Re: Let's share our schedules!
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:03 am
Schedule? What's a schedule?
Seriously, because we have three kids on three very different levels plus a toddler, it sometimes looks like crazy day at the zoo around here, but I'll try and give a general idea of what our days look like.
6:15 (ish) I get up, do my Bible study, check email and the board, do other random computer stuff
7:30 get dh up, start breakfast
8:00 make sure everyone is eating (I eat while I cook), jump in the shower, make sure dh is actually awake (not a morning person, my sweet husband )
8:30 do devotional with dh, wake up crabby teenager (also not a morning person ), remind older two kids to do their devotionals and get showers before 9:30
9:00 walk dh to the train station, stop by the corner market on the way home for milk and whatever else our tiny European fridge has run out of
9:30 check the chore chart, get older two started on chores while I do devotional with Josh (age 6)
10:00 (ish) OK, this is where life gets interesting. Generally I spend a few minutes going over the LA, Science, and Independent history assignments in Preparing with Caleb, and then he does those on his own while I work in Beyond with his brother. Shelby does independent work as well during this time, usually continuing the Progeny Press Literature analysis from the day before and working on vocabulary words
After I am done with Josh in Beyond, he goes off to do the copywork and handwriting while I check over Caleb's Preparing work and see if Shelby needs any help. She and I go over her grammar lesson and assignment, and I assign any independent history reading that she has for that day and she starts those. Caleb and I go over the Poetry section and the Bible assignment in Preparing and do whatever the activity is on the history page that day. Then he does any seatwork (vocab, handwriting, grammar--we use LLATL) that he didn't get done earlier while Shelby and I delve into her science.
12:00 (ish again) LUNCH BREAK
1:30 or so, Shelby and I delve into her Bible course (using BJU) while the boys get to keep playing. Then she and I go over her math, and she starts that while I call the boys back in for the Storytime box and the History reading (my youngest son is following along in the Preparing history just because that's easier for mom! ), and do the History project. Then Caleb and I do math. Shelby and I finish up her history, and I make any assignments, which she generally does on her own time for me to grade the next day. Then we all do art, usually an assignment geared toward Shelby, but the boys participate at their own levels and French. The boys practice piano and then go off to play. Once a week, we have chess.
4:00 (thereabouts ) We are done! Time for them to play, Mama to spend a few minutes on the computer, and then get to chores and supper.
Now always, somewhere in our midst, is a toddler who is either eating the art supplies, grabbing the half done homework, getting sticky fingerprints on the books I want to last through three more kids--you get the idea. At some point during every day--and this is the really good part--she winds up in somebody's lap to listen to stories, having someone take a break to sing nursery rhymes to her, having someone decide to sit and color with her (she loves to make crayon marks on paper), or finding herself on my hip while I try to direct one subject or another.
There is honestly never a dull moment. I wouldn't trade a single second of my wiggling, giggling, squabbling, squirming, eye-rolling, sometimes whining, sticky fingered, loving, laughing crew for anything in the whole wide world.
Seriously, because we have three kids on three very different levels plus a toddler, it sometimes looks like crazy day at the zoo around here, but I'll try and give a general idea of what our days look like.
6:15 (ish) I get up, do my Bible study, check email and the board, do other random computer stuff
7:30 get dh up, start breakfast
8:00 make sure everyone is eating (I eat while I cook), jump in the shower, make sure dh is actually awake (not a morning person, my sweet husband )
8:30 do devotional with dh, wake up crabby teenager (also not a morning person ), remind older two kids to do their devotionals and get showers before 9:30
9:00 walk dh to the train station, stop by the corner market on the way home for milk and whatever else our tiny European fridge has run out of
9:30 check the chore chart, get older two started on chores while I do devotional with Josh (age 6)
10:00 (ish) OK, this is where life gets interesting. Generally I spend a few minutes going over the LA, Science, and Independent history assignments in Preparing with Caleb, and then he does those on his own while I work in Beyond with his brother. Shelby does independent work as well during this time, usually continuing the Progeny Press Literature analysis from the day before and working on vocabulary words
After I am done with Josh in Beyond, he goes off to do the copywork and handwriting while I check over Caleb's Preparing work and see if Shelby needs any help. She and I go over her grammar lesson and assignment, and I assign any independent history reading that she has for that day and she starts those. Caleb and I go over the Poetry section and the Bible assignment in Preparing and do whatever the activity is on the history page that day. Then he does any seatwork (vocab, handwriting, grammar--we use LLATL) that he didn't get done earlier while Shelby and I delve into her science.
12:00 (ish again) LUNCH BREAK
1:30 or so, Shelby and I delve into her Bible course (using BJU) while the boys get to keep playing. Then she and I go over her math, and she starts that while I call the boys back in for the Storytime box and the History reading (my youngest son is following along in the Preparing history just because that's easier for mom! ), and do the History project. Then Caleb and I do math. Shelby and I finish up her history, and I make any assignments, which she generally does on her own time for me to grade the next day. Then we all do art, usually an assignment geared toward Shelby, but the boys participate at their own levels and French. The boys practice piano and then go off to play. Once a week, we have chess.
4:00 (thereabouts ) We are done! Time for them to play, Mama to spend a few minutes on the computer, and then get to chores and supper.
Now always, somewhere in our midst, is a toddler who is either eating the art supplies, grabbing the half done homework, getting sticky fingerprints on the books I want to last through three more kids--you get the idea. At some point during every day--and this is the really good part--she winds up in somebody's lap to listen to stories, having someone take a break to sing nursery rhymes to her, having someone decide to sit and color with her (she loves to make crayon marks on paper), or finding herself on my hip while I try to direct one subject or another.
There is honestly never a dull moment. I wouldn't trade a single second of my wiggling, giggling, squabbling, squirming, eye-rolling, sometimes whining, sticky fingered, loving, laughing crew for anything in the whole wide world.