What time do you start school if you don't have outside classes?

[lynn]

Our goal most days is by 8:45.

[Ellie]

9ish.

[TXMomof4]

We start at 9:30-10 on days we don't have outside classes. After noon on gym days. We are NOT morning people and pushing it earlier just ends up in grumpy people all the way around.

[Mandylubug]

11 eta: we work to 5 typically and discuss science pr history and read alouds before bed typically. So we really school relaxed all day long.

[coralloyd]

8:30

[myfunnybunch]

We start at 9 a.m., dressed and with morning chores done. :)

 

Cat

[gingersmom]

I like to start between 8 and 9. 

[fairfarmhand]

9:30; so I have 10 minutes left to play on the WTM.

[linders]

7:30-8 am. On the 8ish side after scout/swim meet nights.

[MomOfOneFunOne]

AMDG

 

MWF - 8.30

TR - 8.00

S - homework what ever she needs whenever she wants but everything has to be done before 5. 

 

We do have outside classes -- one live, drama, and several online -- but they are later in the day and do not dictate start time.

 

On Monday we just get up and start school.  

On TR we go to daily mass at 7 and start school when we get home.  I cook breakfast while my kiddo does school work and her first break is brekkie or if she's really busy, she'll work through while eating.  :huh:

On WF we have adoration at 7 but it's longer.  Still, we start school when we get home and ditto the breakfast thing.

On Sat, she almost always has homework, mostly Greek translations and Great Books reading, and gets to it whenever she gets to it.  She generally likes to sleep in a bit and then goes out to breakfast with Dad, so . . . never first thing.

[Chris in VA]

We started around 9. Ds would do his devotions (reading 1 year bible) privately before that, dd would do hers with me. Most of the time we did those before 9 and started math at 9.

 

I was more of a rhythm/routine person than a time schedule person, tho.

[Cindy in FL.]

My boys are kind of staggered in their start times based on when they wake up. They start between 8:30 and 10:00.

[Tap]

We used to start at 8am because I had to be to work at 2pm and the kids wanted to be done completely before their friends got home from school at 230.

[Dmmetler]

9:00.  We start at 8:30 on co-op days so DD can get the small amount of work we do in addition to co-op before we go, because usually after co-op we end up spending time with friends at the park or going out to lunch or over to someone's house for some playtime.

 

 

 

 

[Night Elf]

We've never been morning schoolers. We've always started after lunch.

[coffeegal]

We start at 9 a.m., dressed and with morning chores done. :)

 

Cat

:iagree:

[Arcadia]

We try to start by 8am as kids want to play after lunch :)

[JennyD]

Between 7 and 7:30.  

[OK Family]

8am ish

[*Lulu*]

We are in the routine camp here; I only institute hard times for outside appointments.

 

Most mornings I start my one on one instruction time around 9am.

[Desert Strawberry]

1.5 to 2 hours after sunrise. Right now,8:30 ish. But later when the days get shorter.

Up with the sun (training toddlers not to wake at 4am), clean and dressed, chores, breakfast, right to work.

[Jayne J]

We start at 8 everyday, so I can be done with active teaching by lunch time. Some assignments carry over into the afternoon, especially for my oldest.

[whitestavern]

We start at 8 am.

[Nancy Ann]

We start at 9:am and have breakfast and chores done before.

[Corraleno]

The kids determine their own start (and stop) times. Depending on when they wake up/eat breakfast/finish chores, the "start" could be anywhere from 8:30 to 10:30, and the "stop" anywhere from 3:00 to 7:00, depending on whether there's a fencing class, violin lesson, competition, etc. But we also go year-round (with breaks for traveling, competitions, etc.) and they do a lot on weekends as well  â€” since we are mostly interest-led (except for math), the things they do in their "free time" are pretty much the same things they do for "school." E.g. after dinner, or on Saturday mornings, DD might be reading or drawing or working on Japanese, while DS is reading Greek or watching an astronomy lecture or working on his artificial language — the same things they'd be doing at 11:00 AM on a Monday for "school."

 

 

[kitten18]

Between 7 and 7:30. Dd is always ready to start early so I work one on one with her for a half hour or so before DS comes to the table.

[ChiMomNP]

We are starting between 9:30 and 11:00. Just depends on what he is working on that day. 

