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RE: A Day in the Life of Your School - 10/25/2008 10:55:04 AM
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shadowspring
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Friday October 24
My single mom neighbor has a business trip, so I have agreed to help her kids get off to school in the morning. I woke up at 6:30 and had my coffee and devotions in a rush.
I woke my son up at 7:00. E. and G. arrived at 7:15. We put our pre-recorded show Enjoying Everyday Life on while the kids all had breakfast. I had a breakfast shake while chatting with the kids, making sure the youngest brushed her hair, teeth, etc. and watching my show.
8:30 G. actually wants to start his handwriting! It's a miracle! I think he wants to show off for his little sister, as he is home schooling with our family this year (legal in our state) and she has to go to public school. 
8:45 My son and G. walk E. to the bus stop. They return at 9:00.
9:00- 11:15 I check G.s handwriting and make him do three words over. I give him his spelling test- he misses two out of twenty. Not bad. He copies the missed words over.
My son at 14 is on his own with the honor system. He does Daily Spark vocabulary, SAT Vocabulary Cartoons, and Easy Grammar Plus. He does a page in his Spanish III workbook. Then he reads two chapters in his current assignment, Peace Like a River. He asks me to copy his math test.
G. gets his English assignment. I change the direction on his BJU 6th grade English to more closely correspond to Easy Grammar, which I think is well, easier and makes the parts of speech clearer to students. While he is working on the Independent Study page, I discover my son checking his e-mail on the computer. 
My son claims he is waiting for his test, which I point out has been sitting in the printer output shelf (is there a name for that?) since he asked for it at the beginning of the day. 
My son starts on his math. I go over English with G. and then give him his math test and grade it. G. does a science lab pretty much unaided. G, reads a chapter in Mr. Revere and I by Ben Larson. He writes his summary paragraph. Now it's 11:15, time to walk the dog.
11:15- 12:30-
My son takes G. to walk his dog every morning around 11:30, but Sol is not done with his test yet. I tell G. to read until S. is done. He goes to ask Sol how much he has left on the test. Unknown to me until later, S. walks away from the last three problems of his test to walk the dog.
I get on the computer to check my e-mail and post on Crosswalk!
When the boys get back from the two mile walk, I have to get off the computer. Since I have Bible study tonight I have to go to the store. I want the boys to go with me, but here is when I discover that S. has not finished his test! 
12:30-1:30- G. and I go to the bookstore. I buy a book on Java programming for Sol with a coupon, and I get G. a book on chess with my teacher's discount. We go to the grocery store to get what I need for Bible study and some frozen pizza.
1:30-2:30 When we get home, Sol is done with his test and working on Anatomy. Yay! I don't have to smack him! I would not have been happy if he was back on the computer.
While the veggie and pepperoni pizzas are in the oven, we have history. We each read aloud one section (2-3 pages) in George Washington's World, then I question the kids on what we have read.
I am tired as I am recovering from bronchitis and I need a nap. I grade Sol's math while we all eat, and am not happy that he only made an 80 when I know if he focused he could have made a 100. Grrr. The consequences is that he has to listen to me talk about the importance of focusing on tests, that there are no do-overs on the SAT or in college or in life itself, especially if he really is planning on becoming a surgeon. Long lecture about how meticulous surgeons must be over long hours in the operating room, but done in an informative, truly supportive voice. He takes it well enough.
After lunch the rest of our usual routine goes out the window. G. is done with his assigned school, as is Sol. Normally now they have six hoops to jump through before they can play vidoe games, but I need to nap. So I allow them to play video games while I sleep, but I also inform them that when I get up we will all clean house for Bible study. G. groans "You mean I did all that reading for nothing?" (Reading a chapter and writing a summary is one of the six hoops you must jump through before video games.) I give him the evil eye and he apologizes and grabs my son to go upstairs and play video games.
2:30-3:30- I sleep for an hour instead of thirty minutes! Yikes!
3:30-3:45- The boys are called downstairs and do some vacuuming before they have to pick up E. at the bus stop. Then my son goes to their house to babysit until their mom gets home from her business trip.
I am left alone with a very messy house. Sol did not get his vocabulary/spelling test done, but he did everything else. I probably won't grade any of it till Monday.
Real homeschooling life. What's yours like? 
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"Blessed is the man...whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by rivers of water..." from Psalm 1
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RE: A Day in the Life of Your School - 10/25/2008 12:26:18 PM
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RJR_fan
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The girls and wife relax for a few hours in the morning. At 10:00, Mom reads to them for a while from a historical novel, then puts them to work on math and reading assignments. Then, in the evening, I get my turn. 3-5 evenings per week, I work with them on their Turkish assignments, then read to them for a while. We've just finished David Copperfield (after Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities), and are wading through Walter Scott's Rob Roy and Stanislas Lem's Cyberiad.
