Today begins our third week in our third year of homeschooling and using the K12 virtual academy.
I almost didn't homeschool the boys this year. I felt like such a failure at the end of last year that I thought there was no way I could do it again.
But, man. Am I glad I didn't give up.
Because this year is already going so much better than the last couple years and I have every reason to expect that it will continue to go well. Of course we'll have our rough spots, but as long as the good outweighs the bad, it's all good, right?
So, I thought I'd give a little glimpse into what our days are like right now:
8:00 a.m. ~ Boys get up, one of them showers, they get their teeth brushed, tidy up their rooms, make their beds, go downstairs and get started on their chores.
Their chores are: Feed and walk the dog, scoop the poops in the backyard. Unload the dishwasher. Take out the kitchen garbage (recycling and regular). Plus other chores as needed.
Have breakfast ~ they prefer just cold cereal, so they get that themselves.
They play on their computers until I'm ready to start school.
8:20 a.m. ~ I exercise. Or at least, that's the plan. :)
9:45 a.m. ~ Check my email, log in to the K12 site, settle in to start my day at the computer.
10:00 a.m. ~ Usually around this time we're ready to start school.
Right now we're only doing science, which we will have completed by the time we take our Christmas break. We'll add history to the core subjects in the New Year.
We do a lesson of science together. We sit on the couch with my laptop, a child to each side of me. We take turns reading through the screens, then we do our science test in an open-book fashion.
The boys then work through their lessons, with occasional help from me.
12:00 p.m. ~ We break for lunch. The boys make lunch Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, and I make lunch on Wednesday. They each picked two lunches they'd like to make; I taught them how to make it, and now we have a menu for the week so each boy knows what and how to make lunch.
Most days Xan is done school for the day by the time we break for lunch.
1:00 p.m. ~ Around this time, or maybe a little earlier, we head back into the office and finish up school.
And that's it! Pretty easy, right? Even if we have harder lessons on a day, there's plenty of time to get it done and still have our work completed before their friends get home from school.
In the afternoon, I write for a couple hours while the boys play. Usually they like to play on their computers and I'm okay with that as long as they play with friends when the local public school gets out.
We also have piano at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and karate lessons a couple nights a week for a couple hours each night, and scouts once a week.
I hope this helps put your day into perspective. How do our days differ from your own?
