Don't you love knowing how everyone else home schools? Or am I the only nosey one? Really though, I love reading blogs and talking to friends and seeing how they go about home schooling. What curriculum do you use - or do you even use one? What is your daily schedule like? What books do your kids like to read. I love getting input and new ideas.
I clearly love blog posts that share schedules and curriculums. So I thought I would share what the C. kids are going to be doing this year and how we go about our day. Plus I may have no memory left in a few years - with four kids and all- and this will serve as a reminder.
Once again we're using
My Father's World. I love this curriculum. Everything the kids do -from science to geography to language arts- is based on Scripture. This year Hannah is in 3rd grade and Samuel is 2nd. Thankfully once your youngest child hits 2nd grade, MFW has them join the curriculum of the oldest child. This year we're
"Exploring Countries & Cultures" with Hannah and Sam doing the same work for Bible, Geography and Science. Their Math and Language Arts are separate since they are at different levels. This has made our lives - and school days-
so much easier! Plus MFW has a good schedule but they encourage flexibility and skipping lessons that may be too hard for your children.
Our schedule is fairly flexible and suits us perfectly. After we wake, and remember we're not morning people, we eat breakfast then start chores. Make beds, dishes, laundry, feed our multitude of chickens, vacuum. You know, whatever needs to be done. After chores we start with Bible. This includes reading Scriptures and Hero Tales which has short stories about different people from history that really exemplified Biblical character (example: Dwight L. Moody.) Then we move to Science and finish the morning with Geography. We stop for lunch and a 30 to 45 minute break. In the afternoon one child works on Math while the other works on Language Arts -they are using the same English book so we have to flip flop. We finish with their 15 minutes of Book Basket time where they can chose any book they wish and read/look at it for 15 minutes by themselves. We're normally done by 2:30 in the afternoon but always by 3 o'clock.
Amos is so sweet and, other than being a bit of distraction for Sammy, is well behaved while we work. He normally gets out his little Bible, unprompted, and sits with us during Bible time. He loves to look at their Science and Geography books too. He'll play with blocks or Matchbox cars while we work and in the afternoons he'll watch a movie so Hannah & Sam can concentrate on spelling without him chattering and being in the way.
So far this year is going smoothly. The kids are working hard and have such a good attitude about their work. My prayer is that this will continue -especially come January when we start back up with a tiny newborn!
I love when everything is organized and easy to find. I spent the better part of an afternoon, last month, organizing the school books for this year.
Sammy is using the Complete Book of Math. Hannah is going to be scientifically/mathematically minded like her Daddy. She placed out of the first group of books and into the second group for Singapore Math.
The kids filled out their passport applications so they can visit the different countries this year. They have cute little passports that we'll add country flag stickers too as we learn about a country.
You can see how this cute little guy would be a distraction.