On Friday, they spend the morning at a home-school enrichment academy sponsored by our church.
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RE: A Day in the Life of Your School - 10/27/2008 4:23:41 PM
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Homegrownkids
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Right now (until the time changes), I don't even get out of bed until 8 or so. I usually go on the computer to check emails and other things. Then, I shower and get myself ready for the day. Then, I get the kids up (if they aren't already). Usually some are already up and they have eaten their breakfast and done chores... but at 9am we read a chapter out of Proverbs and 2 chapters out of Psalms, we discuss as we read and then we pray. Then, we finish our chores. The 11,12, and 13 yr old do their independant work while I do chores or get the baby and the 6 yr old ready for the day. I also get supper prepared. Me, or one of the kids, will do school with 6 yr dd. Then we do lunch and another quick clean up of the house. Our afternoons look like this right now
Mondays~ History and Spanish
Tues~ History and Bell playing
Wed ~ History and Spanish
Thurs~ Civics and Play Practice and Character Building (right now reading about Brothers and Sisters becoming best friends)
Friday ~ History and Spanish
For their independant work:
Easy Grammar, Painless Grammar
Bob Jones Reading
Just Write/Writing Strands
A Beka Health/or Science
Teaching Text books Math gr. 5,7 and 8
vocabulary from the roots up
We all take turns helping 6 yr dd with Sing Spell Read and Write, Bob Jones Math and CLP History and Science.
I also sit down a couple days out of the week to look over their work.
We are usually done with school by 1:30- 2pm if not earlier.
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RE: A Day in the Life of Your School - 10/27/2008 5:19:35 PM
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cynthia
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We start school at 8:45.
We meet together in the living room for prayer and memory work. We work on review of previous scripture, our current scripture, then we work on a poem and review of previous poems.
The eldest goes on to independent work.
The two nine year olds and the eleven year old work together for 1/2 an hour on Bible study, 1/2 an hour on history (Mystery of History 1), 1/2 an hour on Latin.
Break for snack from 10:30-11:00
Eleven year old goes to indepedent work.
Nine year olds work on math and Learning Language Arts Through Literature.
About 12:00 we eat lunch.
After lunch, I am still working on the routine, but the idea is to go over work with the eleven and fourteen year olds and finish school sometime between 3:00 and 4:00.
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My husband and I have a motto:
We are the leader. We are one.
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RE: A Day in the Life of Your School - 10/27/2008 5:31:50 PM
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ShekinahJoy
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It was great to read the replies....good question!
We have a young one still (4 1/2) so we spend lots of time playing. Try to do somewhat of a routine.
Get up and play!
Make bed and go over the calendar, days of the week and the weather.
Breakfast and maybe some workbook time. He loves to do mazes or some of the preschool workbooks that I have on the table.
Mom does Bible reading and devotions while he plays.
Go outside and play tennis, kick soccer ball, go to playground (find other little ones..)explore. Today we sat on the see-saw and he just wanted to talk about God and how he can be here and there and everywhere at the same time! We watched the lizards, ants and squirrels. Fun!
Home for lunch and more play time...some of this is self-directed and some of it is me playing with him and talking. We also like to read during the afternoon.
Late afternoon may involve another walk outside and collecting items to use in a craft.
Dinner and bath.
We go over his Bible memory verses in the evening. My husband also do a little Bible quiz with him.
Snack before bedtime.
Reading and going over his world map.
Praying and going over his day with him.
Nite nite.....
That's about it for us now.....and we love it! I wouldn't trade having him learning at home for anything!!
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RE: A Day in the Life of Your School - 11/9/2008 10:23:24 PM
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Brooke313
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It is amazing how different we all are and yet how much the same. My dh's are in 9th and 10th grade. This is our return year as we homeschooled earlier and they went to school for about 5 years.
I get up first and do my devotions, and have some quiet time. They join me at 7 and we watch The Waltons while we eat and get ready for our day. We start school at 9:00 except on Fridays which is sleep in and pj day. We start with our Bible lessons and then move to grammar and spelling. While one does math, I work with the other on whatever they need to work on and then we switch after an hour. this takes us until lunch time and then they are on their own in the afternoon to work on projects and assignments for classes that they take care of on their own. These include, history, science, sign language, literature, health and reading.
We have ensemble practice on Tues, choir on Wed. and one has a violin lesson on Friday. THey will both be starting dance hopefully in about a week. One day a week they go to the local elementary school to volunteer and my 9th grader volunteers at the library once or twice a week. Then they have a cleaning job on Sat. So as you can see we are very busy and have a full blessed life.
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