How does homeschooling work? What do the families do all day?
As most families will tell you, there is no typical day. Homeschooling children learn through reading, through conversation, through play, through outside classes, through volunteer work and apprenticeships. Typically children will have some time on their own at home (to read, play, build, draw, write, do a science experiment, work on math) and some time with their parents (to get help, to talk, to do some kind of focused project together), and some time with others outside the home (in music class, in Scouts, in a homeschoolers’ book discussion group, in a volunteer job at a museum). Some families set aside a part of the day for focused academic work; others do not.
