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Friday, April 30, 2010

Snapshot, a day of homeschooling

Our homeschool day today, Friday looked like this...

8:00 Teddy arrives, I am getting ready for the day, getting the littles breakfast, Meg takes the dog for a walk.

8:30 leave to take Meg to horse riding lesson, the littles have instructions to finish the 30 min. video they are watching and then to do something else, they play with playmobil

I return and school begins with the 4 youngest.

Character Study with the 3 littles, then they move on to Math-today they are doing Math skills work for their grades using Flashkids workbooks, I am giving them a Math-U-See holiday today. Then we do cursive handwriting, Language Arts workbook -using adjectives to make sentences more interesting, and phonics (explode the code).

Josie does Math-U-See on her own, today she has a test. Then she does a page in her Language Arts workbook- using prepositional phrases to make writing more interesting, and then she works with Literature using Mosdos Press. I work with her a bit on the assignment, explain terms a bit.

I leave to pick up Meg at her riding lesson, the littles do a bit of quiet reading and then go back to playmobil...Josie tackles her History reading assignments from her Sonlight core 6 program.

I get back with Meg, she tackles her Math-U-See work, her grammar work and then her independent History reading. I set the 3 littles down again with drawings they did yesterday from our history reading, and have them write a paragraph beneath the drawing describing what the picture is about-from the read aloud History book.

I make lunch, set up the table in the family room so the 4 youngest can eat lunch and watch an Eyewitnnes DVD on Butterflies and Moths that I got at the library. This will be the introduction for Science work we will be doing on Monday.

We are done for the day at lunch. The 2 older girls will still have some history reading and comprehension questions/vocabulary later in the day, Josie still has to do some spelling, but the 3 littles are done.

After lunch, I have promised to take the kids to Barnes & Nobles for hot chocolate and reading fun.

this is a snapshot of our day today, a bit of a light day, but not totally unusual.

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Labels: homeschool, snapshot, sonlight

posted at 12:46 PM
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5 Comments:

At 7:25 PM, Elaine said...: Sounds like a great day!
At 3:37 AM, Nancy Hniedziejko (Nancy Ehrlich) said...: Wow! Your as busy as a classroom teacher, but you do NOT get any prep periods! I imagine you prep when others are sleeping:) Your blog and photos are beautiful. I've been a classroom teacher for more years than I can count, and I'm so intrigued by your teaching. Nancy
At 10:12 AM, Rieshy said...: Sounds like a nice day. I miss being done by lunch. This year our days keep stretching longer and longer.

I've already started mulling things over for next year.
At 11:15 AM, Shannon K. said...: I would actually like to find the butterfly video. My daughter loves them, and has been asking about moths.
At 10:34 PM, Hen Jen said...: Nancy,

my prep period is usually Sunday, and sometimes the night before we are doing something. I do wish I had an official prep period everyday.

I think that is the hardest part about homeschooling, that my role as keeper of the home and mom vie with my teacher role as to what needs to be done. After school is done would be a nice time to correct papers and prep for the next day, but at that moment, messes need to be cleaned, dinner started, laundry, kids need to be shuttled to activities...

I am impressed with classroom teachers, I could never do it. Teaching at co-ops, 1 day a week has always stressed me out physically and mentally, I usually come home fried and with a headache. Hats off to you teachers who do it every day, and with more students!

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