Homeschooling: Embracing Rhythm and Flexibility

Arrhythmia. An irregular or abnormal rhythm. That’s us! 🙋‍♀️ With a 7th and 9th grader, structure happens with a weekly check list. Doing Challenge with Classical Conversations means accountability. Their peers and director know when they’re slacking. That makes the check list usually gets done… at some point. I know many homeschool families live on the Monday to Friday schedule; we don’t. With kids at two different CC campuses, some of us will be away from home two days a week. I grew up doing homework at night and on weekends - I survived. If that’s when happens, that’s when it happens. I’d much rather be able to take off on a Friday to go to local play with a homeschool group than to be rigid. An hour of math on Saturday afternoon never killed anyone. 👉Morning time - Usually about 10 AM we gather. Three times a week as a group we do Bible, history, timeline, CC memory work, geography, and lots of library books. 👉Math - It’s taken nine years for me to become consistent with the older ones. Thank you @nicolethemathlady for making Saxon actually get done. 👉Handwriting - It’s a work in progress. 👉Reading with mom - The now 3rd grader is good at making sure this happens! 👉Food - We will always eat🎉Sometimes it involves meeting Dad for pizza - claim those homeschool perks! 👉Time for reading, game playing, baking, crafting, cleaning, laundry, bike rides, piano practice, dog walks, puzzles, free writing, Rubik’s cubes, and lots of independence. 🤣Crap. Sure sounds like I don’t have rhythm. Do what works for you. If it’s not working, try something else. Surely I’m not the only one! @wilkinsonnest Day 2: (lack of) Rhythm #buildingournest 📸June 2022, Arkansas Avoiding rhythm 😉