Daily Schedule - Summer 2007

NOT set in stone! This is just a general outline of what I'd like to accomplish each day and in what order.

MONDAY:

• Spelling - introduce words for the week; do half of a lesson (2ish pages)
  
• Math - one lesson
  
• Phonics - one lesson
  
• lunch
  
• History - read SOTW, do map work, read encyclopedias
  
• Gymnastics - catch up time with one while the other is in class
  

TUESDAY:

• Library - get books for general and for history reading (we've generally been going to the library on Wednesdays)
  
• Phonics - do one lesson or read one reader (continuation from ballet?)
  
• Math - one lesson
  
• lunch
  
• Science - textbook, workbook, activity book, experiment, or library book
  
• Ballet - read with Cameron while Cassia is in class (HA! More like, chase Greyson while reassuring Cameron that we will be able to leave soon!)
  

WEDNESDAY:

• Spelling - do second half of lesson
  
• Phonics - one lesson
  
• Math - one lesson
  
• History - outline read Usborne Encyclopedia, read a library book
  
• lunch
  
• History - do activity
  
• Park Day - socialize ;)
  

THURSDAY:

• Phonics - do one lesson or read one reader
  
• Math - one lesson
  
• lunch
  
• Science - textbook, workbook, activity book, experiment, or library book
  
• Music/Art Appreciation - read books, look at prints, listen to music
  

FRIDAY:

• Spelling - test
  
• History - books and/or activity
  
• catch up on anything that may have been neglected during the week
  
• lunch at park, alternate weeks
  
• Art Technique - Drawing with Children or Artistic Pursuits project, weeks we're not at the park
  

*Notes: I included Spelling in this daily schedule even though I promised Cameron that we would take a spelling break over the summer. I won't start it right away, but am hoping to start it again mid-August when the public schools start up again. Grammar is going to wait until Fall (Autumnal Equinox) and I don't want to start in with both Spelling and Grammar at the same time.

One thing I did leave out of the schedule, that I know we are committed to, is soccer. That will be starting in August and will likely be one or two practices a week plus a game on Saturday. But of course, they won't tell us when or where until, oh, the day before we need to be there. I think that runs through November and then basketball starts up. We'll see how crazy soccer is, but Cam's t-ball coach swore that the Boys & Girls Club basketball is great fun and doesn't take too much time. DH, his brother, and all their cousins are big basketball players so I don't want Cameron to miss out on learning that - I'm certainly not going to teach him!

4-H is another thing that I can't schedule in just yet. The business meetings are one Tuesday a month and the project times vary - people try to keep them on one Tuesday a month though for consistency. But that may not start until September anyway, making it part of the Fall Schedule.

Field trips for next year are going to be more sporadic than this year. Our homeschool group's field trip coordinator is not planning organized bi-monthly trips again. I guess she got tired of she and I being the only ones to show up. She announced that she will notify the group of cool places she is going when they come up, but that is about it. Too bad. I will miss them. But I guess now I will be able to concentrate more on cool field trips that will correspond to our history study.

As a final note, I have to mention that I really wanted to start Cassia on OPGTR this year, but I'm not sure when I can work it in since there isn't really anything that Cameron can do independently yet. Maybe while he's in gymnastics or at soccer practice? Hopefully I'll be able to find some time each day to sit and work with her. I think she'll pick it up quickly if we just sit down and do it.

**End of Summer Notes: Funny how much I "planned" to do but never got worked into my schedule. It's not really that I never got around to these things, it's just that they never seemed "right." I love that I have been able to remain flexible enough to not stress when things don't go according to plan. I've seen way too many posts about homeschoolers just losing their marbles when their plans go awry, lol. I'm happy to keep things in motion and adaptive to our family flow. So Spelling is now slated for Fall Quarter and Grammer, maybe, Winter? I'd still like to get more Classical Music into our lives. I need to get back onto Classical Archives and download some stuff. Or maybe I just need to play the stuff we have, lol.