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Our homeschool group does field trips on Friday, so I tend to use them as a field trip/hands on project day. It's when we pull ut science kits or art supplies and go to town, if we're not physically going to town:). That might change as she gets older, but for now, it works.

 

Never understood why people say that until I moved to a small town with no chick fil a or target lol! We have to go to town all the time!

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Independent Study days. I work, so dd works on math (Life of Fred), and the Creative Writer (we do WWS the other 4 days). I've also ordered her WP's Equine Science which she will work through independently - she loves horses and is starting riding lessons, so this was a big interest of hers. She will be enjoying it I"m sure, IF IT EVER ARRIVES :glare:, we have been waiting for more than a month! She also has assigned reading.

 

So it's a light day, she gets to hang out with her dad, and they sometimes go on a day trip. We chose this year to have her do different/independent stuff on Fridays, rather than just doing the next thing in the week's curricula, because we wanted to make room in the schedule for things she was interested in pursuing (horses & creative writing), and wanted her to develop some independence/time management skills and take ownership of learning in these areas.

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Punk does his computer science with DH and some of his independent work, if he has scheduled it for the day. (He makes a schedule of how he plans to breakdown his independent assignments each week. As long as he gets it done I let him do it as he pleases.) We do our science and read alouds, run a few errands, and then everyone works on thier own projects. It is also the day DH takes the kids on adventures, one on one, we take out of town field trips, and, when I can, the day I schedule appointments.

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Fridays at my house are just about like every other school day except:

Older dd gets out of school and hour early, and she has her private cello lesson.

I work late on Friday.

Schoolwork for younger dd is the same as everyday except she makes sure she is done before we pick up her sister, and we play at the park during her sister's cello lesson.

 

I've found that we do best if our schoolwork is the same each school day.

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My kids finish anything that they hadn't finished from the week, and then I am checking the week's assignment sheets and work. Often, I catch things that they "forgot" to do. ("I am pretty sure I did 10 pages of math, but I only have 8 here...") So they finish all that up & make any corrections needed. Then we usually have history club (SOTW activities) with friends around 11. Anyone who hasn't finished their work by then has to take it upstairs and finish before participating. We also have the mad dash cleanup before friends get here!

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We do a bit of school in the morning, after lunch the neighbor boy comes over to play and stays for 6 to 7 hours.

 

The boys run and play outside. run and play inside. Flip the mattresses off the bed and push them into the hall to make a fort. Then have a camp out. Some more running around with guns. They then attack me and steal a snack (prepared for this event). Eventually they put the beds back in the bedrooms and we all play a board game or two.

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In my home, we clean house on Fridays--all the laundry, dust and vacuum everything, clean the bathrooms, change the sheets on the beds. Once-a-month park day. :)

 

I've been doing this the last few weeks. I hate having 4 day weeks, but our weekends are shot and I needed "a day". Fridays is my day to clean, errands, park, do nothing....

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We do a bit of school in the morning, after lunch the neighbor boy comes over to play and stays for 6 to 7 hours.

 

The boys run and play outside. run and play inside. Flip the mattresses off the bed and push them into the hall to make a fort. Then have a camp out. Some more running around with guns. They then attack me and steal a snack (prepared for this event). Eventually they put the beds back in the bedrooms and we all play a board game or two.

 

Sounds about like my house on a normal day.

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While the private school near us is not on holiday we go to a Moms and Tots group - next year we will have to stop as my eldest is getting a bit too old for it but I have found my toddler needs a time when the attention is more on her. Then in the afternoon we go to a homeschool group which is just for socialisation so not much work gets done at all, but my chiklren are so little I think its fine. When the private school is closed we usually have a pretty normal day but include more physical activity - summer is coming here so my elder DD spends most of the time in the pool.

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:iagree:

In my home, we clean house on Fridays--all the laundry, dust and vacuum everything, clean the bathrooms, change the sheets on the beds. Once-a-month park day. :)

 

 

That what Fridays are at our house. We use a 4 day curriculum and then do 5 days of math and LA in 4. The house is clean so now we are going to the pool!:)

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Mornings are for math and piano, then we do composer study and something art-ish. Artist study and/or art project.

 

Early afternoons are P.E. class a the Y. Late afternoons is rest time for them, prep time for me: schoolwork, errand lists, food prep, iron clothes for church etc.

 

We do have field trips some Fridays, when we do Bible, math and piano and then go.

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We are a little bit more laid back on Fridays, especially if we have a crazy weekend ahead (like this weekend!). But it is also the only day that we don't have any activities or other commitments so it is also a catch up day some weeks. If something needs to be done, whether it is some extra school work, housework, errands, or anything else....Friday is the day to do it.

