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    A Day In The Life Of Secular Homeschooler: WhatEverWorks 

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    Published on 05-22-2013 11:15 AM
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    Welcome to a "Day in the Life of a Secular Homeschooler"! This week we are featuring a day in the life of....WhatEverWorks ! She is new to homeschooling with several months under her belt, is Mom to one and you can keep reading to learn a little about a day in her ...
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    A Day In The Life Of Secular Homeschooler: rueyn 

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    Published on 05-09-2013 04:39 PM
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    Welcome to a "Day in the Life of a Secular Homeschooler"! This week we are featuring a day in the life of....rueyn ! She has been homeschooling almost 3 years, is Mom to one and you can keep reading to learn a little about a day in her secular homeschool.....


    From the end of December through the beginning of January, we were a family. No work, no homeschool, no set schedule, no responsibilities. Eleven days of just living.

    The lack of rigidity allowed us to simply BE.

    For days after Christmas, my son was upstairs in his room, building kit after kit of LEGOs while my husband and I went about our own lives reading books, watching movies, playing video games, and resting.

    There was no squabbling, no feeling of restlessness – just a sense of togetherness that, to be honest, has been absent for a very long time.

    The lack of rigidity allowed us to simply be.

    While dh went back to work last week, the public school system was still out on break, so I let the Kid continue his vacation, too. And once he’d finished his Christmas building and gotten over the worst of his illness, something beautiful happened: he asked me if we could watch a video together. Not just any video, but “the one about cells and germs“. Of course I said yes.

    The following day, we were both well enough to go on an extended nature walk, jumping right back into our long-term, intensive study on how local beavers are affecting the environment of our stream.

    In the days following came another video, this one about the Great Barrier Reef, then further research on the Periodic Table, an art project, a book on germs, “What Happened Before the Big Bang?”, owl pellet discussion and dissection… ...
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    A Day In The Life Of Secular Homeschooler: MrsLOLCat 

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    Published on 04-04-2013 07:09 PM
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    Welcome to a "Day in the Life of a Secular Homeschooler"! This week we are featuring a day in the life of....MrsLOLCat ! She has been homeschooling for 4 years, is Mom to 2 kids, considers herself a jill of many trades and a master of none(don't all Moms feel like this!)and here is a little insight into her homeschooling day!


    Our days vary widely here at Sunnyview, but for the sake of sparing you all my horrendous Tuesdays, I'll pick a different day to share. Today happens to be Thursday, so let's roll with that.

    This morning, I rolled out of bed around 8. My alarm goes off at 7:45, but usually my husband uses it as his cue to get up and moving for work (his alarm goes off at 7). By the time I roll out of bed, the kids are up, have their beds made, are dressed, and are downstairs scrounging through the fridge and pantry making their breakfast. On the weekends, I make a lot of things like homemade breakfast burritos, granola, homemade Pop-Tarts, etc., so they always have several ready-made choices waiting. My son eats, brushes his teeth and hair, and feeds the cats. My daughter eats, brushes her teeth, brings me her hairbrush and the detangling spray, and sometimes lets the dog out. Meanwhile, I'm getting dressed, begging my husband to fix coffee, feeding the fish, cleaning the cats' litter boxes, shoving a banana down my gut, and brushing my own teeth before tackling the girl's hair.

    Once we're all done with the morning chores, we head up to the school room. My goal is to start school at 8:30; usually it's more like 8:45 if I'm honest. Still, that's not bad considering the public school starts at 9 and doesn't get out until 4.

    We start with our 'together' subjects - history, science, and these days, a writing unit. We're in the middle of a poetry unit this week, so we're clapping syllables and writing a haiku today. The kids performed a couple of quick experiments to see how sound moves through solids, and then my son took a history quiz while my daughter added stuff to her giant timeline. ...
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    A Day In The Life Of Secular Homeschooler: mommyboo 

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    Published on 03-06-2013 04:39 PM
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    Welcome to a "Day in the Life of a Secular Homeschooler"! This week we are featuring a day in the life of....mommyboo! She has been homeschooling for 3 years, is Mom to 2 kids, and here is a little insight into her homeschooling day!


    Hmmmm, what is an average day of homeschooling in our home? To be honest, I don't think there is such a thing, at least not this year! This is my first full year homeschooling both of my kids. They are 9 and 11, one boy and one girl, which can be a challenge some days.
    Our days usually start out around 8am with me yelling or badly singing something up the steps to wake the kids up. My son wakes up laughing, my daughter...well no matter what you do she just simply hates to wake up lol! The following hour usually comprises of me trying to get the kids feed and moving, and them trying to lay around or play with toys. Once we get moving though, that is when things get a bit crazy!
    Right now as I am typing this, my son is running back and forth from the computer room to the living room and crashing on one of our couches! See, crazy! This is what happens between lessons here! My son running around, my daughter yelling at him to settle down or telling him he is nutty, and me just shaking my head and trying to not laugh or yell...depending on the situation! I could not tell you how many times a day I have to remind the kids to focus and do their studies! Although I can laugh at it as I am typing, there are days when I just can't wait for the day to be over.
    I love being able to be home with and homeschooling my kids, don't get me wrong, but to be honest, my two favorite parts of the day are waking them up in the most obnoxious way I can think of ( I see it as my way of being silly and weird), and when all their lessons are done and I can look at what they have accomplished and be proud of them.
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    A Day In The Life Of A Secular Homeschooler: gonyere 

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    Published on 02-14-2013 12:44 PM
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    Welcome to a "Day in the Life of a Secular Homeschooler"! This week we are featuring a day in the life of....gonyere ! She has been homeschooling all her life, is Mom to Andros & Keegan and here is a little insight into her homeschooling day!


    Wake up, eat breakfast. Play. Read some books. Maybe watch something on PBS Kids or an episode or 3 of The Magic School Bus. Play some more. Eat lunch. Play some more. Read books. Color/draw/paint. Play. Eat dinner (maybe help cook depending on what we're having). Clean up the house. Watch a move or tv show or play video games or play & read some more books. Brush teeth, and put PJ's on. Go lay down and read more books.


    You can learn more about gonyere via her blog, Todo en Tiempo



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