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When I started homeschooling something that inspired me often and still does was reading what a day in the life of other homeschooers was like. Nancy Lande's A Patchwork of Days was a God send. I was able to learn through reading these entries just how I wanted to create my own homeschool. Of course like all things it changes often. So when Susan at HomeGrownKids asked to write what my homeschool day is like here http://kerugma.net/blog/ I thought I might finally have enough experience to write a day. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< So let me see. The school year for us has started way back in January on the 15th as in February we has our annual homeschooling camp at Lorne Vic and we also had a 4 day trip to QLD. We stayed at Burleigh Heads. It was nice but this week has been slow to get back into the routine. Today.... 5.50 Daddy gets up and goes to do his morning routine. 7.00am He comes in and kisses me goodbye. I roll over and think about my day. 7.30 am-Joshua comes in and asks if he can turn on the computer. 9.00am- Samuel came in and asked for his turn on the computer. I get up and have a shower. The children have made their beds and are dressed. We decide to make breakfast. I make some semolina as it is cold this morning. The children get bowls of cereal. Joshua makes some toast.I sit down with them as they eat and read from Leading Little Ones to God. We say a prayer for our school day. 9.50am -Dh calls to say have a good day. 10.00am - the children opt to start their schoolwork at 10.30 instead of starting right away. I call a friend and cancel coming to the bible study at her house this afternoon as I am truely exhausted from the week. I need to go out this evening to a Gooc party and thought with how tired I am it is either one or the other. I put on a load of washing and check emails. 10.35am- I call the children to their Math. Samuel and Sierra work rapidly to complete theirs with me being called away for the computer a few times to answer questions. I am really trying to get them to work independantly as Joshua had me all the time with him and does not like to work on his own. I often need to sit with him to complete work even though he is quite capable to do it himself. Samuel starts on the kitchen bench them moves to sit neat me at the computer. Joshua is in the loungeroom sitting at the coffee table. Sierra starts in the playroom and then moves to the computer room floor behind me. Samuel and Sierra finish and Joshua is still going. They get a few minute break as I clean up from breakfast. 11.30-I then start their LLATL. I ask them to start writing some sentences as I look through a book on Grammar. 12.00-They finish this as Joshua finishes his Math Saxon 5/4. I give Joshua a few minutes break and then call him over to look at his Math and then start his LLATL. He has to write a paragraph and we have a discussion on choosing to write as little as possible and doing as the lesson asks. He chooses to write the minimum on the paragraph :(. I then dictate the whole literature passage to him instead of part as I had planned. 1.30pm -Time for lunch. I make sandwiches for myself and Sierra. Maccaroni and Cheese for Samuel and a meat Pie for Joshua. I read aloud from Julie of the Wolves. Only a few pages today as the kids lose interest. I like reading it and remember it being read aloud to me at school. 2.30pm- I give them another break and check emails. They decide on their own to get out drawing paper and drawing books and start drawing. Before they get too far into it I ask them to get the map work out for STOW 3 and the coloring pages and get them to start that as I sweep the floor around them. When I am done I read the mapwork instructions. 3.15pm-they have free time the rest of the afternoon. They are doing watercolour painting. And now drawing on the chalkboard practicing their names in cursive. Tonight -when daddy comes home they will practise their speeches for speech club next week. They are more like book reports really for their ages. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
I have found this year to achieve my goals I am needing to be home more. I was out three afternoons a week but feel that two is enough this year. I have left my job as a Coles check out chick and that is a blessing. How much time and energy did that take. Getting ready to go on holiday was so stress free as I had all the time in the world. No nights away from home. I am still the co-ordinator of our group but that just means being at a meeting once a month and setting up a few annual events. The group has gotten pretty big and we are finding it easier to meet on an individual family basis than as a huge group. We had our 5th homeschooling camp and it was great to see how much the children had grown since our 1st one. This is our Mums' with only a few not there, we have 80 children between us!!!
Wow it has been a while since I wrote and I am glad I did.
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