 

Today was the grocery, laundry, and getting ready for a yard sale. :glare: I just got a LOF book in the mail as well as a couple of things from RFWP, but I don't think I'll be able to get to them until Monday. :(

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had a busy week so instead of finishing 4 days of our unit, we've only finished 2 this week, but did school M-Th because we did half a day of school each day (that's all we ended up having time for). Today is a lazy pj day until 3:30, when we'll go to a sports class for both my kiddos. I am doing some review stuff today with things my dd could use more help with and an art project we didn't get around to yesterday, and educational video related to what we're studying. We got a late start. We slept in and vegged out in the morning. So, we didn't start school work until 10:30 and are now taking a break for lunch and we'll do the video and the art project after. We usually try to start school at around 8 am. I have stuff around the house we've got to do and we've been on the go all week so don't want to go anywhere today, but typically, today we would be doing a field trip.

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Our Fridays are short. We do quizzes (spelling and Latin). Then we do our geography read aloud, and either composer study or art. Then for the rest of the morning we play games--10 days in Asia, Scrambled States, of America, Renaissance art Go Fish, and Yahtzee were today's choices. Today we had medical appt in the morning and went to Tim Horton's for breakfast. The kids thought they had died and gone to heaven, so we may do that occasionally from now on.

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Fridays are one of only two school days where Rebecca does not have gymnastics.

 

Both girls:

Bible

Read-aloud

Art (Artistic Pursuits)

Geography vocab pages

 

Rebecca:

Latin test

Latin history reader

Hands on Equations

Singapore CWP

 

In addition to this, every other Friday is a "feast/celebration day" for whatever country we've been in for 2 weeks, so there's cooking to do.

 

Today, I also have to prepare for an event at Rebecca's gym tomorrow, so I have beans in the crockpot, dough for Mexican Celebration Cookies in the fridge, and some molasses cookies for the bake sale cooling on the counter. Later we'll make tortillas and break the pinata.

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Fridays include:

 

- Back-to-back individual violin practice first thing

- Chinese instruction with a tutor (though we will break from this to take advantage of a one-month long nature study class on Friday mornings in October)

- Finish up of anything we didn't get to earlier in the week

- Homeschool group in the afternoons

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Starting next week, some Fridays will be co-op days, so we'll go to co-op in the morning, stay for lunch and socializing, and then run errands/do the grocery shopping, and hit the library. We'll also listen to literature and/or music in the car. Friday nights are often family movie nights or poker/board game nights.

 

On non-co-op Fridays, in theory, Fridays are for science, art, and music study. In reality, we haven't quite made that happen yet, and it's usually a catch-up day for other work. Today, I am trying to get ready for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow morning, and it's gorgeous outside, so it was "play outside and enjoy your Legos and free reading" day. Oh, and DD baked blueberry muffins. ;) I really like the idea of scheduling other work four days a week and having a fifth day as a light/different/transitional/catch-up day.

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I have a friend who is a OG professional tutor, pianist, artist and former homeschooler with mostly grown children. They go to her house on Friday mornings and end up doing lots of un-schooly stuff (games, spelling bees, creating their own pokemon art --> cards, etc.) I go for a bike ride or an appointment, etc. By noon they come home and we usually don't do school. This week they were being quite disrespectful and I ended up taking the privelege from them and making them do the school we hadn't gotten to this week (a mid-week field trip interrupted some of it, but they *could* have gotten it all done if they hadn't been so off-skelter.

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Fridays are our day with friends. We get up late, eat a huge brunch, and head off to my dear friend's house. She is very ill and a group of us spend the day with her and her family. They have been days which we all wish would go on forever. The older children are doing a literature study together so a bit of school is done. I may stress that we aren't getting enough done the rest of the week but I am learning about priorities, friendship is one.

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It depends on the season, my mood and what is going on.

This fall, we are taking Wednesdays off school for morning sports and afternoon park group. That means we have a normal school day most Fridays. But we school year-round and I don't keep a super-strict schedule; it is likely to vary week to week.

Today, we took a class at a local art gallery. Next Friday, we have a doctor appointment in the morning and a play date in the afternoon.

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Ours can very quite a bit, but today we did Bible (with memory), history, literature, and had tea with homemade coffee cake. We were supposed to read poetry, but didn't get around to it. :lol: It's generally a catch-up day here. We also use Saturday as a catch-up, depending on how our week went...I'm hoping to fit in some 3R's, a drawing lesson, and start our Apologia ocean boxes tomorrow.

 

I also like to clean on Fridays so the house is fairly clean for the weekend. It's my DH's day off (if he's lucky), so we often go somewhere as a family in the afternoon.

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It's so interesting to read the responses isn't it? I like reading how other families do things.

 

Friday is our homeschool playgroup day. Usually we get home about 1:30 after spending the morning playing with our friends. This is the only time my kids get to freely play during the week, we don't have any neighbor kids to play with so it is wonderful to let them all get together and just play and all of us mums can sit around and talk. We have ages 9 down to newborns in our group. I love to watch the older kids interacting with the babies and littles. And then going off to do their own 'big kid' things.

 

In the afternoon we do a science/history/art project. Whatever hands-on thing we didn't get to during the week. We might read, we usually rest/nap. If I'm too worn out to do a project then the kids get to watch a video.

 

I might start a house cleaning time in the morning before we leave, we did that this week and it really made the day go smoother when we returned.

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