How I home school our teen: our lesson schedule

Today I  am sharing how I teach Mr 14 at home. In this post I am sharing what our lessons schedule looks like, including a copy of the daily schedule I use to stay on track of what subjects we need to be doing any given day. I also share what we have used in our curriculum this past year. I hope this provides you with some inspiration as we are beginning to look at planning our homeschool lessons for next year.

A day in our homeschool

Every day  in our family starts the same as everyone else. We have breakfast, get changed, brush our teeth and do our hair.

Then everybody sets to their chores.
For Mr 7 and Miss 5 check school bag is packed with lunch, drink bottles and homework.
Mr 14 is to take out the trash,
clear the table, make his bed and open his room window.
We are out the door by 8:10am to drop off Mr 7 and Miss 5.

 By 8:45 am homeschool begins. I have chosen Mondays schedule to use as an example of how a day of homeschool goes for us

8:45 - 9:35 am Spelling
9:35 - 10:35 am English
10: 35 - 11: 35 pm Math
11:35 - 12:15 pm lunch
12:15 - 2:15 pm Science
2:15pm We are done for the day.

Time:	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday		Friday	Notes
Morning Chores
8:45 am	Spelling Grammar	English	English	English		Spelling Grammar
9:35 am	English	Maths	Maths	Maths		Maths
10:35 am	Maths	Coding	Art lesson	Economics		English
11:35 am: Lunch
12:15 pm	Science	Elective Unit History	Elective Unit Geography		Life skills	Catch up
1:15 pm to  2:15 pm					Health
After school Activities							Notes:

Some days we can get through our work quickly, especially if we have been learning the topic for a while and other days we need more time. On Friday I leave a 2 hour block in our schedule to use to catch up on any assignments, if he needs more time on them. This helps us to stay on track and affords us flexibility in our lessons when they are a little more challenging.

What is in our curriculum

Maths

Materials: Notebook, white board, markers, manipulative's and computer.
Excel Advanced skills, Start Up Maths Year 3 workbook; By Damon James.
Khan Academy website.

English

Materials: Notebook, whiteboard and markers.
Heroes and Villains workbook; By Sonya Stoneman.
Excel Basic skills, English Year 3 workbook; By Jane Baker
thisreadingmama.com website.

Note: Extra reading is done daily for at least 20 minutes and is interest led by Mr 14. He will read a chapter, sometimes 2 and retell it to me in his own words.

Science

Materials: Notebook, computer and any necessary experiment/activity materials as required.
Excel Basic Skills, Year 5 to 6 Science and Technology workbook; By Peter Clutterbuck.
Scratch website for coding.
ducksters.com website and good old Google for research.

History and Geography

Materials: Notebook, compass, computer, printables, World atlas and globe.
History and Geography Alive 7 workbooks; Too many authors to type.
ducksters.com, Khan Academy, Google websites for research.

Note: art lessons are based off of the topic we are covering in these subjects at the time.

Health/ Life skills

Materials: Notebook, Mum and Dad, computer, life interests and experiences.
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine
http://www.ducksters.com/science/biology/

Economics

Materials: Notebook, Mum and Dad, computer, life interests and experiences.
Humanities Alive 7 workbook; By Stuart Boyle, Jan Dunne and Adam Smith.

Spelling

Materials: Notebook, white board, markers, manipulative's and computer.
LogicofEnglish and thisreadingmama.com for help and resources.

Grammar

Is covered in our English books and we usually build our lessons around what Mr 14 is learning in them and that works well for us. englishgrammar101.com
provide brilliant online lesson activities that we have found really helpful when big guy gets a little stuck and then there is also Khan Academy, they offer Grammar lessons too.

Physical Ed

Physical Education is covered by us doing seasonal sport and physical activities as a family at least 3 times a week. Then, we have Mr 14's Martial Arts class after school that we are testing out, we are attending once a week  in term 4 for the end of the year. 

So, that's it! That is how I teach our teen in our homeschool!

Your friend