[Mena]

My high schoolers start around 8, the middle kids by 9 and the two youngest (kindergarten & 1st grade) around 10:30. 

[Soror]

Usually around 8-up until around 9. We are all usually up early anyway so it is nice to get our sit-down work before lunch.

[regentrude]

8am

[fraidycat]

Whenever we get around to it. Sometime between 10 and 1. It depends when we get up, eat, and get focused. We are night owls, so not morning people around here.

[Joyofsixreboot]

Between 8 and 8:30

[elegantlion]

Noon-ish, and we are much happier for it. Ds is not a morning person, neither am I. I can get my school stuff done before he gets up though. We're nicer to each other when we start later. 

[Critterfixer]

8 am. But I could really get into that start with the sun-up thing, because then we'd have afternoons off. Might have to see what the boys thought of that. They are both early birds as it is.

[Woodland Mist Academy]

1.5 to 2 hours after sunrise. Right now,8:30 ish. But later when the days get shorter.

Up with the sun (training toddlers not to wake at 4am), clean and dressed, chores, breakfast, right to work.

 

Do the bedtimes change throughout the year too?

[Tammi K]

8:30 but we have to be at the ice rink for 1.5 hours everyday so if we don't start by then, we would never get finished. Otherwise, I'm sure it would be closer to noon. We are NOT morning people.

[elfgivas]

8 am violin practice, every day....

and then academics until lunch

and then violin practice at 12:30 every day...

and then academics until

4pm violin practice every day...

and then dance/orchestra five nights a week.

 

and for the other,

9am violin practice very day

and then academics until 11:30

and then violin practice,

followed by lunch

and then academics until 5pm

then piano practice

and then dance/orchestra five nights a week.

 

i can't even let myself wiggle by 10 minutes, or its all over for me.

they are fine.

 

sigh....

ann

[Alenee]

Because of my work schedule, we start between 9-10am, chores done beforehand. We're typically finished by 2pm but that will change a bit after co-op begins. At that point, I may have to live with less sleep and start us at 8am.

[Mandy in TN]

Obviously, I am a night person, but mostly I am just a person who doesn't sleep. Anyway, morning is my alone time with my dh. He leaves for work around 8:30. I don't like seeing offspring until after he has left, and I have finished my coffee. Fortunately, all of my boys have been night people. Currently, the little man is up about 10am, and he starts school immediately after waking.

 

Mandy

[Julie Smith]

As long as the table school work is done by five all is good (abut 2+ hours)

 

I like the non table school as in reading, piano, and for youngest math to be done. But sometimes really good games happen.

[Berta]

We start around noon. We roll out of bed around 8:30-9am and then we do housework and run errands if needed. None of us are morning people, so this works well for us.

[Shawn On the Border]

We start at about 9:00. Sometimes we go to McDonald's for breakfast before school (decadent, I know, but it's nice to get out of the house). We take a long lunch break and stop about 5:30. Sometimes they have work to do on the weekends, like catching up on reading.

[Incognito]

8:30, but I'm thinking about making it earlier.

[bensonduck]

9ish. Usually right after DH heads off to work. We go wave goodbye and come inside and hit the books. :)

[AngelaNYC]

Noon.  Ds sleeps late which works for me since in the morning I drive youngest dd and dh to the subway, go to the gym with oldest dd, then come home, clean for 45 minutes, and shower.  Ds (who by this time has already eaten, cleaned his room, and showered, too) is also now ready to hit the books.  It works.

[Mrs Mungo]

8:30, we try to be done by the afternoon so we can swim in the pool. At least one kid has an activity in the late afternoon most days.

[Mom0012]

Between 7 and 7:30.

This is us. We often have activities in the afternoon, so the earlier we can start, the better.

[Mommyfaithe]

We are in the routine camp here; I only institute hard times for outside appointments.

 

Most mornings I start my one on one instruction time around 9am.

We start table time around 10. Before that, chores, phys Ed., music practice, reading or other snuggle activity.... We are a slow start family....:-)

[Just Another Jen]

I start at 9 with my 8yo. I work with him until around 11ish. Then we do chores and make lunch. After lunch I work with my high schooler. By the time we are done its 4pm. Then she has homework at night. She is a real night owl so this works for us. 

[Melissa B]

7:30 - for dd 15 and dd 13

9:00 - for dd 9 and ds 8