I don't think I've posted in awhile what our homeschool schedule looks like.  I tweaked it just a little bit and I think it is running really smoothly. 

We start the day with our table work.  Emme does 2-4 pages of math, depending on the length and difficulty.  She is doing addition and subtraction through 19.  It is a great deal of repetition, but I can't seem to come up with any other way to teach it to her.  We do use manipulatives as well.   We are also practicing adding and subtracting money.

For handwriting, since she inherited the really bad printing gene that all of my children received, we are doing two pages a day of "Power Printing", which is a workbook that is by the author of "Handwriting without Tears".   It has helped her a lot with the correct formation of letters and numbers and I can tell that her handwriting is improving.

We are doing tons and tons of reading.  Emme reads a few easy readers to me, and then we have a reading lesson, a few pages of phonics in "Explode the Code", and then more reading work in her Reader Rabbit book, which she loves.

So far we're not sounding very "Charlotte Mason-esque" are we?  LOL  I guess I should say we are eclectic, because the desk work is very mandatory and it's WORKING for her, so it stays!

For Religion we have discussions from the Bible, I have a Jesus story book that I read out of to her, and she does coloring pages in her Old Testament coloring book.  We also do crafts for each holiday, pray for people, and go to "Girls on a Mission" through our church.  They do crafts and pray for the person who they are giving the craft to for an entire month.

For Nature we are reading from the Christian Liberty Nature Reader, keeping a bird feeder log, weather log, going on weekly nature walks, growing an herb garden, doing experiments, learning about birds from many different books, including the Burgess Book of Birds;  we will be planting a butterfly garden, and she will have her own flower garden with her sister.  We also watch appropriate shows on Animal Planet.  Last night we watched how 10 different animals and insects make their houses.  She really seems to love learning about animals.

For Science we are learning about forests right now and making a lap book.  She's really enjoying this.

In History we are still learning about Colonial Times.  After studying Native Americans for awhile, we took some time off.  We've been studying Colonial Times for about a month now.  We are reading "Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims",  "If You Lived in Colonial Times", "Stories of Early America" and keeping a time line and notebook.  

We're following Ambleside for the Art and Composer studies, poem printouts, and free reading book lists. 

Generally we do table work and some of the reading at the school table.  We'll take a break for lunch or playing outside or clean up and then later in the afternoon we will go to my room, snuggle up on the bed and finish reading stories to each other.  This seems to work the best for both of us.

Well, now that I've updated you on what we are doing -- I'd love to hear what your very favorite homeschooling books and links are!

Sherry