Homeschool 2011-2012

The school year has started! We did a trial week last week and everything seemed to go great. The first day I will admit was pretty hard, but what can you expect going from pretty unscheduled days to a scheduled day. #4 is finally on a nap schedule and he is asleep almost the whole time during school. He wakes up at lunch time and goes back to sleep once we start up school again. Even if he wakes up he is just a happy, smiley baby and will either sit in my lap or sling or swing. We start at 9-11:45 then lunch until 1 and then 1-2:30. I am putting my 5 year old in 1/2 day morning Kindergarten mostly just for fun. There isn’t a lot he can do extra curricular, and I think this will be good for him.

I made these cute things for my scrapbook and thought I would share them with you. I found the idea on Pinterest, but it came from here. I also did these interview with my kids.

I thought I would share my curriculum and also share with you a little bit about what goes on in our homeschool.

I hope to get up at 6:00 and read and study and exercise {but right now it all depends on my night sleep and how many times my baby gets up}

Kids get up at 7:45 and make bed, get dressed and do chores and be at the table by 8:20 for breakfast and family devotional.

Devotional – Morning before Cowboy goes to “Building School” {820-8:45}

Prayer
Pledge
Weather
Calendar
Song – Patriotic and Fun Song I use this site to get
Scripture Memorization – Articles of Faith & Book of Mormon Scripture Mastery
Poem – Our Family Poetry Book – A book of poems I put together that I learned growing up
Joy – Teaching Children Joy – One joy a week
State – One a week {Free curriculum from here}
President- Learn about a president a week from here, and learn this song

History – Story of the World {Daily 1st and 3rd week – Afternoons}

Science – K12 Washington Online School {Daily 2nd and 4th week- Afternoons}

Math – Right Start Math {Daily-mornings}

Language Art – K12 Washington Online School {Daily-mornings}

Spelling and Writing – Writing Road to Reading {Daily-mornings}

Reading– Classic books list from here {Daily-mornings}

Phonics – 1st Language Lessons {Daily-mornings}

Geography – Continents, Core Knowledge Books {Monday}

Art – Artistic Pursuits {Tuesday}

Music – Teaching Hymns, Children’s songs, and Stories of the Great Composers (Book & CD) {Wednesday}

Spanish – Hooked on Spanish {Thursday} {Someone just gave this to me!}

Cooking Class – So Easy Toddler Food Cookbook {Friday}

Typing Program – Dance Mat Typing

Scripture Study – Discover the Scriptures and The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families

Other Stuff I will use

Core Knowledge Books
Webster’s 1828 dictionary – {to help us research, reason, relate and record different subjects}
Starfall
ABCya
Letter of the Week Curriculum
Music Lessons
LaLa is in a Musical Theater Class 2 times a week

Things I would like to learn and do this year are…