To take a look at what our together time looks like now with family style learning across all ages, read about Our Homeschool Morning Time. I clean up breakfast and set up for our school time while the children go back to their playing until I call us together for Together Time.
We get dressed, eat breakfast together, and send my husband off to work. These trays have simple hands-on activities like puzzles and fine motor skills. They look at books, color, play in our sensory space, or work with the trays on our tray shelf. At 7:00 I begin to make breakfast as the children come out of their rooms. We spend that time reading, journaling, praying, preparing for the day, working out, or just sitting and sipping coffee. My husband and I are awake an hour or two before the children wake up. Related: 100 Living Books for the Early Years Morning Routine Now I will go into detail about each segment of our day. Scroll down to read each section in more detail. At the bottom of this post, I give you ten tips to help create your own family rhythm!
I wanted to share with you our entire schedule, not just the "school" part because I want you to see it in light of the big picture, in hopes of helping you discover what works best for your family. I am equally passionate about giving myself rest by creating margins in our routine for nature, reading, and sipping coffee.
Sundays are reserved for worship and extended family meals and playtime with cousins. We guard our dinner times and weekend mornings for family togetherness. Fridays are reserved for Auditory Verbal Therapy and time at my mom’s house or a field trip that relates to what we are learning. We say “no” a lot and have zero regrets about that. I am strongly passionate about giving children structure, as well as room to explore and play with no strings attached. I do this by using an adhesive-backed velcro strip on my wall and then cutting pieces of the soft side of the velcro on the back of each card. I set it up in such a way that I can put the cards in order for each day and move them around when things shift and change. Honestly, all of us use and love having it. It is especially helpful for me to look at throughout the day to recall what we have going on and for my children that do best knowing what to expect. We rely heavily on a visual schedule using these Daily Rhythm cards. I do like to have general times in mind for our days, but I try to keep our days open with a lot of margin so that when things don’t go as planned, there is room to shift things around. Rather than trying to stick to a rigid schedule, I have found that creating a general rhythm for our days helps us all feel more in control and at peace, without feeling like a failure if things don’t happen at exact times. Homeschooling with a Baby in Tow (2019).Our Homeschool Daily Rhythm With a Toddler and Baby (2020).Our Homeschool Daily Rhythm with Two Toddlers (2021).Homeschooling Year Round & Summer Daily Rhythm (2022).Related: 5 Intentions for the Early Years Our Family Rhythm Through the Years If you're interested in seeing what our different rhythms have been like with multiple ranges of ages, through many different seasons, I've shared those below. Our rhythms and routines have changed over the years as we have added children and our now "preschool-aged" children don't follow this rhythm because we are also homeschooling older children. : This blog post was originally written in 2017 when my two oldest children were ages 3 & 4 years old and we were not doing formal lessons yet.
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