Posted in Inside our Homeschool Room

I have re-evaluated our homeschool days due to some the aroma that is filling the air in our school room from all of us. I am also a little tired of the way we are doing things. We pretty much just sit in our little room at the same desk for 3 straight hours... boring. It seemed like a good idea at first but now that we have experienced its suffocation of enjoyable learning we have changed some things. I knew that I wanted to change some things up but didn't really know what or how, I racked my brain the other night while laying in the dark of night as I waited to drift off to sleep. I remembered one of the articles I had read in the NEW amazingly encouraging Old Schoolhouse Magazine and it got my wheels turning. By the next morning I had it figured out and on paper ready to try out. Success! Much more refreshing:

7-8:30 Breakfast, dressed, teeth, straightening

8:30-9:15 Personal Quiet times

Chores until 10:00

Quiet times will be done before chores now as a way to enforce putting the Lord first each morning, but we will eat and get dressed first. As they get older they can begin to have there own quiet times before breakfast if they so desire.

10:00-12:00 School:

1. Table Time: we will start our school day at the kitchen table with bible, langauge lessons, phonics, memory, copywork and poetry reading

2. Couch Time: we then will escape into our current read aloud on the couch with a good snack.

3.Desk Time: here is where we will do math and spelling.

1:00-2:00

4. Couch/Closet Time: independent reading and enjoyment reading with classical music in the background (my personal favorite)

4. Outside Time: time to venture outside with our history and science books to enjoy God's creation while learning about Egypt and the Stars

This has been so nice! Moving to different areas to do different subjects has taken the monotony out of our school day that was begining to grow.