I am always curious how other homeschoolers spend their days. So, I decided to post a typical day in our household for anyone else as curious as I. Here was our day today.
7:09am: I am woken by 5 year old daughter, as usual. She follows me to the bathroom and sings me songs while I shower, with me shushing her every few seconds not to wake up Daddy. She watches me get ready, asking me a thousand questions of which she already knows the answer. (I love this time in a child’s life and I know it will be gone much too soon.)
7:30am: We head out to the kitchen. She gets chocolate milk and I get coffee. I make banana bread and she chit chats some more. Then I get to check my emails and print off anything I need for the day while the other kids wander out. Once awake, they dress up like Hobbits and head outside to play Lord of the Rings. This is very typical each day.
8:00am: I call in the Hobbits and we all sit down for Bible Time. We decided last year that our Bible Time needs to involve consistent reading. So, we read a chapter each morning from the New Testament. Today we started Luke 1, each of us takes a turn reading aloud, including my 5 year old. They greatly enjoyed today’s reading. As part of Bible Time I will generally pick a song from our hymnal to work on each week. In this way, they get used to following sheet music and become very familiar with songs we sing at church. However, recently we have been learning the books of the bible in song. I am using Wee Sing Bible Songs.
8:30am: Breakfast is ready. After we all eat, the kids clean their beds, return books to the school room, brush teeth, and complete morning chores.
9:00am: We all gather in the school room. We begin the day with what we call Basics. Math, Grammar, Spelling, and Copywork. Generally we include writing as well, but the unit study we are in the midst of requires lots of writing in itself. Most of this can be completed on their own, with the exception of Spelling. My 10 year old daughter is much faster than her siblings. If she finishes ahead, which she did today, she reads her selected novel and/or works on 4H activities until everyone else is caught up. My 5 year old does Math, Copywork, and reads me a story. Today she is pretty fussy about completing her work, but on average is very interested in school.
10:45am: Short break time to ride bikes and jump on the trampoline.
11:00ish am: Return to the school room for group work. We are studying elections using Amanda Bennett’s Elections Unit Study. We watch a program on James Madison from the library and read his biography in our Scholastic Encyclopedia of Presidents
12:00: I begin lunch preparation and they get a break. They ride bikes for a while until it starts raining, then come in to eat lunch. Today it’s Dad’s World Famous Sandwiches, crackers, cucumbers, and sugar free lemonade. After lunch, they get a little more break time, then read independently. My 10 year old is reading the second Harry Potter (I know there will be some frowns because of that, but she just finished Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and likes variety), 8 year old son is reading Wishbone: Be A Wolf, and 5 year old is reading Boomer Goes to School.
Okay, I truly intended to finish the whole day in one post. But, it is now 9:00 pm, I am only halfway through the day, the kids are finally in bed, and I really want to watch Jane Austen’s Persuasion that I just got from Netflix today. Soooo, I will give you the second half of the day next time, I promise 
