We don’t have a set daily schedule. We don’t eat meals at specified times or have a daily to-do list. Instead we tend to work in blocks of time. In the morning, we discuss briefly what blocks of time we are doing that day and this way the children know what to expect.

(Times given are approximate and are determined by the day’s activities)

Breakfast and Responsibility Time

(2hrs)

• Personal Bible reading and prayer time.
• Tidy room and make bed.
• Personal hygiene.
• Breakfast and put on bread machine
• General cleaning and management of the day to day clutter.
• Discuss the day and things to do.

Table Time (3 hours)

• Bible
• English
• Maths
• Science
• History

Family Activity Time

• Meals
• Watching movies
• Softball
• Bike riding
• Photography or computer with Dad
• Board games

Household Responsibility Time

• Car cleaning
• Yard cleaning
• Major housecleaning jobs (Bathroom, windows)

Family Reading-Time

• Purposed Reading as a family
• Other subjects such as history, science, literature, art, music etc.

Productive Planned Activity

(2 hours)

• Bible reading and word study
• Scrapbook or other self directed project
• Home or Life Skills… Sewing, cooking
• Foreign language
• Computer Skills (not Internet or games)
• Construction Projects–Legos, Carpentry
• Piano
• Read books

Productive Free-Activity

(2 hours)

• Bible reading and word study
• Scrapbook or other self directed project.
• Home or Life Skills – Sewing, cooking,
• Foreign language
• Computer Skills (not Internet or games)
• Construction Projects–Legos, Carpentry
• Piano
• Calligraphy or drawing
• Craft box
• Letter writing (Make a card for someone)
• Jigsaw puzzles
• Write a story
• Board games
• Listen to music and dance
• Do a nature hunt
• Trampoline
• Clean backyard
• Iron clothes
• Bake a cake
• Make popcorn and then make jewelry
• Have a bath and play in it
• Chess
• Do a word search
• Leaf or tree rubbings
• Make paper or soap (paper kit)
• Rehearse a play and put on show
• Write book review
• Science experiment
• Hide and Seek
• Create cubby house
• Make paper airplanes / dolls
• Garden
• Have a ‘drinking water contest’
• Do a crossword
• Look at photo albums or scrapbook
• Play dough
• Coin collections
• Stamp albums
• Press flowers

Veg Out Time

• Unstructured rest and relaxation time

Quiet Time

• Sleeping, praying, reading, playing quietly in room.