Our homeschooling schedule

It was in the 90's a week ago and the 60's this week... Welcome to the Midwest!  I immediately went crazy planning school, making a fall house project list, and baked some muffins.  So this week I'll share with you what some of those things look like around here!  

Ever wonder what a 4th grade homeschooling schedule looks like?  Well look no further(=  Here's how we roll in our house.  Lily does Sonlight Curriculum (which I LOVE).  We throw in A beka Spelling, Singapore Math, kid's choir at church and Awana for Bible memorization.  She will be playing volleyball, skiing with dad and soccer for sports this year at a local, Christian school.  Believe it or not we are starting school today due to some long trips we have planned.  Love the flexibility homeschool offers!  Claire is in 1st and I don't print out schedules until 3rd when I feel they like a bit more ownership.  Claire will be doing Bob Jones curriculum 100%.  If you have questions on how we do             .  I would love to talk with you! Claire and River join in many things Lily is learning simply by default.  It's a beautiful thing!  

Subject	Day One	Day Two	Day Three	Day Four
Devos	John 1:1-18	John 1: 19-42	John 1:43-51	John 2:1-11
Awanas	15 min on memory 3x a week	15 min on memory 3x a week	15 min on memory 3x a week	15 min on memory 3x a week
Spelling / Vocab/poetry	practice test from the  A beka spelling/ poetry book list 1	study	study	Test
Geography	South America pgs 1-3 Wee Sing America, lear the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ this week!	4&7	5-6	8&9
Reader	By the Great Horn Spoon! Ch. 1	By the Great Horn Spoon!  Ch. ch 2-3	By the Great Horn Spoon!  ch 4-5	By the Great Horn Spoon! ch 6-pg 76
Read-Aloud	Moccasin Trail Ch.  1	Moccasin Trail  ch 2	Moccasin Trail  ch 3	Moccasin Trail  ch 4
Poetry	Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems pg 8	Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems  pg 9	Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems	Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems
Language Arts	Activity sheets wk one...

 

Writing	By the Great Horn Spoon’ pg 3  Dictation	discuss and write a  couple sentences in Personification	Short story  from the perspective  of the gold nugget	Short story  from the perspective  of the gold nugget cont'd
Science	Diary of an Early American Boy Author’s note, ch 1-2	pp 12-19	19-24
Math	Textbook pgs 6-8 wkbk exercise 1	Textbook pgs 9 wkbk excercise 2	Textbook pgs10-11 wkbk excercise 3,4	Textbook pgs 12-14 wkbk excercise 5

And don't worry, summer is still very much alive here.  We are just going to squeeze school in early mornings and quiet afternoons.

Readers are leaders

Do you have catch phrases you use in your house to inspire greatness?  This is one we use often.  Sometimes we just have to throw a party and it makes things so much more appealing.  So a friend and I joined forces to have a youth book club.  We have sugar, activities, and a little class like fancy drinks and such.  It's all very appealing(;  This month's read is ' The Lemonade War'.  I guess there's even some economics thrown in!  We are re-convening in mid-July to share thoughts and have a super-successful lemonade stand.  We are brainstorming charities that we could give some of the profits to as well.  So lots of learning, but lots of fun too!

Naturally some lemonade!

Pink lemonade cookies

Oatmeal chocolate chip muffins

Reading the first chapter to kick things off!

Day in the life

Here it goes...

5:30 AM-Alarm goes off... Pray for the kids, and Andy read Psalm 26.  

6AM-Meet a friend to walk to Starbucks and back.

7AM-Meet another friend for a walk.(What a great start to the day.)

8:05AM- Commence the dance; Give hugs, ask questions like, 'Have the girls done their 5 finger lists?, Has Bode eaten?' and so on...

8:30AM- Get ready time for Bode and me, girls cleaning up breakfast mess.

9AM-Lily gets going on some math, Claire, River and Bode hang out. 

                 9:45AM-Out the door for story time!

10-11AM We are at story time reading, learning sign language and doing a fun Easter craft.  Our librarian rules!!

11:15AM We hit the road with lunch in the car, heading to Home Depot to pick up paint for the chicken house(it's that nice(=) and light fixtures.

                                   Noonish we pull in and I feed this guy.

last snuggles before nap

Naptime success by 12:30, that's a good day!

12:30-2:30- School time!

I'm focusing mainly on reading and writing with Claire.Next year we start her whole curriculum.

  Did you know Geometry starts in 3rd grade?!?

Lily worked on a mini-book about Lewis and Clark, math,spelling, dictation, and lots of reading!

And he's up! We spray painted a couple of chandeliers and by 3:30 we were out the door for swimming!

Dinner with our sweet friend, Heather at  6! Heather spent the night and we stayed up til 12:30...Gotta love 20 yr-olds!

Full Moon drive home @7:30; Andy reads to the kids most nights.  Right now they are in this.  Anyone else tired?

Geography

This is one of my favorite sights!  Learning as a family,and you know they are soaking it all in. We just finished an amazing story on Lewis and Clark.  The kids were seeing where they traveled, and  where we will be traveling in the fall.  When they care,they learn!  

Side note; Sacajawea did the 8,200 mile journey with an infant on her back in bad moccasins.  Made me thankful for being a mom in this day, age and culture!
   

Around the World

Remember the great multiplication game, 'Around the World.'  We had some fun while extra family was in town.  Amazing what some competition can do for the mind!

Around the World rules:

1. Everyone has a chair.

2.  One person stands as the opponent sits. 

3.  Whoever wins that multiplication problem moves to the next person.

4.  Candy to whoever makes it around the world!!=D