This year, we added Adam as an actual student in our crazy homeschool. He is a kindergartener now, and I wish I could say he is loving it, but that would be a big fat lie. He hates pretty much all of school, except science experiments, playing outside and field trips. Oh, and gym. I've been consulting with my friends who are moms of boys and they say this is pretty typical.* I can actually spell and grammar, but I haven't slept and the iPad hates blogger.*
So what's going on in our school? Are we doing any actual learning? What curriculum are we using?Well, let me tell you.
Adam, Kindergarten
Sing, Spell, Read and Write- Language arts, phonics
Horizons Math-K
Apologia Human Anatomy
SOTW Volume 3 Early Modern
Piano lessons
Homeschool PE
Laura-2nd Grade
LLATL yellow book
Soaring with spelling
Growing with Grammar
Daily journal/writing activity
Book reports, writing to a prompt
Horizons Math-2
Apologia Human Anatomy
Scott Foresman 2nd grade Science
SOTW volume 3 Early Modern
Piano lessons
Homeschool PE
Swim team
Sarah-4th Grade
LLATL orange Book
Soaring with Spellilng
Growing with Grammar
Daily journal/ writing activity
Book reports, writing to a prompt
Horizons math 4
Apologia Human Anatomy
SOTW Early Modern
Studies weekly California History
Violin lessons
Ballet/tap lessons
Emma-7th
History odyssey modern times
SOS 7th grade science
Teaching Textbooks PreAlgebra
STEM engineering class
Online English-Emma is a beta tester for an English program for our charter
Piano lessons
Ballet/tap lessons
Swim team, basketball
Annie
IEW American Literature-Honors
Glencoe American History
Teaching Textbooks algebra 2
Glencoe Physics
Rosetta Stone Spanish 3
Shakespeare Conquest
French 1
Guitar
How do we do it all, you might ask? We don't. Annie is on a block schedule, and also does school work on the weekends, in addition to interning at our music school. Emma's history and English are combined, and she is learning how to write essays and complete more involved work than ever before. History and science alternate days for the younger 3, with Adam bowing out of most of it, or refusing to color a related page. But that's cool, he won't remember much of it anyway.
Monday, we have Homeschool PE at 1:00, in a different town. The 3 elementary school kids go to a gymnastics place for instruction and activities for 1.5 hours. The older girls either stay home and work in the quiet, or come along and go to the library, or we do any necessary shopping. They usually stay home. We get home around 3. Swim goes from 4-6. Dance goes from 5:30-6:30. Instead of trying to manage all that, we skipped swim on Monday. Makes life easier. Then I'm not so stressed for my meeting. Did I mention I started a Brownie Troop? Yeah, I did that. Council meetings are 1monday a month, 7pm. So jam home from dance, go to council meeting.
Tuesdays are blissfully uneventful, with just swim in the afternoons.
On Wednesdays, we have to get Annie to her class by 2pm. We have music lessons in the same building at 2:30. So we sit in the car and work on either science or history,while Emma reads. Then we go in to music until 3:30. During swim team, we then had to drive back to our town, drop off Emma and Laura by 4,then go home and finish any schoolwork. Depending on if there was Girl Scouts, the swimmers were picked up at 5, or 6. On Girl Scout days, Emma would jump in the shower, eat dinner and be at the meeting with Sarah by 6:30.
Thursdays, Annie has class once again, at 2:30. I drop her off, Howard gets her on his way home. Then it was swim, 4-6, depending on Girl Scouts, and them scrambling to get Laura to her meeting, and be reasonably prepared to lead the troop in fun, engaging, girl-led activities.
Friday, Emma has STEM class, and 1 x a month, our certified teacher drops by for 4 hours to see how we are doing, collect samples, help with whatever.
Saturdays we can breathe, as long as we get Annie to her internship and guitar lessons in time. We try to clean up the hurricane cause by our frantic week.
Sundays are relaxing, and also the day we do all the laundry we need for the upcoming week.
So there you have it, a sample of the crazy that goes on here on a weekly basis. Thankfully, swim is over for the fall. Although Emma and Laura dearly miss it.
I often feel like my wheels are just spinning, I get pretty stressed sometimes. Thankfully, I've made friends with a few local homeschool moms. We can get together and talk, and reassure each other. It is nice to have support. As a bonus, one family lives within walking distancs and our kids get along well.and she is pretty laid back.
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