I am so behind planning our school year.
I spent the spring helping another homeschooling mother try to form a new community and the summertime running sewing camps. So I’ve spent August scrambling to get my ducks in a row. Last year, I had everything ready by mid July. Oh well. That’s the good thing about homeschooling… flexibility. I’m still waiting on a few more resources to arrive. But I thought I would share a rough draft of options I’m considering for this school year. (We will definitely not use ALL of these. ) Most of our curriculum and resources are by: Simply Charlotte Mason, A Gentle Feast, The Peaceful Press, A Cottage Press, and Living Book Press. I hope to do separate posts on each subject once everything arrives. Check back later for pictures…. and revisions. 😉
7:30 am: Breakfast, Chores, and Habit Training
*Guide: Simply Charlotte Mason (SCM) “Laying Down the Rails”
8:00 am: Morning Time Loop
*Guide: Morning Time Packet Cycle 1 via A Gentle Feast
*Truth (15 min): Bible Study: Scripture
*Beauty Loop (15 min):
- Hymn: Then Sings My Soul
- Picture Study: DaVinci + VanGogh+ Michaelangelo
- Composers: Simply Charlotte Mason Composer Series
- Fables and Fairytales: Grimm’s Fairy Tales + Aesop’s Fables
- Poetry: Shakespeare + Milton Poetry Readers
*Goodness (20 min): The Chronicles of Narnia + Shakespeare for Children via The Kind Kingdom
Handwriting workbooks while they listen: The Good and The Beautiful
*Memory Loop (10 min): Math Facts, Bible Verse, Latin Vocab, Poetry
9:00 am: Morning Walk and Snack break
*Guide: Nature Study: Exploring Nature with Children
10:00 am: Language Arts (Work 20 minutes with each child)
*5 year old : The Good and the Beautiful level PreK/ + Explode the Code (A)
*8 year old: The Logic of English Foundations level C and D + Explode the Code (4)
*9 year old: A Gentle Feast Form Cycle 1 II Language Arts + Explode the Code (7)
*Tutorial (Mon & Fri) literature: The Boxcar Children + The Mouse and the Motorcycle + The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
11:00 am: Math (Work 20 minutes with each child)
*5 year old: Abeka Math + Math Seeds for extra practice
*8 year old: Abeka Math + Math Seeds for extra practice
*9 year old: Abeka Math + Teaching Textbooks level 4 for extra practice
- Multiplication tables: The Good and the Beautiful Musical Multiplication
12:00 pm: Lunch and Learn Loop
*History, Science, Geography, Time Line
*History Guide: The Kind Kingdom
We will supplement with these resources when necessary to explore subjects in further detail:
*History supplement : A Child’s History of the World
*Science: Space: The Good and The Beautiful Space
*Science supplement: Science in the Ancient World + Amazing Inventions of DaVinci
*Geography supplement: Home Geography for Primary Grades + Draw Europe
*Timeline supplement: A Book of Centuries
*Tutorial (Mon & Fri) resources: Story of the World + Exploring Creation with Astronomy
12:30 pm: Quiet Time (aka MOM TIME)
-Read independently, play quietly inside, or explore outside
1:00 pm: Handcrafts and Humanities
*Tutorial (Mon & Fri): Art + Latin
*Community Tutors (Tuesday): Ukele + Spanish
*At home (Wed & Thur): Handcrafts (art and knitting) + Piano
- Resources: Hoffman Academy + Waldorfish Art + Knitting + Draw and Write through History
- Preschool Unit Studies: The Peaceful Press
3:00 pm: Tea Time
*Resources: A Gentle Feast + The Cottage Press
*Loop: Brushwork Drawing + Nature Study
*Character Building: Q&A Book + Cat and Dog Theology + Knights in Training
*Journal: Commonplace Book
4:00 pm: Blessing Hour (tidy up)
4:30 pm: Play outside with friends
5:30 pm: Eat dinner
RINSE, REST, and REPEAT
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