Soooooo here goes!
the bare bones look:
9:00 start school
12:00-1:00 lunch/break
1:00- ?? finish
We try to start school at 9am. The two oldest are done sometime in the afternoon depending on fast or slow they are going that day.
First let me say that we use My Father’s World (MFW) for history 1st thing in the morning. We start with Bible and do any history reading together. At this time they can draw something to do with history we are reading ( I may have a notebooking page and a sentence to go with it) or with MFW in the 5 year cycle they use God and the History of Art and so we may to an art page for that. We also use extramath- its a free online math review and they do that daily whenever the computer is available. We use workboxes and the kids can work through those throughout the day. When they are young they need to go in the order I have put the boxes, as they get older they can do them in the order they choose. We use Math U See (MUS) so they all watch their lesson and read the TM if needed. I always check the 1st page before they move on to catch any misunderstanding, etc. We use speel to write and read (SWR) for phonics/spelling. The two oldest have finished this and they all use IEW (institute for excellence in writing) at various levels. The two youngest to IEW with me as well as SWR. WE also uses Apologia science for the older kids.My main goal is to get any thing done with all 4 kids or even just the 2 youngest in the morning. They each have a sheet with their weekly schedule that I fill in saturday or sunday night. They have to cross off what they have finished and they know that by crossing it off they are saying that they have completed that work.
I have not always been this organized. When I first started homeschooling we were doing the alphabet, numbers, and the Beautiful Feet for American history books where I read the pages and they did a coloring page. Those coloring pages turned into lapbooks, and that turned into notebooking, etc. I started out on a shoestring budget and we have opted for more expensive curriculum that can be passed down to all 4 kids eventually. Our homeschooling has always begun in the planning stages with prayer so that when those tough days come I can stay anchored by the fact that I know we are doing exactly whet the Lord had planned for that year. =) I have included my youngest and oldest kids weekly schedule sheets. They are not filled in, but you get the idea how that would work. I do not fil in any thing for my youngest and he has the symbols as he is not quite reading yet. I just transitioned him from just symbols, to now he has a little bit of writing. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have questions, etc.
Kelly
