Almost everyone who homeschools has a schedule they do that is their own. While everyone does things differently, I've written down our homeschool schedule so other people can look at it and make a schedule of their own. I reviewed a lot of other people's styles before I came up with a schedule that worked for us.
This is our general daily homeschool schedule for our five year old kindergartener. We do units and I plan them out using the internet, library and creativeness. I view this more as daily goals, sometimes stuff comes up and we just don't have time for something and we will just do it another day. Or on some days we don't feel doing karate/dance/ practice so we don't. I'll go into better detail on what I like to accomplish during each part of our schedule below the list.
This is our general daily homeschool schedule for our five year old kindergartener. We do units and I plan them out using the internet, library and creativeness. I view this more as daily goals, sometimes stuff comes up and we just don't have time for something and we will just do it another day. Or on some days we don't feel doing karate/dance/ practice so we don't. I'll go into better detail on what I like to accomplish during each part of our schedule below the list.
Practice writing name and go over calendar - 5 minutes
Extra fun/learning activity - 5-30 minutes depending on the activity
Karate practice - 5 minutes
Dance practice - 5 minutesExtra fun/learning activity - 5-30 minutes depending on the activity
Karate practice - 5 minutes
Gymnastics Practice - 5 minutes
Creative Art Time - 5-30 minutes
Letter writing practice - 5 minutesCreative Art Time - 5-30 minutes
Letter sounds practice - 5 minutes
Number Practice - 5 minutes
Japanese practice - 5-10 minutes
Read unit books - 30 minutes
Unit activities - 1 hour
We also read from a chapter book each (ok, most) nights. We choose ones that interest him with pictures throughout. Right now we are reading Zombiekins. We also read a picture book of his choosing each day, sometimes before we start our homeschooling day, sometimes after, and sometimes around bedtime routine time.
The "extra" activity we do is really varied and I try to just do something fun. Sometimes we play with legos, some other manipulative, color, play a board game, put a puzzle together, etc. It depends a lot on our mood and what else we have planned for the day.
Creative art time is a time where he gets to just draw/paint/design with play doh etc. whatever he wants. We don't use coloring pages here, the idea is for him to use his imagination and gain some early art skills. I don't tell him what to draw but he sometimes asks for suggestions, so I'll say something like people or mountains, just to get his mind flowing. Sometimes he just draws on his own time anyways so we skip it during the homeschool part of our day.
We are learning Japanese as a second language. I'm not fluent by any means (I'm learning just as much as he is!), but I really think it's important to know a second in this day and age so we are starting young. We have a giant paper tree on our wall and each week we add a new leaf with a kanji (Japanese character word) to our tree in addition to learning the hirigana and counting 1-10.
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