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Elementary School Students
Aer families choose online school, their next step is to choose how it works for them. Students and parents gure out when
they do their best work and what they’ll be working on. Every student is dierent and needs to nd the best schedule that ts
his or her needs. In this way, scheduling can be exible. Younger students, for example, might nd they work better rst thing
in the morning on their most challenging assignments or subjects. Schedules will also vary depending on the parent’s work
schedule and whether they are teaching multiple children, as well as extracurricular activities. Here’s what some typical days in
the life of our elementary school families might look like:
SAMPLE SCHEDULE 1
This is a sample schedule for a family with a rst grader
and a third grader. Wherever she can, Mom saves time
by combining subjects for her two children (she also has
a toddler running around the house). She tries to nish
school early in the day to give herself time to do some
housework, cook dinner, or even have a short rest.
7:30–8:00 AM – Third grader (who gets distracted
easily) works on Math while the house is still quiet
8:00–8:30 AM – Breakfast and Devotions
8:30–9:00 AM – Piano practice and Religion
9:00–10:00 AM – Math and Handwriting
10:00–11:00 AM – Language Arts/English, with
an emphasis on work that requires help from Mom,
including phonics lessons, spelling tests, and literature
discussions
11:00–Noon – Science or History
Noon–1:30 PM – Lunch, chores, and recess (one day
a week, family has a recess play date with another
homeschool family)
1:30–2:30 PM – Art or Music
2:30–3:30 PM – “Quiet time” listening to music or
storytelling CDs, playing with toys, etc.
SAMPLE SCHEDULE 2
This is a sample schedule for a family with a kindergartner,
a rst grader, and a h grader whose Mom also runs
a daycare business in the home. Mom combines the
reading time and arts and cras for her children and the
daycare children.
7:30–8:00 AM – Discuss the day’s lessons, chores,
and extracurricular activities during breakfast
8:00–8:30 AM – Gather materials and begin working
on lessons
8:30–10:00 AM – Kindergartner’s one-to-one
instruction
10:00–11:00 AM – First grader’s one-to-one
instruction
11:00–11:30 AM – Break
11:30–Noon – Instruction
Noon–12:45 PM – Lunch
1:00–1:30 PM – Story time for kindergartner, rst
grader, and daycare children
Distribute instructions for Language Arts/English
lessons so that questions can be asked during reading
and worksheets can be completed soon aer
1:00–2:30 PM – Instruction
2:30–4:30 PM – Daycare activities, including arts
and cras, coloring pages, free writing, working with
modeling clay, and baking
4:30–5:30 PM – Fih grader’s one-to-one instruction
7:30–8:30 PM – Make-up time for incomplete lessons
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