we take days off when my husband doesn’t work and when family comes to visit.

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By: Sarah

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:03:31 +0000

This is a great overview of the flexibility we have! I’ve decided to organize seasonally, with three-month quarters. We will definitely go year-round. In my state we have reviews so I mainly have to make sure I’m covered for that. For me the planning is pretty loose and the documentation of what we actually did is more concrete! I’m planning to write a post on planning… soon 🙂

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