The Lord's Room Homeschool:Abeka & MUS-Delta

Aug. 24, 2005 - Half way through our first week of school

What a great week so far!

I'm so thankful to be starting my second year of homeschooling, it made for starting my second year so much easier! All I had to do was print out my Homeschool Journal Outline to get started (you can email me and I will send you the MS Word file if you want to see it!).

SCHEDULE
I had to make a few adjustments to our schedule but it was mostly the same...Math, Spelling, Bible & Reading Detective on Mon-Wed-Fri, and History, Science, Astronomy & Health on Tuesday-Friday. We spend 30 minutes on each subject so we start at 9 am and take a break for a snack around 10:30. Our goal is to be finished by noon (or sometimes 11:30 when we have extra curricular activites).

MONDAY
Starting up again was a major disctration, we missed our piano lesson!

It's hard when I still have to pay for it,

plus not get to make it up because we didn't give notice we were going to miss! But that's water under the bridge now. We also had a little problem with homework. I like to give one extra page per subject on Mondays and Wednesdays but my son decided to play a board game with a friend before finishing like he was told.
I had to ground him from tv for the rest of the week.

That only means he can't watch Arthur and Miayah & Miguel on PBS because those are the only two shows he watches! But he also watches his videos a lot so we're going to use the extra time to practice piano and choir. He's learning hand signals to the scale;
Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do!

TUESDAY
Lesson learned, we have a big bold schedule on the dry erase board and made sure to not miss our first choir lesson on Tuesday!

My son actually enjoyed it too! He was dreading it, but I knew he would like it! That evening we talked at the dinner table about our first two days of homeschool and after washing up we all played cards as a family until bedtime!

WEDNESDAY
Today is gymnastics

which my son loves! Then we head for the nursing home to help with bingo and be with my grandmother. She has a whole list of things she needs for us to bring; kleenex, nose drops, diapers (man those Depends are expensive!). My son has already wrapped up his lessons and is practicing the piano. It's so neat to see him use both hands playing Mary had a little lamb! Tonight I will hopefully have time to write on my novel while my daughter goes to work at Taco Bell and my son and husband practice baseball.

THURSDAY
We look forward to tomorrow where we have no afternoon extra curricular activities so we can stay home and get the house in order. Before dinner, me and my DH have our time together to do our marriage study at the coffee shop after our Chiropractor appt every Thursday, then I head off to church for women's prayer. My 16 yo daughter stays home with my son during that time and they play cards mostly or take the dog for a walk or ride their bikes when it's not too hot!

FRIDAY
Friday is the busiest day of the week! I'm sure I will hardly ever have time to blog on that day! In Sept. we'll start up the CBS (community bible study) co-op in the mornings, then the afternoons we'll either head out to the homeschool skate at the skating rink, or go bowling. The sprinkler park is always an option too since it's out that way as well. Gas is so expensive as we all know, so we're trying to utilize our travels as much as possible! Friday nights are also mine and my husband's date night. We usually go to Bennigan's to play trivia and I always have a coupon from the Valpack for our dinner!

WRAP-UP
That's our week! It's so nice to have it all journaled here and save money on paper plus not having to store it all, our bookshelves are crammed full as it is! It's time for me to check my sons papers. He already made a 100% on his first math test, but will he do so well on penmanship????

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