Here is a Day in the Life at our homeschool, a great idea by Darcy in her ^Not Back-to-School Blog Hop!
Day In The Life
MORNING
I wake up when my daughter gets me up around 8-8:30am. Since I’ve probably been up reading until 2am, this can be difficult. She eventually succeeds and our day starts.
Now, just 3 days ago I finished updating our Craft Kitchen, so we’ve been excited to play with arts and crafts right away in the morning. If Daddy is home, we can give him our homemade craft, such as this heart we made yesterday.
Good morning Daddy, I love you!
Then, I quickly check my email and then fill the birdfeeders and hummingbird water, still in my pajamas. (We have no close neighbors to our mountain home, so I can get away with this.) After that it’s breakfast and shower.
After breakfast, I try to take advantage of my bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 4.75 year old daughter’s eagerness to learn! We have no set schedule times, but I do use Homeschool SkedTrack (free online scheduling) to get a gist of what our plans are. The most important subjects I want to tackle are the typical 3 R’s plus spelling.
Up to our Learning Loft to do some learning! This summer we dedicated this room to homeschool, sit-down type learning, although we usually sprawl out on the carpet to learn. Kept short and sweet, as Satori is still only 4. We spend on average 20 minutes each on 2-3 of the below subjects.
- Reading – Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Reading (on lesson 53 or so right now)
- Math – Rotate between Math-U-See Primer and RightStart A, sometimes a Singapore Earlybird workbook thrown in
- Writing – Handwriting Without Tears “Letters and Numbers For Me”, we’re 1/4 through our lowercase letters now
- Spelling – All About Spelling, we’re on lesson 10, Level 1
Satori reading
Here she is reading a Nora Gaydos Playful Pals book. She loves her HWT program, especially the coloring. She’s quite good at spelling, that is why we added All-About-Spelling so early, I believe it will be a key to help her read even better.
After that hour, I typically feel very good about myself. She is let loose on her computer to play educational games like ReadingEggs.com. I am nearby, surfing blogs like Well Trained Mind, and MDCs homeschooling section.
AFTERNOON
After lunch, we’ll read aloud our current book, I’ll have her color or play with a related toy while I read the book. We retire to our Reading Room Library which is also a new dedicated room we made this summer. Then we try to get some exercise - take a walk on our property, or head to a park, a few geocaches, or head to the library. This is the time I try to organize and clean the house, it’s a never-ending project to get this house totally organized as I’d like, but I’m getting there!
Satori
She will play most of the afternoon, and I will be planning, researching, browsing homeschool stuff. Since this is our first year homeschooling, I’m still doing a lot of research on particular homeschooling styles, curriculums, ideas, etc… I try to update my blog most days, so this is usually a good time to do that.
We may fit in one more 20 minute lesson of one of the subjects above if we missed it earlier.
Satori will try her best to write a “letter to mama” about how much she loves me and how she loves that I teach her lessons. 
She’s been doing this the past 4 days, and recently, she’s been trying so hard to sound out the words to write what she wants to say. This is even more of an incentive for me to teach her to read, write, and spell!
NIGHT
After dinner, we’ve been tackling art lately. Here’s what she did tonight:
Scratching our some color on this black paper…
A long time ago before she knew all her letters, we started “Alphabet Art“, but only did a few letters. Just this week Satori has been begging to do the rest, so we started again! Here is “Gift-wrap G” and “Hairy H”.
A mermaid with red hair and a lavendar swimsuit top. (Wonder why she has red hair, hmmm…) 
At bedtime, I will read a picture book or two, and then at least one chapter of our current read-aloud. Off to dreamland for Satori, and back to planning/surfing for Mom!
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Thanks to “Life with my 3 Boybarians” for this great idea! Head to their Not Back-to-School Blog Hop to read more!
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