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Q & A- Hours of our schooling
Jen asks, "Do you set hours you home school? May I ask what your hours are? You seem to have full busy days :)"
Great question, Jen!
Do I have "set hours" for our homeschooling? Hmmm, in my mind, no. We start when morning routine (breakfast, dressing, bed made, teeth & hair brushed) is completed. While kiddo is doing her teeth and hair, that is when I usually go up to the school room with the assignment sheet in hand and stack her books & cards for the day. I've been doing this for years. I'm sure she could manage without it, but it even helps me see what I might need to print off or set aside, etc.
She usually starts eating breakfast about 7:30am (it's been a bit earlier as of late, with the sun rising earlier) after a few minutes taking care of Theo and chatting to him. By 8:30 she's nearly always ready to start lessons, again-- if not sooner.
Sometimes there's a little mid-morning snack at around 10:30.
Lunch is mostly from noon to 12:30-12:40, depending on what we're having for lunch, how long it takes to make, and what we're watching during the lunchtime (Last two days has been United Streaming movies on the Industrial Revolution, last week it was some DVR'd episodes of Leave it to Beaver... things like that ) or listening to on iTunes.
In a normal, full day (I didn't hold back assignments for something else we're doing) most everything is done by 1pm. Handicrafts, projects and sometimes science experiments will come afterwards, thus taking us till 2pm.
Of course, not every day runs 100% smoothly (like yesterday when my computer wasn't reading a CD I'd put in and singing had to take place upstairs), people call, something comes up, etc. and our day might go longer, say till 3.
That probably seems like a LOOOONG school day, but we're so relaxed it doesn't seem long. The majority of the days do NOT run that long, like I said- usually ending at 1pm. But even then the afternoon hours, at least until neighbor friends are available for playing, are spent doing something enriching.
It works for us!
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We start at about 9:30 (it's been later since the time change and we're still struggling to spring forward) and take about the same length of time as you do.
Hope all is well with your family. God bless.