May. 18, 2009 - Peter's school day
Peter starts his day with his quiet Bible time. Then he gets up, and starts his chores.
After chores is breakfast, then he gets started on his math while I do reading with Andrew.
When he is finished, I correct his math and he works on his Lifepac Language Arts. I correct any errors and give ut back for him to fix.
Then he usually has some free time before lunch.
After lunch things are extremely varied. Some days we get tons done, other days we dont get anything else done!
We usually do spelling about 3 times a week. Lifepac has spelling included, but Peter has improved by leaps and bounds since starting Sequential Spelling so we supplement with that.(Today we skipped spelling)
We did Art Appreciation instead.
Lately we've been really involved in Geography. We tend to spend a few weeks really into science, or history or geography, then take a break and do the next one for a few weeks, as opposed to doing them all every day. As long as we finish them in the school year (and we seem to have been doing 2 years of each every year, so we definitely do) I dont care when or how it gets done.
We LOVE A Child's Geography of the Holy Land. On top of the book, both boys make a flag for each county for their notebooks, and Peter also does a page on traditional foods, and a map as well as his daily notes. We also scour the library for books on which ever county we are studying to go more in depth. Last week we finished Egypt so we made an Egyptain recipe for date balls as well. When we studied Turkey, we made Turkish delight, etc. We're currently learing about Iraq, and will take a break from the book to go in depth into the Iraq wars, because Peter is really interested in that.
For science we are currently working on Apologia Astronomy.
We do daily notes for his notebook, and also supplemet with extra books from the library. We go outside and try to see what we are studying if possible, and I try and take pictures for him to add to his notebook. That was much easier when we did birds and insects, you dont just see a comet in your tyard every day! ;) We did get some good ones of the stages of the moon, and we got a decent one of Venus (the speck on the bottom right)
(but we also skipped Science today)
We are currently waiting to finish Geography before starting a new History unit on the New Testament/Greeks/Romans. Peter is dying to dig into it, but the organizer in me wants one subject neatly finished before starting another!
Today we didn't get much done because as we were finishing Geography the doorbell rand, and the UPS man brought Peter's much awaited Latin book and CD. He decided he wanted to learn latin, and I didn't really take him seriously, but the poor boy tried to dig into adult latin books at the library (they only had book 2, so it was way too hard to jump into ) and had taken up copying the latin words from the dictionary and trying to memorize the translations! So Daddy and I decided to go ahead and order Prima Latina and the accompanying CD. So we spent the afternoon memorizing Latin instead, which as much as I didnt think was important at first, it is actually fun! And I see that it will help not only with english grammar but learning Spanish later as well!
So that kind of gives you a rough idea of our day. It is very loosely structures, and I LOVE that about homeschooling. We can follow the children's interests, and work schooling around life.
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