Our School Day Schedule

Captain's log.

Stardate blah blah blah point something-or-other

We're 4 days into our homeschool journey and thus far everything's working pretty much like I expected. I'm REALLY enjoying sleeping in till 8, having a leisurely breakfast with the kids while I check emails and Facebook (it's the new morning paper you know), working on laundry, dishes, getting dinner in the crock pot, having a bit of time to read or write, making sure all our supplies are gathered in one place, having lunch and THEN launching into our schoolwork for the day. It only take us about 3 hours right now to get through our scholastic check list for the day. Here's what the line up looks like;

They each have a drawer with the needed supplies for the day.

After singing the National Anthem and saying a prayer together, they fill out their calendar and weather pages for the day.

This was our first day of school "time capsule". We'll repeat it next year to see how they changed.

Bre starts with Math (www.khanacademy.com & Life of Fred) while she listens to Mozart on itunes radio to block out distractions.

Wes and I work on the letter of the day with phonics, tracing, a project or two and his ABC journal.

When Bre is done with math, she reads out loud to me and then does her comprehension questions and copy work (The Tale of Jolly Robin).

While I'm listening to Bre read Wes does his ABC Animal Tracks power point I made for him (vidoes, sounds, pictures and skeletal structures). Bre loves to do this when all her other work is done as well.

Once they're done with their core subjects then we do an extra subject; 

Monday is bible (www.jellytelly.com)

Tuesday is Art (this month we're studying Henri Matisse)

Wednesday is Piano (John Thompson) and 

Thursday is Science (We're exploring our 5 senses right now)

Bre also practices piano every day for a short bit (5-10 minutes) once everything else has been completed.

They both look forward to art, science and animal tracks the most.

To help curb whining and complaining, they each start the day with some fruit jellies from Trader Joes in a small mason jar (I cut them in 1/4ths), the same amount as they have subjects for the day, and if after 1 warning a bad attitude is not corrected they loose a gummy. When we're all done for the day they get to eat whatever's left in their jar. This has worked really really well for them thus far. I usually only have to issue a warning because no one want to loose any of those yummy jellies.