Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Week 5 - Tuesday


We are enjoying great weather for the beginning of our school year, so most days you will find us outside in the morning. We are using the Sonlight Curriculum, Core 1 History of the World. I really like how everything is laid out for us. I just open the Instructors Guide (IG) and turn to the corresponding week and it lists everything we are to do daily. You can even choose from a 5-Day or 4-Day week. We are doing the 5-Day as it goes through more information in a quicker time frame. We are using Horizon Math, The Reason For Handwriting and additional reading books from the library, but otherwise everything is Sonlight.


Ava Marie is working on a workbook I picked up from Costco. We use these workbooks over the summer to keep the girls skills up and ready for the next school year. I am thinking we may do homeschool year round. It depends how we will work it out with the other two girls home. I tend to think it would work out well because it would give them some structure during the summer.

Mostly Ava Marie had reading books from Sonlight, not workbooks, but she insisted since her sister was using a workbook to write in.

Katy is usually done with all of her work before lunch. After lunch Ava and Aidan take naps and Katy reads or works on a project like sewing or scrapbooking. I work in my office and try to make phone calls or answer emails. As I said before, we are both really enjoying this, I just hope I am doing everything right. It seems like it is too fun to be school work!

Monday, September 20, 2010

Week 5 - Monday


Our homeschool adventure has started off terrific! Katy and I are both enjoying ourselves, so is Ava Marie. We usually start in the morning and Katy is almost always done by noon. Here is a picture of all of our homeschool curriculum. The bottom shelf has all of Ava Marie's books and my IG (Instructors Guide) Binders and Katy's Binders. The next shelf up is all of Katy's books and her Science Supplies and her Math Manipulatives. The top shelf has some other school supplies I like to keep up high so the other girls don't use them and walk away with them.

To the left of the shelf is our kitchen/dining area and that is where Katy does most of her work.