Daily Homeschool Rhythm

• Quiet time, planning
  • Kids: reading, building sets, coloring
  • Me: coffee, calendars, catching up on news
• Breakfast
• Morning work
  • Kids: hygiene, make beds, pets
  • Me: work from home to do list
• Morning lessons
  • Together: workbooks, calendar, focus of day
    • Monday: music, ballet
    • Tuesday: language arts and social studies, kitchen activity
    • Wednesday: math and science, forest school
    • Thursday: health and language arts
    • Friday: math, game days and book clubs
• Free play
• Lunch
• Quiet time
• Afternoon lessons
  • Together: arts and crafts, theme of the week
    • Monday: movement, crafts
    • Tuesday: Poetry Tea Time, reading
    • Wednesday: math games, science activity
    • Thursday: errands, language arts
    • Friday: family time
• Free play, outside time
• Dinner
• Family time
• Prep for next day
• Rest

Once every few months, I’ll actually jot down everything we do during a week just to get an idea of where our time goes. It’s a very helpful snapshot.

This is our typical daily homeschool rhythm. It ebbs and flows throughout the week, with work schedules, classes, field trips and errands mixed in. But on a typical day, this is how it shakes out.