Homeschool in less than an hour a day
You can get all of your daily homeschool requirements finished in less time than it takes for a grocery trip.
Think you don’t have time to homeschool? Think again! You can homeschool your children well in less than an hour a day.
Hi there sweet friend.
Is this season of your life busier than you’d hoped it’d be?
As your child gets older and as you end day after day in exhaustion, you are probably wondering how you will possibly fit any homeschooling in when the time comes.
Well, as the mother of 8 children, I can assure you I understand. While I won’t tell you it gets any less busy, I will say that there is hope.
I have a few tips that may help you spend less time “doing school” and more time enjoying your family.
While I am grateful for the homeschool pioneers of the past who paved the way for us and I don’t envy their facing arrests. I will say a tiny bit of me envies their lack of choices for schooling at home. We are bombarded with so many choices for homeschooling these days. It can be overwhelming to say the least. Thankfully, I have never had the opportunity to go to a large homeschool conference with vendors. It would have been too much for this homeschool fanatic!
So, where do you begin?
Choose a simplified curriculum
Some important features to look for:
- Sticks to the most important points as a solid educational foundation.
- Without unnecessary busy work or fluff just to fill time.
- Encourages independence and self-teaching
Robinson Curriculum is Simple
I have found Robinson Curriculum to be all of those things and so much more.
Created by a scientist homeschool widower, named Dr. Robinson, Robinson Curriculum (RC) isn’t highly marketed but it is easily used by 60,000 students with much success.
The surprising part is the program’s simplicity. It has cut out all the extra distractions to make for a clear school day consisting of the basic three R’s: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.
Don’t let the simplicity imply cutting corners for a quality education!
A gathering of solid literature and a dependable system for math.
One that teaches everything from phonics to physics training children to learn and think for themselves.
Reading
The reading is based on books from before a time when additional propaganda was as acceptable as it is today and before so much watering down of education took place. The books are set up in one book list that starts from pre-reader and goes through to high school.
The RC booklist covers a variety of subjects:
- World History
- American History
- Science & Nature
- Language Arts & Literature
- Theology
- Government & Economics, and
- Ethics
I love the fact that my children are learning history from those who lived it rather than from a modern author who wrote a book about their interpretation of history.
Having our children read great books can also expose them to better grammar and a more rich vocabulary and in turn could produce better writers and speakers.
Writing
Each student writes a page a day about whatever they choose. This is corrected daily by you and then fixed by the student.
Minus teaching your youngest students, this is the bulk of your responsibility for the whole day.
Math
Math is a major component to the foundational building blocks of a good education. It teaches rational reasoning and encourages mental discipline. One important fact that my own education failed to teach me is that math is the language of science.
Of the many differences that sets Robinson apart from the rest, mastery is the key for moving on to the next concept or step. So it is not set up in grade levels.
Saxon math is the recommended program for RC students. The original Saxon math is a solid mathematics program that encourages self-teaching therefore requiring less of you as the parent and not enabling your child to depend on you to get through the roadblocks.
Here is a Saxon math resource that may help you.
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With all this schoolwork I mentioned, it may seem impossible to imagine spending less than 8 hours a day on schooling. Of course the student will spend more than an hour on their schooling each day. The typical basic RC student day is 2 hours of math, 1 hour of writing and 2 hours of reading – fitting vocabulary in the last 3 hour time slot.
Robinson Curriculum is straightforward:
A lesson of math – they mark their own work against the Answer Key.
A page of writing – on any topic they want. You mark it for errors.
A few vocabulary words – use flashcards or the vocabulary exercises.
A couple of chapters of reading – they go from Book 1 – 150 over time.
Robinson Curriculum | robinsoncurriculum.com
I spend about 15 minutes each, working with my smaller children starting with the youngest first to give them personal time. As ability allows, I take them through Alphaphonics, lesson by lesson until they are able to read without my help.
They learn math facts without my assistence. Once they have those two foundational things down, they are set to go without being held back by my assistance.
From this point on, the only thing they need me for on a daily basis is to give feedback on their daily writing assignments. So the time I spend on a typical school day will lessen as they all become indeoendent readers.
You can homeschool in less than an hour a day
You can homeschool in under an hour a day. With a few simple decisions and a little bit of preparation, your homeschool can be one of joy and order, leaving room for household chores, character training, family business, and all the other things like picking up groceries.
