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Glimpse: Wednesday School

1:33 PM, 2007-Apr-11 .. Posted in Homeschooling .. 2 comments .. Link
Today we are midway thru a Glimpse into a week of Homeschooling- if you haven't read about Monday and Tuesday just click on Homeschooling under the catagories title on my sidebar.
7:20 am- Mama up, dressed, devotions and large cup of coffee. I also stripped my bed and put sheets in the wash.
8:15 am- I realized the kids are not up and downstairs yet. I go investigate and find them all lolly-gagging around on Sassafras’s bed. I remind them of their daddy’s instructions about getting up this morning (they were up late horsing around in bed and he told them he expected them to be up on time and cheerful). They hot foot it downstairs.
8:25 am- Everyone is dressed and begins eating breakfast. I wander off to go through some paperwork in my office (youth ministry related).
8:45 am- Mr. Conductor is racing around hooting and hollering. I go to investigate and find Maiden rinsing her breakfast dishes while Sass is staring off into space- only 2 bites of her breakfast eaten. I find out she has been playing with Mr. Conductor instead of eating breakfast. I set the timer for 5 minutes and let her know that after it goes off her leftover breakfast goes into the fridge for lunch later. Amazingly enough, she has finished all but one bite in those 5 minutes. I allow her to finish and rinse her plate. During this time with Sass, Maiden has started devotions (Keys for Kids) on her own. I let her finish while I go over the day’s schedule and Sass brushes her teeth.
9 am- Sassafras starts her math (2 pages- Horizons 1 book 2). Maiden and I discuss the scripture in her devotions.
9:15 am- Sass continues with her math and Maiden starts her math work (2 pages- Horizons 3 book 2). We find we need a centimeter ruler and begin hunting. We find 6 different rulers in the house- all inches. I write “CM ruler” on our purchase list and she skips down to the next set of problems. I also set the timer for 15 minutes, then putter around with a bit of clean up (sheets go in dryer).
9:30 am- Sassafras has once again been staring off into space and finished just 4 simple subtraction problems. Maiden is halfway thru her math work. I set the timer for another 15 minutes and have Sassafras sit right next to me, as I work on my teen bible study notes, so that I can help keep her focused. After 10 minutes go by I glance at her work and see that she’s almost done with her first page but instead of subtracting the last 10 problems she has added them (all correctly too!). We erase and she starts over. I check Maiden’s math and she starts her vocabulary (Wordly Wise 3000 book 1).
10 am- Everyone’s math is finally done. It took Sassafras much longer than usual but her answers are all correct. Maiden has finished math and vocabulary. Sassafras and I start her spelling (Sonlight Core 1) while Maiden works through her handwriting (Reason for Handwriting Book D) and poem assignment (reading from The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems).
10:20 am- Spelling is finally finished with Sass- she once again had trouble concentrating. I had to get after her for lying down on the floor and such instead of spelling her words back to me. While she is putting her spelling away and getting her reading book, Maiden and I discuss the meaning of the poem she just read. Maiden self checks her vocabulary and shows me how she did. I put in a Veggie Tales video for Mr. Conductor upstairs.
10:40 am- Maiden works on her science (Sonlight- Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope) while Sassafras reads 3 pages of The Best Trick to me.
10:43 am- I receive a phone call that I must answer. (I usually let the answering machine take calls while we are schooling but this is important.) I instruct Sass to work on her handwriting (Reason for Handwriting Book A) and Maiden continues with her Science. While on the phone, all chaos breaks loose as the girls try to talk with me using hand signals while I am on the phone. I use hand signals of my own and boot them out of the office while furiously pointing at the work still to do. I continue with my phone conversation trying to wrap it up while I hear them running all over and yelling at each other.
11:05 am- We have yet another instructional time about proper manners when I am on the phone.
11:10 am- Maiden goes off to take care of Mr. Conductor while I do Science (Sonlight- Usborne First Book of the Universe) and dictation (Sonlight Language Arts Core 1) with Sassafras.
11:25 am- Sassafras’s schooling is done for now (we’ll read her read-aloud together as a family this evening) and she goes off to play with Mr. Conductor. Maiden and I do her spelling (Sequential Spelling Book 1) and dictation (Sonlight LA- Core 3+4). After correcting her dictation we compare it to the first one she did at the beginning of the school year and talk about how much she has improved.
11:40 am- Maiden goes off to read her history text (The Landmark History of the American People Vol. 2) and I field another necessary phone call.
11:50 am- I am off the phone and sending a quick email (regarding the phone call) while the kids build a blanket tent using the dining room table and approx. 5 blankets.
12:20 pm- The kids and I make quick sandwiches that they can take with them to eat in their blanket tent.
12:45 pm- Lunch is over and picked up. The tent is torn down and all schoolwork is put away. It’s free time- the kids all play together while I catch up on my blog reading.
2 pm- Girls go upstairs for quiet time and I put Mr. Conductor down for a nap. Maiden reads 2 chapters in each of her Sonlight Readers (Old Yeller and Caddie Woodlawn) and then has free read time. Sassafras looks at books while listening to her Adventures in Odyssey CDs. I go to the laundry room to pull out the clean sheets from the dryer only to find I never turned it on. So I do.
I spend the next hour researching curriculums and making notes as well as returning a couple of phone calls.
3 pm- I order most of my Sonlight Curriculum for next year. I am waiting on ordering science in the hopes that I will find it cheaper on eBay.
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Sounds so familiar

4:43 PM, 2007-Apr-11 .. Posted by rashel
Some of your day sounds so familiar to mine. My 7yo gets so distracted like your Sass and my 9yo reminds me quite a bit of your Maiden. I am also happy to learn that my children are not the only ones that forget manners when momma is on the phone :)
Rashel

Keys for kids

9:52 PM, 2007-Apr-12 .. Posted by hcorbin
We LOVE keys for kids!
I don't home school anymore (another post)
but I do try to always do Key for Kids with my children
while we wait for the bus.... that way I am sending them off with some God ways on their mind! I just love the stories and the children enjoy them.... they will bring them up and talk about the biblical principle they learned!
Indiana Country Girl

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