Aaahh…A Schedule
School is just about up and running again and schedules are getting back on track. I sure love the freedom that summer brings, but I’m always ready to get back on schedule. School schedules, chore schedules, weekly engagement schedules. Somehow, life is just calmer when it’s scheduled (around here anyway.)
Here’s a rough sketch of this year’s daily schedule and school routines.
- Breakfast
- Praise, Prayer, Bible
- Chores
- School Work
- Lunch
- Free time for big kids while mom gets little man down for nap
- While little man naps – read alouds and/or game time
- Free time for big kids to explore nature, handicrafts, projects, play, cooking….
School time is shaping up to look something like this:
Mahayla (6th)
Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri
Bible w/all Bible study Bible study Bible study Bible w/all
Saxon Saxon Problem solving Saxon Problem solving
Spelling Nature Study Spelling Spelling Spelling test
Journal Artist Tea Writing Blog Foreign lang
Grammar Lap Club meeting Grammar Grammar
Typing
30 min reading 30 min reading 30 min reading 30 min reading 30 min reading
Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano
History History Chemistry History
Caleb (3rd)
Bible w/all Bible study Bible study Bible study Bible w/all
Math Math Math Math Math
Phonics/Read Read Alone Phonics/Read Phonics/Read Read Aloud
Spelling Nature Study Spelling Spelling Spelling Test
Journal Artist Tea Cursive copywork Cursive copywork Foreign lang
Grammar Club meeting Grammar Grammar
Piano Typing Piano
History History Chemistry History
You can see many of our curriculum choices here. We will do the following subjects together as a family:
- Some Bible
- Nature Study
- Artist Tea
- History
- Chemistry
Our small county homeschool group already meets for Creation Club and 4-H. Since both groups already meet on Tuesdays, we decided to add two more clubs to round out the month. We’ll have a club four Tuesday afternoons a month. The other clubs will vary between art, chemistry, a book of the month club and play dates thrown in for good measure.
I’m with you, a good schedule makes for peaceful, productive days in our home and therefore a peaceful heart and mind for this mama! It gives me a sort of “all is right with the world again” feeling.
We just moved quite a ways from home and are expecting a new little one in 12 days, so we’re really taking our “vacation time” now through the end of December (we continued school during this past summer in anticipation of the forthcoming break.) But I can’t handle all-out vacation mode, so I am working hard to establish a reasonable routine that we can maintain even during the foggy, sleepless weeks that are to come. In the meantime, I’ll derive vicarious enjoyment through the routine school days of others like yourself! 😉
~K
Do you have a link to your current year’s schedule? What ages are your kids? I’d love it if you emailed me as I’m working on refining my ‘CM’ schedule for this year and am not finding ways to get it as ‘simple’ looking as yours. LOL