The Skeleton Schedule

No matter how we plan, schedule and organize our time, some days seem to just fall apart.  That's life in the real world. Home education is not only about teaching the academics, it's also about learning how to adjust to real life situations.  I have a skeleton schedule that I fall back on so I do not lose all my momentum.  A skeleton schedule is simply the bare bones of my day.  I set times to:

get up each morning

eat breakfast

eat the noon meal

read aloud

rest hour (an hour of quiet, alone time for all ages.  It is my daily life-line)

eat supper

bed time

In between these scheduled times I can neatly schedule in chores, seat-work, play, etc. but my simple skeleton schedule is what holds us together as a family when life goes awry.