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A day in the life of a homeschool family kitchen table

Someone made a comment about what must a day be like for a kitchen table. Which got me to wondering, what all do we do at our table?

Apparently this day we didn’t eat breakfast at the table, or I didn’t take a picture, so our day started with math. We try to do minute math, can you get the 25 problems done in a minute? When they do, they sign their initials and move on to another problem. They really enjoy cleaning the laminated sheets off after the end of the minute.

As you go through life, sometimes it’s blurry like this photo, and you’re left wondering what just happened here and why does it feel slightly off.

At the end of math our table is waiting to be cleared before we can continue our day. So the kids start cleaning it off for our projects and crafts for the day.

One of our frequent projects is painting peg dolls. The kids love to paint them for different time periods, characters in books, or whatever they like. Of course, quite frequently they just end up looking the same over and over again.

At the end, our table usually looks like this for a few minutes as they have to immediately add the peg dolls in with the other dolls they’ve made and start playing with them.

After some painting, and some reading, we ate some lunch, still surrounded by peg dolls.

Then a new Lego game, LEGO Robo Champ (affiliate link). We won it in a giveaway a year or two ago and while we really like it, the downside is it’s for 2-3 players, which always leaves someone out. I’ve thought about making a 4th robot for the game, but haven’t yet.

At this point of course we need a snack, this was my brief attempt to make queso not using Velveeta, which didn’t go well. Or it did the first time I made it, and then the second time it was just weird. So, my quest continues.

The tablecloth is put back on for the end of the day, debris from random projects gets strewn back over it, and the never-ending job of cleaning awaits again.
And thus the kitchen table’s day is done, my pictures are gone, and the kids will be cleaning it yet again.
It always intrigues me to see how people would homeschool today.
Now, what actually happened for us this week?

It’s been a week of sick kids, and hands-on learning. We’ve been working on some fun Roman projects this week. We made some armor, a shield, and a Roman standard.

Sorry for the picture quality, but this picture was taken while cuddling with a sick kid, who then declared himself to be well about an hour later. Our Roman soldier is almost completely outfitted, but I’ve got a few more Roman projects up my sleeve.

The most hilarious moment of the week came when Batman held up the cassette tape and said, “Mommy, what is this?” After I’d stopped laughing I explained what it was and how it was used. Then he disappeared with it saying it’d be great for his spy gear.
I was writing this while waiting for the kids to come home from breakfast with Jeff, and they’re home now. We’re going to re-do one of the field trips we missed earlier this week, heading to the children’s museum, as soon as everyone has their lunches made and are dressed, which means I better get busy making my lunch and getting ready for the day before the kids drag me off the computer.
Oops, I didn’t hit publish, that would help a lot for people to read it.
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14 responses to “A day in the life of a homeschool family kitchen table”
LOL Ok you’ve got me intrigued to see what our table goes through in day now!
Give it a try, it was a lot of fun for me!
What a great spin on “a day in the life” – the kitchen table idea is great. We have a dining room table that is regularly covered in some project we are working on, often sits there till we finally decide to finish it up 🙂 Your roman warriors look fantastic!
Thanks! I need to get the supplies for our other Roman projects, but I’m really enjoying working on it.
Great post! Your table has seen a lot of true hands-on learning. I hope everyone is back to healthy again!
Well……. In our personal family yes, but there’s other things going on that I’ll have to email you about.
This looks a lot like a day at my dining room table!
It’s kind of fun to see how days are going with things.
Now my table wants a table cloth!
My table says it’s what all the fashionable tables are wearing.
Love it! What a fun twist of a day in the life post. A sort of ‘If walls could talk…’ but instead it is ‘If tables could talk…’ I wonder what my table would say about all it endures over the course of a day?
“Help me?” I feel like that’s what mine would say often.
Our messes don’t confine themselves to our table. LOL I great peek at your daily life. What fun!
Our rarely confine themselves to it either.
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