Saturday, April 8, 2006 -
A Day in the Life... sorta....

... Posted in Homeschooling

I'm so wanting to win something, but I AM NOT posting pictures of my ugly little kitchen where we "do school"... but this is the table I have:

NOTE: it's just the table. My chairs are mismatched, and I don't have the china cabinet. And my kitchen is definitely not that nice. It seats 6 comfortably, 8 squished, and with the 24" leaf, a few more than that. But I digress.

School is mostly done at the table. In the ugly kitchen. I may get brave enough to someday post a picture of it, but not likely. We start at 10:30 most days, although I have fantasies about starting at 9...lol... anyway. We start out with Bible. We read a devotion for the Keys for Kids devotional, then a Psalm (we're workiong our way through them. I think we're up to Psalm 33. Maybe.). We divvy up the verses so the 3 oldest kids and I have an equal amount, if we can. They aren't looking forward to the day we hit 119. After that, we pray, whoever wants to, usually me and my son.

Then it's Math for the older 3, they all do Saxon, and I kind of round-robin it. After Math is English, and they all work on whatever I have on the schedule for them (gr4: Pathway reader, WordlyWise 3000, copywork; gr6: Pathway reader, WW3000, EasyGrammar 5/6; gr8: WW3000-- I gave up on Writing Strands and Editor in Chief. Oh, gr1: Explode the Code, CLP readers, Bob Jones math). That brings us to lunch, and after about an hour lunch break they finish up English, do Science (Abeka for gr4 and 6; Apologia General Science for gr8), and History/Geography. For those this year we've done map books from Apple Press, an Egypt study I created, and now back to Canadian history, with the War of 1812. I hope to cover up to Confederation (1867) before the year is out. We rarely do art, and I gave up on French. We tried to use PowerGlide Adventures, but it was sooo annoying. Probably partly because we're in a French area, and it sounded hardly like what we hear.

Now, this sounds pretty good, but the post would be twice as long if I included the yelling, fighting, and begging. Some days we're done at lunch, some we're done at 4, some days we give up completely. But I still wouldn't send them to public school. In the end, when all is said and done, it's worth it.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by JenIG

that is a gorgeous table!

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Saturday, April 29, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Happyhome

Thanks for the glimpse into your life. I love Todd Wilson's comics and my dh enjoys his Family man stuff weekly.

BTW, thanks for the offer of the cat. Do you think you could ship it UPS? lol

Blessings,

Angela

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