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I thought I would share how a day of schooling goes for us. I won't bore you with all the details of diapers, arguing etc. because I don't have time. The kiddos are watching a 30 minute David & Goliath cartoon

I wake up at 6:00am. The kiddos have their alarm clocks set for 7:00am if they wake up earlier they  start brushing their teeth and picking up their rooms. They are not allowed to come downstairs before 7:00am.

At 7:00am the kids have an hour to get their morning chores done & eat. They have to be in the schoolroom at 8:15am. This gives me time to drop Brent off at school.

8:15-8:30am we start with Bible from My Father's World. My two youngest might join in or might not.

8:30-8:45am on Monday they will copy the Bible verse for that week. On Tuesday the two older ones will write it from dictation. I put any hard words on the board. Caleb doesn't do this. He practices his penmanship.

8:45-9:45am. Josh & Annette do math. If I need to work with one child, than the other will do cursive or spelling. For instance; today Josh needed help, so while I helped him Annette worked on her cursive. If Annette doesn't need help with Math than she will start immediately at 8:45am. While they do math I work with Caleb. Usually this will be enough time to do reading & phonics with Caleb.

9:45-10:00am. Spelling for Josh & Annette. I'll work with Annette while Joshua copies his spelling words.

10:00-10:20am. Annette does Primary Language Lessons, Josh does Intermediate Language Lessons & Caleb does Language Lessons for Little ones. Sometimes this will take more than 20 minutes if I'm needed by more than one child.

10:20-10:55am. Geography. They will have a snack by this time. It's something that they can eat in the schoolroom. Carrots, granola bar or a dinner roll.

10:55-12:00 Reading. Annette can pretty much do her reading on her own. I usually listen to Josh read because he still needs help. Caleb already did reading and he will start math.

We have lunch and than science afterwards. From there we have quiet time. By 3:00pm Brent is picked up. Start getting dinner ready etc.

I usually read to them in the evening. I use to read a lot through out the day about three years ago but back then my kids ages were baby, 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6 so I had the time. Now that they are older and need to 'do' school it has taken a lot of my reading time away. I do try to read 2 picture books and 1 chapter of a chapter book a day. Some days I'll get more reading in and other days I will not.

If you count our science time as reading than that would add to our reading time.

In the evening I will do some school with Ethan.

Well that's a day at Homeschooling6 Academy  Joshua named our school because he was tired of people asking where he went to school. So now he can say "Homeschoolin6 Academy" Yikes! Wonder what people will think. Hopefully they won't ask him anymore questions after that. He doesn't like it because it's so different than what other kids answer. It usually bothers in Sept. when they are all promoted in Sunday School & AWANA. That's the first question the teachers seem to ask the kiddos in their class. sigh.

Blessings,
Linda<><