Homeschooling

Day in the Life- What does your “typical” homeschool day look like?

August 26, 2012 By Thaleia 3 Comments

A Day in The Life of a Homeschooler

Eeks, that really varies depending on week of the month and day of the week. Let me explain. We are in a Co-op that I am running the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Friday afternoons of the month. We are also part of a group that has monthly gym days and field trips along with Mom’s Encouragement Nights. Then there’s always a free nature activity or other freebie event that we may decide to attend on a whim or plan in advance. On top of all that is college classes for Dad AND Mom as well as ballet and art classes. Not sure if we will do an AWANA program this year or not. Also thinking about checking out 4-H!

This is a possible Monday at Maher Academy:

MONDAY
7:00-8:00am Mom Wakes up/Devotions/Planning/Shower

8:00-8:30am Breakfast for early risers

8:30-9:00 am Clean-up/Dinner Prep/Get Dressed

9:00-9:30 am Breakfast for late risers

9:30-11:00am Group work (Bible, Calendar Connections, Math)/Tot School

11:00-11:30am PE and Outside Play time

11:30-noon Lunch Prep with Dad while Mom heads to College

Noon-1:00 pm Eat Lunch and Clean up lunch/Work on chores

1:00- 1:30pm Have Read Aloud time with Dad (Mom comes home)

1:30-2:00pm Quiet Reading/Activity Time

2:00-3:00pm Wrap-up School Work and Finish Chore List

3:00-4:30pm Snack Time/Free Time

4:30-5:15pm Ballet for Princess/Boys go to Grandma’s

5:15-6:00pm Dinner (Dad goes to College)

6:00-8:00pm Free Time/Grandma’s

8:00-8:30pm Bath Time

8:30-9:00pm Snack Time (Dad Come Home)

9:00-9:15pm Bible Story/Devotion

9:15-9:30pm Bedtime for Early Risers and Quiet Time for Late Risers

This would be a typical Monday except for once a month we will have Gym Days from
10am-noon unless it’s too much for Dad to take them since Mom has school. TBD:)

What We did ALL Week- August 19-25

August 25, 2012 By Thaleia 1 Comment

We started the week off with an ice cream social hosted by our county park department. We were offered ice cream, pie, cookies, water, and a chance to play some games. They had cornhole and croquette. We brought our game bag filled with frisbees, bubbles, and plastic kiddie horseshoes.

We intended to begin homeschool this week but both my husband and I were sick the first half of the week with head-cold flu yuckiness. So instead the kids got to spend a few more nights out in the tent and more time outside playing, riding bikes, or hanging out with friends.

Lil’ Red still loves to ride his worm and I caught him on the picnic table outback!

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Free research, report, planners, homeschool and blog resources!

August 24, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Great Resources for Homeschool:

Sometimes I find some really great resources online for homeschool. I save them to my pc if they are pdf’s, but when I go to share them later it is not always easy to find the origimal source for them. So this is a list of really great places to find research info., reports, book reports, and graphic organizers. Some of these I have printed and plan on sharing with our LHP/PP/Pioneer Co-op this fall. Others are just for our families reference (in case we need them.) Still thought it might be of help to other homeschool families and worth the time to track down links and share!

Super cute mini-reports, flip-report, and grahic organizers for history and science:

I like the mini-reports for animals.

Research Organizers and Report Packs

Nature Journals from Notebooking Fairy

Muscular System Lapbook

Book Report Forms:

For all sorts of book- Fiction, FairyTale, Biography,Historical Novel, Jokes/Riddles,etc.

K-6 grade Book Report Forms

Young Reader and Older Reader Forms

Book Report Form and Reading Log from Jolanthe

Student Planners:

Student Planner Ideas

Planner Page

Donna Young’s Planner Page

Character/Bible Studies:

Confessions of a Homeschooler free Bible printables- character studies

Kid’s World Bible Study Videos from The Mailbox Club

The Children’s Chapel Coloring Pages

All sorts of Bible resources- Coloring pages, Copywork, Seeds of Worship pages, File Folder Games

Science/Animal Study:

Expedition Earth From Confessions of a Homeschooler

Why Nature Walks? by Cultivated Lives

Literature Units:

FIAR from Homeschool Creations

Back-to-School Helps:

Lunch Box Planner– great ideas for planning out lunches.

Homeschool Planner– 1st page does have Mormon verse/quote

Homeschooling for FREE and Frugal ebook by Holy-Spirit Led Homeschooling

Planning Binder– tons of great forms free for personal use!

Blog resources:

My Pinterest Board

Blog Organization

How to Create Blog Notebook– great ideas

Free Printable Blog Planner

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Students- What do your students look like?

August 19, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Everyone is a student in our house! No, really it’s true. Riley and I are attending college. Eldest and Princess are homeschooling using Prairie Primer. Lil’ Red is in Tot School. I’m gonna include a new photo of each of us or maybe a collage of silly faces:)
Want a super good list of school pics? Check out Rebecca @simple as that blogs back-to-school photo tips!

Well it only takes a couple of days of craziness with neighborhood kids, a lost dog, and allergies to totally derail a new bloggers post schedule. Yep, that’s what happened to me this weekend. I had printed signs for each member to hold and we just finished coloring them after dinner tonight. We are all so exhausted that new pics for everyone will not be possible by blog posting time:) Will update this post this week with new pics but for now this is what I’ve got!

School Room-What does your school room look like?

August 12, 2012 By Thaleia 6 Comments

We usually start school in the kitchen or on the couch, but if the weather is really nice on the 1st day of school we try to do something outside or go to a nature park or play park or something FUN to kick off the new school year!
I decided taking some pictures would be the best way to show you our space-

Kitchen Table with USA Maps (found at dollar store), ASL/Signing Time printable practice cards and Bible verse copywork, Calendar Connections, 2012 Art Calendar:

Small Table, Calendar, and Lil’ Red’s Workspace:

TOT SCHOOL SHELF for Lil’ Red:

I’ll be honest we did not get the desk in our kitchen cleaned off or the desktop computer desk area in Princess’ room so those pics will be left out, lol. We also use a laptop, e-reader, and other portable learning tools.

Our outdoor space looks like this:

Thanks for stopping by and peeking into our homeschool world. As we get more organized and use some of our NEW things and find some OLD things we will post them to share.

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