Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Jane (PlainJane) and I am the blessed and happy wife to Jeff and doubly blessed mama of two perfectly wonderful daughters. Please join me as I share our Lifestyle of Learning through Christian homeschooling and homesteading on our little hobby farm with our prairie girls.
Amber (Bookworm) is our dd15/10th grader.
Our perfectionist and over-achiever. She loves reading, playing violin, all things vintage, riding her Paint horse, and being a farm girl.
Anna (Ladybug)
is our dd12/7th grader.
Our "girls just want to have fun" girl. She loves to play and has a great sense of humor, but also enjoys cooking, music, and riding her QH pony.
I have been working on a schedule for this coming school year & I think I have it just about done. It is much like last year, however, I was hoping to shorten our school day up some, but just don't know where to trim. The times are just ball-park figures and some days we won't be doing everything listed - for instance, the illustrative outline, etc. section may only be a couple of times a week. I considered doing American History only 3 times a week and US Geography twice a week, but we have so much good stuff I hate to cut there and would really like to finish it before the girls turn 20.
Approx. Time
2009/2010 School Schedule
M - F Activities
4:40 a.m.
Mom & Dad rise & shine; mom makes dad’s lunch
5:00 a.m. - 6:45 a.m.
Mom kisses daddy good-bye; gets ready for the day; makes bed; feeds indoor pets; has personal devotions; blogs a little; makes sure girls are awake by 6:45
6:45 a.m. - 7:15 a.m.
Girls have personal devotions and get dressed for the day
7:15 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
Barn Chores: Feed & turn horses out; tend to chickens.
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
Breakfast; clean-up; and finish getting ready for the day
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
House Blessing: All 3 of us girls clean the house;
free time
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
School starts: Opening Time; Prayer; Pledges (M); Sword Drill (T- TH); Hymn Sing (M-TH); Missions Study;
Chapel Time (TH); Christian Service or Girls Bible Study (F)
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Bible Memorization & Scribe Scripture with Spencerian Penmanship
9:45 a.m.- 10:15 a.m.
Illustrative Outline or Lapbook Today’s Scripture Reading; Setting (Map); Timeline; Bible Words Vocabulary Study
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Applicable Bedell Curriculum Lesson
10:45 a.m. - 10:55 p.m.
Vocabulary (English Roots; High School Vocab.; Vocab. Cartoons; Idioms)
10:55 a.m. - 11:15 p.m.
Barn Chores
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Lunch & Free Time
12:15 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.
Reading + Anna 3 pages of Health
12:35 p.m.- 1:15 p.m.
Math: Anna - Teaching Textbooks 7; Amber - Assigned
1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
American History - The American Revolution & beyond/Lapbooking
1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Science - Geology/Lapbook
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
US Geography
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Home Economics (1-2 pgs. a day)
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Music Appreciation (M), Art (T), Typing (W-TH)
Equestrian; Free time; own interests
Evening
Family Bible Reading; Balancing the Sword; & Prayer
Wow, that's a lot of stuff to get done. We usually don't go much past 2:00, but we'll see what happens this year. We are starting a new history program, Mystery of History. I'll look at my schedule in August. I try to take two complete months off of looking at school stuff during the summer. :) lol
JoAnn
Do you guys ever sleep? Although I began looking at that time of wake up and thought... oh my goodness now that hubby is back and we are further out from where he has to report for work on post getting up at that time to see him off is at that time... YIKES... can you be my alarm clock? ha ha
Jeannie 
