A Daily School Schedule

You remember getting your daily schedule when you were in school. 1st period homeroom, 2nd period history, 3rd period Spanish and lunch, etc., etc. Homeschools need a daily schedule too and the challenge really comes when you have to schedule two or more children. The most students I have ever had to schedule and work with daily at home is 4. oh, and I had a baby in tow when schooling those 4. This year I just have two students so our schedule is not very complicated.

You can borrow my schedule and change it up to work for your family. We use a Charlotte Mason/Classical style of homeschooling. What that means in practical terms is that we don’t always have the typical classes that you find in a traditional school. We have Bible study, nature study, assigned reading, copywork and narration in addition to the more traditional classes of science, English, mathematics and history.

One big lesson that I have learned in my 17 years of homeschooling is that we don’t have to have every subject every day! We do have math every day. We do read and narrate every day.
We have science every day beginning in the 9th grade.

That’s where the every day stuff ends though. We have Nature Study three days per week. We do copywork two days per week. We have art history and art two days per week. Normally we have a Bible Study three days per week (this year we are studying Romans) but sometimes we switch it up with a Hymn Study. We study Latin three days per week as well.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday:
9:00 – Math (Algebra and Gamma Math-U-See)
9:30 – Latin (Latina Christiana)
10:00 – Science (Apologia Biology and Apologia Zoology plus Nature Study)
10:30 – History (Tapestry of Grace Year 3)
11:00 – Reading and Narration (Selected Reading)
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Bible Study, Reading, quiet time, outside time (Romans, Hymns)
2:00 – Focus Room Cleaning and Organizing
2:30 – English (Myths, Legends and Tall-Tales, Pathway Reader 5th grade)€
3:30 – Free Time

Tuesday and Thursday:
9:00 – Math
9:30 – Copywork (Spelling Wisdom book 1 and 3)
10:00 – Art (Rod and Staff, Tapestry of Grace and other projects)
11:00 – Art history (Tapestry of Grace)
11:30 – PE and Health (anatomy and physiology, YMCA 3n1 program)
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Reading and Narration (assigned)
2:00 – Focus Room
2:30 – Independent Reading, Independent work (This is catch up time used for reports, research, etc)
3:30 – Free time