txmommyofboys Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 What do Fridays generally look like at your homeschool? :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmommyofboys Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmommyofboys Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Fridays here are our make up days for the most part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) 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. Edited September 21, 2012 by BLA5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwickimom Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Math, reading/phonics, free reading, and French. Finish up anything that didnt get done during the week. Review whatever we went over during the week and take any quizzes, etc Every other week is homeschool group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2boys030507 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 On Fridays, we do Life of Fred, Creative Writer, Geography, Science Experiments and Greek Copy Work. Fridays are the day my kids get to do the curriculum they are excited about and we tend to only do once a week. They are fun but full days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Regular day here. We only have one car in our family so we drive dh to work on Wednesdays and that's our library/out of the house day. I'm trying to turn that into our art/music/review day but that's still being figured out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 We do all the extras we don't do during the week. So we do art, philosophy, poetry, Bible, history or science read aloud, LOF and BA, and math word problems. Piano is from 13:30-15:00. Fridays are also the day that we watch documentaries if we have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganW Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) 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! Edited September 21, 2012 by MeganW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Friday is just a regular school day :) I do the planning for the next week as soon as she's finished. Doing that then makes my weekends so much nicer :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Fridays at our house are... for catching up, cleaning, and the library (story time is on Friday). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Friday is just a regular school day :) I do the planning for the next week as soon as she's finished. Doing that then makes my weekends so much nicer :D This is how I handle Fridays, too. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorrelZG Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Just a regular day here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raceNzanesmom Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 We schedule field trips and appointments on Fridays, do our weekly state study, math and reading, catch up on anything we missed (today it's science because he had handchimes yesterday), play some games, and relax a bit with a good book, movie or just plain ole snuggle time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBanjoClown Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 It varies. Sometimes it is a regular school day. Sometimes we have a homeschool playgroup in the afternoons and so we do a half-day. Sometimes we take the day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmommyofboys Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Fridays here are our make up days for the most part. I forgot to add that we also do homeschool PE on Friday afternoons from 3-4:30 :auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmommyofboys Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Sounds about like my house on a normal day. Yes, but on Friday they do it all with a friend. :) Other days it's just the two of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyhock Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 We do a bit of a lighter day. Just math and English and science, then we finish off the week with an art project. Fridays are art days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paceofnature Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Finish up anything not completed, art and nature studies. Nice, easy day :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanikit Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhudson Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 :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!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicMom Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Friday is just a regular school day :) I do the planning for the next week as soon as she's finished. Doing that then makes my weekends so much nicer :D :iagree::iagree: - except often times we do school on saturdays too (my husband works 6 days a week) and we just take off when we need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mélie Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Normal mornings, then we go out to lunch and grocery shopping in the afternoon. They can usually convince me to go to a pet/toy/electronics store or a car dealership for some window shopping, so we make a full afternoon of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Like any other school day except my kids are more motivated to work quickly because they can have screen time when all the week's work is done. (We are screen free during the m-th.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakereese Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lea_lpz Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimeeM Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Fridays aren't used for sit down work. Every Friday our eldest attends an outsourced Latin class and we go to Mass; every other Friday we do both of the aforementioned PLUS co-op for both the DD11 and DS3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slojo Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in the UP of MI Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 We have an easy morning of read-alouds and math for oldest dd. Then in the afternoon the three older kids have classes with our homeschool co-op. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warneral Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnbacademy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Fridays here are: No Math or LA. AM: History projects, complete creative writing assignment, catch up on any loose ends. PM: Atelier Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Generally a normal day. It might be lighter if we did extra during the week. Today, however....I have been in ned and the kids have been playing wii! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoVanGogh Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellers Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 We have a short day of school on Fridays, we only do the 3R's. I like the idea of cleaning house on Friday. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Every other Friday we meet with our co-op friends for lit club and science lab. On the off weeks we have field trips with those same folks, or, if we take the field trip on Monday of the off-week, it would be a regular school day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshin Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 We do our normal Language Arts and Math blocks in the morning. The boys' Odyssey of the Mind team meets at 11:00 am. After OM, we go to the library so they can begin research on their science and history task cards for the next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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