on THE Solid Rock - Plans for this school year

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Plans for this school year

1:28, Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Here is my entry to the back to (home)school contest. Rachel

What type of homeschooler are you?How do you homeschool? (Do you plan??)

We are kind of eclectic I would say. I do plan but that does not mean that I follow it to a "T", it is there as more of a guideline than a rigid taskmaster.

Are you using a specific curriculum or a conglomeration or none?

Science: Bob Jones Science 2

History: Bob Jones Heritage Studies 1

English: Learn Every Day Grammar Skills Ages 6 to 8 and Explode the Code (& Beyond the Code)

Handwriting: Getty Dubay

Math: Complete Book of Time & Money and Math U See Alpha (DD) and Math U See Beta (DS - moving on to Gamma soon)

We are also using the Complete book of Maps and Geography right now. And we receive the Highlights Which Way USA state books and work on those as well.

For Bible, I am still trying to decide if we will do A names of God Bible study by Kay Arthur for kids or one of her other ones. I am also thinking of getting the book Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends to study this year.

Foreign Language: The kids have Muzzy videos for Spanish and they really like them. We use Signing Time DVD's for ASL, we love these (my cousin married a deaf man and they both love these videos as well).

Art: Draw Write Now (they draw a picture and only have to write one sentence.

Are you making it up yourself?

No way ;)

Do you have a plan or just use ideas as you go?

As I mentioned above, I use plans as a guideline. Even if the curriculum we use says to do something and I don't feel that it fits then I change the activity to fit us or skip it all together.

Do you homeschool in desks, at the table or anywhere it works??

Kitchen table, living room floor, DS's desk in his room, DD's Hello Kitty table in her room, back porch, basement futon, wherever feels right or works for that moment.

Tell me what you are excited about that you will be doing!

I think I am most excited about using Bob Jones this year. And if we buy the Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends book too - I think we will all like that one :)

Are you going to teach each child in their own grade level or do you multi-grade teach?

Our kids are 14 months apart so for most subjects I keep multi-grade teach.

Here is my "planned schedule". So far we are not following much of it but the kids are loving that I actually wrote it out on a poster sheet and put it up in the "school corner" of our kitchen. We do parts of it every day.

	Mom	DS	DD
7:00	Up/Bible/Prayer	Sleep	Up/Bible/Prayer
7:30	Workout	Sleep	Shower/Dress
8:00	Shower/Dress	Up/Bible/Prayer	Cat Care
8:30	Fix Breakfast	Shower/Dress	Fix Breakfast
9:00	Eat Breakfast	Eat Breakfast	Eat Breakfast
9:30	Start Laundry	Breakfast Dishes	Clean Table/Sweep
10:00	Zone Clean	Zone Clean	Zone Clean
10:30	School	School	School
11:00	School	School	School
11:30	School	School	School
12:00	Fix Lunch	Fix Lunch	Free Time
12:30	Eat Lunch	Eat Lunch	Eat Lunch
1:00	Clothes in dryer	Clean Table/Sweep	Lunch Dishes
1:30	School	School	School
2:00	School	School	School
2:30	School	School	School
3:00	School	School	School
3:30	School	School	School
4:00	Chore Pack	Chore Pack	Chore Pack
4:30	Chore Pack	Chore Pack	Chore Pack
5:00	Free Time	Free time	Free time
5:30	Catch up on stuff	Dog Poop/Free time	Litter Box/Free time
6:00	Fix Dinner	Set Table	Set Table
6:30	Eat Dinner	Eat Dinner	Eat Dinner
7:00	Dishes/Table/Sweep	Daddy Time	Daddy Time
7:30	Free Time	Free Time	Free Time
8:00	Free Time	Pick up Rm./Odyssey	Pick up Rm./Odyssey
8:30	Read to kids	Brush Dog	Cat Care
9:00	Time with kids	Bed	Bed
9:30	Bed	Sleep	Sleep
10:00	Sleep	Sleep	Sleep

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I really like how you have your schedule set up!
Love & Blessings,
(: Amanda :)

Posted by amandasangels on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 6:02

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