Our day starts at 10 am and ends at 2 pm.
After 2 pm, the girls still have independent assignments to complete at their leisure, while I use the time to check their work, and get organized for the next day's tasks. A few days a week, in the evening, we have lessons outside of the home (German, piano, dance, cartooning, tennis, etc.)
We have four subjects per day, as well as a morning meeting. At morning meeting we take turns reading interesting articles from National Geographic, Ranger Rick, and so on; recite daily poetry from our poetry index card file; play art cards (our handmade game of modified Gin Rummy that uses laminated cards with artwork on them) to encourage art recognition; Morning meeting is also a time to review the kids' independent work from the day prior. After morning meeting, we do math. Math has to be a morning endeavor, or else the kids don't give it their all. After morning meeting and math, we have three subjects (except on Mondays, because the science experiments take a lot of time and energy).
MONDAY:
1. Morning Meeting: Go over weekly packets; Novel
2. Math Discussion
3. Science Reading
4. Science Experiment
MONDAY HOMEWORK:
1. Research report topic and draft an outline
2. Watch "YouTube" Educational videos
3. Answer Journal question
TUESDAY:
1. Morning Meeting: Geography Flash Cards, Family Reading
2. Math Lesson Completed
3. Social Studies (reading & discussing current events)
4. German
5. Language Arts
TUESDAY HOMEWORK:
1. Write rough draft of essay
2. Rosetta Stone German - 30 minutes
WEDNESDAY:
1. Morning Meeting: Game Day (Art Cards, Taboo, etc.)
2. Math Discussion
3. Poetry Appreciation
4.Geography
5. Latin
WEDNESDAY HOMEWORK:
1. Study Latin & complete any questions from book
2. Add printed pictures to our countries folder
3. Study 10 vocabulary words and write "letter" to and from
characters in your reading using the words.
THURSDAY:
1. Morning Meeting: History Flash Cards, Family Reading
2. Math Lesson Completed
3. History Timeline
4. Shakespeare
5. Nature Study
THURSDAY HOMEWORK:
1. Finish report on the computer and save to your file
2. Study German and finish any exercises in book
FRIDAY:
1. Morning Meeting: Novel,
Quiz (German, Latin, Vocab and L.A.)
2. Math Quiz
3. Art Study
4. Mythology
5. Crafts
NO HOMEWORK
We use the Saxon Math Homeschooling curriculum. We alternate between going over a new lesson the first day, then actually completing the lesson the next day. In this way, we complete five full lessons every two weeks, ten per month, and 80-90 lessons in all throughout the course of a year.
The rest of our curriculum materials and texts I gather from the library, the internet, and from our extensive home library. It's fun having the flexibility to take advantage of many resources - our schooling never gets stale or locked into one perspective.
In addition:
- Akychame takes piano lessons every Wednesday afternoon.
- Akychame takes tennis lessons every Thursday afternoon.
- Lvov takes horseback lessons every Friday.
