Monday, September 3, 2007

A Starting Schedule

We have 180 days of school to complete and we are starting tomorrow. Here is a sample of our starting schedule. (I do expect that this will change throughout the year)

Along with the Academics, I give 5 piano lessons a week (Not counting Noah's), Mom's group at church, Adventure Club/Church Mice, field trips, and Social activities. I also will continue to babysit Madie who needs to be picked up from pre-school Mondays and Tuesdays at 11:30.

I've also based my approach on Charlotte Mason's method of education, so we will have lots of subjects broken up into 10 to 15 minute sessions. (This way we should get everything done in the morning.) Oh, and lots of time outdoors in nature. I am not going to put specific times on subjects such as Bible from 8 - 8:15. The only things that will have time indications are the things that have specific times and dates.

--MONDAY--

Bible
Memory Verse
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Math
Literature
Science
Poetry
P.E.
Geography
Piano
Drawing
Pick up Madie 11:30
Give Piano lessons 2:30 - 5:30

--TUESDAY--

Bible
Memory Verse
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Math
Moms group 9:30 - 11:30
Pick up Madie 11:30
Literature
Science
Poetry
P.E.
History
Music Appreciation
Art Appreciation
Home Economics

--WEDNESDAY--

Bible
Memory Verse
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Math
Literature
Science
Poetry
P.E.
Geography
Piano
Drawing

--THURSDAY--

Bible
Memory Verse
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Math
Literature
Science
Poetry
P.E.
History
Music Appreciation
Art Appreciation
Home Economics
Adventure Club and Church Mice 4:00 - 5:30 PM beginning Sept 13

--FRIDAY--
This is our less academic day: Library, field trips, Social activities, and time to fill in any subjects that were skipped for whatever reason during the rest of the week

Ok, there it is. We'll see how it goes!

2 comments:

Jayme said...

Just be careful that your fifteen minute teaching/learning intervals don't reinforce a short attention span! Push him past his level of interest.

jeny said...

That's a good point Jme. The book I'm using does encourage working up to a little longer span depending on the age.