Kindergarten Homeschool Schedule: Day in the Life

Kindergarten Homeschool Schedule: Day in the Life

When I first started homeschooling, I thought I needed a color-coded schedule and hours of workbooks in every subject. But the truth is, kindergarten doesn’t need to look like school at all. Our days are simple, flexible, and built around connection. Here’s what a typical Kindergarten homeschool schedule looks like daily in our home.

7:30/8:00 – Breakfast + Slow Start

We are not morning people around here. My kindergartener loves morning snuggles and a story while I drink my coffee, so we ease into the day. After breakfast, we usually watch a short Bible story together before he dives into independent playtime, playing with baby sis, or morning chores— unloading the dishwasher, and if his room is overwhelming, he’ll clean that up after playtime, too.

10:00 – Learning Time with Mom

We don’t start “school” at a set time — our learning time for our kindergarten homeschool schedule begins when baby sister goes down for her nap. That’s the beauty of homeschooling: flexibility.

We start with a few minutes of independent reading so I can do my own Bible reading and encourage them to read on their own. Then we move into our main subjects:

• Language Arts: The Good and the Beautiful Kindergarten Language Arts
  
• Math: The Good and the Beautiful Kindergarten Math
  
• Phonics: We’ve used Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and Secret Stories to supplement phonics.
  
• Handwriting: A page from his handwriting book

Everything I choose is because it is open-and-go. For someone balancing running multiple businesses and with large age gaps, I do not have time for any lesson plan prep.

This whole block takes about an hour to an hour and a half. After that, he usually draws or plays in his room until lunch.

12:00/12:30 – Lunch + Afternoon Learning

After lunch, he does independent work on Acellus. We mainly use it for history and science, but he actually asked for extra math and reading, so he works through first-grade lessons there too.

This part isn’t necessary for every family — it just fits him. I love that is has goals each day and is teaching him to reach his goals independently. If you want something lighter, this is a great time for educational iPad apps (we shared our 10 favorites in this post: [10 Learning Apps We Love]

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2:00 – Creative Stations in our Kindergarten Homeschool Schedule

Once he finishes his goals on Acellus, he moves into creative stations. These are simple activities he can do on his own or with his older sister that encourage creativity and independence. Some days it’s drawing, some days it’s making their own creations out of cereal boxes, sometimes it’s puzzles. The key is giving space for independent, open-ended creativity.

What I Want You to Know

This isn’t a rigid schedule, and I don’t follow it down to the minute. It’s simply the rhythm that works for our family right now. The point of kindergarten homeschool isn’t to recreate a classroom — it’s to give your child time to learn, grow, and explore in a way that feels natural at home. Do not feel overwhelmed scrolling through tiktok watching people teach on a chalkboard with an entire day looking exactly like it does in a typical school.

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TLDR:

🌿 Kindergarten Homeschool Day at a Glance

7:30–8:00 → Breakfast + watch story with Mom + morning chore
8:30–10:00 → Playtime (independent or with baby sis until nap)
10:00–11:30 → Learning time with Mom

• Reading (independent)
  
• Language Arts (Good & Beautiful K)
  
• Math (Good & Beautiful K)
  
• Handwriting
• 12:00 → Lunch
• 12:30–1:30 → Ipad work (Acellus for science/history + optional math/reading or learning apps)
• 2:00–3:00 → Creative stations (art, blocks, pretend play, projects with big sis)

✨ Evenings → sports or family walk or outside play or family chores, dinner (using our dinner conversation prompts to foster learning conversations, and read-alouds.

Need more support? Check out these blog posts:

How To Start Homeschooling

How to Do Preschool at Home

Cheering you on,

Katelyn