Posted in Homeschooling

In my effort to hold myself accountable for homeschooling, I will be posting about what we do each week on my blog.  So here is the checklist I am working from now (which my husband so nicely formatted for me into a table):

Well, apparently, I can't copy and paste the table, so I will just post the list that I made up.

Hmm, apparently I can't copy and paste that either.  Don't know why.

OK, I'll just describe how I see my day going.  At some point in the morning, we will say the Rosary.  I may make this a fixed time.  I did this before and it worked well.  No matter what anyone was doing, they stopped and came to the living room to pray.  So we'll see about that.  Also, I will read the Saint of the Day, most likely at lunch.  I am also thinking that I will read to them all while they are eating, and then eat myself.

Sometime during the morning, I will do school with Gabrielle while Mary watches the twins, and then vice versa.  I will read to the twins in either English or German and have them do some kind of morning activity like going outside, playing with the water in the kitchen, or something more planned. I also will try to read to Ryan at some point.

In the afternoon right after lunch, I will do Ryan's schoolwork with him and then have him go to his room for quiet time.  Then I will finish whatever didn't get done with the girls, and then do some sort of enrichment activity with them.  On days we go out, that won't happen obviously.  After the twins get up from their nap (which hopefully we can make them take, otherwise it's really just playing in their room), I'll make dinner. I have been doing pretty well at having dinner ready around when Roger gets home from work.  This is especially important with the twins and Ryan not really napping - this way we can eat around 6 and get them ready for bed and in bed by 7 PM.  I will try to stay on top of the kitchen and make sure it's cleaned up throughout the day, and do 2 loads of laundry at some point throughout the day (most likely in the evening).  And then I will end the day with my prayer time.

I guess somehow copy and paste is turned off - I just tried to link to my previous post about my prayer notebook and that wouldn't work either.  My tech support guy is asleep right now, so it will have to wait until tomorrow!

Our official first day of trying to get to everything will be October 6. I made a list also of the lesson planning I need to do over the weekends to make sure I am prepared for the week ahead.  Hopefully later this week I will be able to post what each child will be studying this year!  Bedtime!