Homeschool Schedule

We have been extra relaxed with homeschool I feel like things are just starting to normalize from being pregnant and having a new baby in the house. We have a temporary schedule right now that I thought I would share with you. I am doing kindergarten and a little preschool with my 5 and almost 3 year old.

630-8 Free Play/TV time/Feeding baby
8-830 Breakfast
830-9 Clean up/ Get Dressed
9-930 Language Arts (reading, phonics, writing)
930-10 Break/ Feeding baby
10-1030 Math (right now we are learning about money)
1030-11 Snack
11-1130 Science (this month is one section in Apologia's exploring creation with astronomy and one activity every other day with the magic school bus's "The secrets of space"
1130-1230 Free play (outside)
1230-1 Lunch/ Feeding baby
1-3 Quite time/ Nap time
3-4 Free Play/ Story time/ Feeding baby
4-5 Dinner prep
530-615 Dinner time
615-630 Clean up
630-7 Daddy time/Feeding baby
7-8 Bedtime routine
8 Bedtime

We are still working with a breast feed 2 month old and so far this seems to be working out great.  How do you manage your homeschool with a newborn? I would love to know any tips or tricks.

Thank you have a blessed day,

A mom around the clock

First week of homeschool update

          Well..... The first week was a success we did everything I planned and I felt it was manageable.  Carly did pretty well, we did have some hiccups in the focus department but I have hope for next week.  I have my vetiver, and tranquil essential oils coming in Monday. We will see if that improves things, crossing my fingers. Our schedule went very smoothly.  I made sure to have everything planned out so if I felt lost or confused I had something to look at to help me out. I want Carly to be able to know what's coming next too.
My schedule included things like each meal of the day, subjects and what to cover in those subjects, and chore lists for me and for Carly. I had everything detailed to the minute. We may have been off by 10-15 minutes sometimes but it really helped us stay on task and not spend to much or too little time on one thing. I will go into detail on how I schedule my homeschool days next week. Do you have any essential oil ideas for my almost 5 year old with possible ADHD or other ways to help emprove her focus or calm her down? Please let me know. Any information would really help. Thank you for reading, and have a blessed day.

Kindergarten Homeschooling Curriculum Choices

In light of officially starting kindergarten homeschool with my 4 soon to be 5 year old I thought I would share with you my subject and curriculum choices for the new school year. I would like to start by saying that I have looked in to many different types of curriculum trying to stick with a faith base especially in science. I would like to add that we are on a budget so this was a factor I had to consider. Many of the homeschooling moms I talk with from my church have chosen My Fathers World. I of course seriously considered using this it would be easy everything is planned out each subject decided and what to teach when and in what order and it is faith based. For Christian homeschooling mom not to mention a new Christian homeschool mom this seemed like a really great option and it's affordable. I did like it and would have chosen it if it wasn't for the fact that I really like more control and I have more of an eclectic homeschooling style. So I kept looking and this is what we decided to use.

Reading-

HOP- Hooked on Phonics 

How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons 

Writing- 

Basic dry erase upper and lower case writing workbook from Walmart

Kindergarten handwriting paper 

Science-

"Exploring Creation with Astronomy" from Apologia 

Social studies-

Home learning year by year- as a resource for units to cover 

Math- 

Home learning year by year- as a resource for grade appropriate mathematics topics 

Arts- 

Activites from science or social studies, and seasonal or holiday related crafts 

Music- online free piano lessons through https://www.hoffmanacademy.com

PE- 

YMCA membership 

Friday play dates at the Y

Swim lessons

Tumbling Class 

For kindergarten I have much confidence these options will teach my daughter everything and more that she needs to learn. When we start 1st grade and beyond I will add to this a more structured math and social studies curriculum. I hope this helps you when looking into curriculum options remember every family is different what works for us may not work for your family.