Homeschool Update: I can’t believe we are in week 5 already!
by Jennifer. on October 11th, 2011
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This school year is flying by! Whizzzzzzzzzzzz, and weeeeeeeeeeeee! I’ll give a little update on what we have done so far.
Here are the items we worked on during our morning “Together Time.”
- Read daily portions of the Gospel following the Ecclesiastical year using The Planner
- Memorized up to “and in one Lord Jesus Christ” of the The Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 A.D.
- Read and thoroughly enjoyed the first 4 chapters of The Living God Volume 1
- Read and learned about The Divine Liturgy using Heaven on Earth
- Listened to 8 hours of audio (half an hour per day) summarizing the history of Israel and Judah, titled Our Young Folks Josephus
- Read and key word outlined Chapter 1 in Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day
- Practiced “The Beatitudes” from Matthew Chapter 5:3-12
- Practiced the first 15 Greek & Latin Roots from English from the Roots Up Volume 1
At around noon we break for lunch and I check my e-mail and do some work or social networking. The younger kids usually eat and play Legos. My oldest daughter calls her homeschooled friends and talks on the phone for about an hour. At 1:00 each of the children work on their skill based studies. Here is a list of what we are using for the rest of our subjects.
7th Grader
- Writing: IEW, working on key word outlines.
- Words: Vocabulary from the Classical Roots. We are using this for spelling words as well as a review of the vocabulary, which we focused on last year.
- Penmanship: Lives of Saints Volume 2 – ZB Intermediate Cursive
- Math: Teaching Textbooks Algebra I
- Reading: Historical novels which coincide with our history, right now it’s, The Greatest Book Ever Written: The Old Testament Storyby Fulton Oursler.
- Science: The Rainbow: Physics and Chemistry
- Music: Guitar lessons & practice
3rd Grader & 2nd Grader
- Writing: IEW, key word outlines
- Grammar: First Language Lessons 2
- Words: Phonetic Zoo (3rd Grade), Explode the Code (2nd Grade)
- Penmanship: Cursive (3rd Grade), Manuscript (2nd Grade)
- Math: Math in Focus 3A & 2A
- 3rd Grader takes Guitar lessons & practice
On Friday’s we have enjoyed participating in a homeschool co-op with our friends. We have classes for all ages, so even my pre-schooler gets to take classes, and my oldest gets to participate in a Project Management class, and everything in between. I have enjoyed teaching a class of 23! children, art from my favorite art curriculum, Atelier. I look forward to putting on an art show to display the children’s work at the end of the school year. We already have some excellent projects to show.
To sum up, our days are full, working from around 9:30-ish to 4:00-ish, with a one hour lunch break, Monday through Thursday. On Friday we attend co-op for half the day, then the second half of the day we spend cleaning rooms, catching up on laundry, sweeping, mopping, etc. etc. so that we can enjoy a clean house over the weekend. I am enjoying this year very much, and I am at peace with what we are up to. Thank you for sharing in my joy.
Categories: Christianity to 1453, Homeschool
Mimi
It sounds like things are going fantastic and good learning abounds!