10:00 a.m. - Wake up; Make breakfast10:30 a.m. - Breakfast
11:00 a.m. - Homeschool starts - Bible, writing, grammar
12:00 p.m. - Snack for my son & Recess; P.E.
1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:45 p.m. - Pick up time
2:00 p.m. - Son's nap for 3 hours and this is when we homeschool spelling, history or science, math and reading
3:10 p.m. - My part in homeschool is done, daughter works independently until dinner; This begins my time to do whatever is on my to-do list for the day
3:30 p.m. - Snack
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Start dinner prep
5:00 p.m. - Son wakes up from nap
5:30 p.m. - Dinner
6:00 p.m. - Kitchen clean up
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Evening activities (different each night)
9:00 p.m. - Son's bedtime cereal and milk; we usually eat a snack
9:30 p.m. - Son's bedtime
Family Freetime
11:00 p.m. - Daughter's bedtime
1:00 - 2:00 a.m. - Bedtime for me
Homeschool time is 11-12 in the morning and then from 2-5 in the afternoon. My daughter also has evening reading that she works in sometime before bed. Total homeschooling for the summer is about 4 hours. Once we get to fall, we will not have such a large break from 12 - 2 - that will be the time my daughter does Latin, Spanish and Logic (new subjects she will start in 5th grade), putting her at 6 hours of schooling. My time spent homeschooling goes from about 2 hours down to less than one in the new school year!
Sometimes I wake up before my kids and I try to be as quiet as possible, doing something like reading the news on my Kindle. However I've learned, whenever I get up, my son always seems to hear and gets up and doesn't get enough sleep and then he will be cranky all day - so I've tweaked my own schedule to try and sleep till he wakes up. I would like to get back to going to sleep by midnight and waking at 8, but that would mean putting my son to bed at 8 and that won't work for our family.
My son gets 12 hours of sleep at night, my 10-year old daughter gets 10 hours and I try and get at least 8 hours. All of these are for good health and the recommended times for the age/stage. I recently watched a documentary study on obesity and there is substantial evidence that babies and toddlers that do not get AT LEAST 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep at night, are at risk for obesity, diabetes and heart disease later on in life. I was surprised by this but I knew that 12 hours was good as my daughter slept for 12 hours until she was around age 5 and now sleeps 10 hours. Sleep really does make a difference in children's behaviors and ours!
