5 Days of Homeschool Life - Day 5

Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 in case you missed them!

Each week I try to wrap up our week by participating in The Homeschool Mother's Journal.  It's a fun way for me to journal our week and see other homeschoolers in action.

In my life this week… 

It started with a fun Mother's Day.  I received goodies picked out by my babies - a new apron, earrings, and a new coffee mug.  They know me so well!  The cards really made my day.

In our homeschool this week...

We started with a great week but ended up with me not feeling so well.  I'm still not up to full speed but I press on.  Here is a picture of the kids presenting their writing stories.  This week's theme was adventure fiction.  Pictures taken by the kids. :)

My favorite thing this week was…
Mother's Day was definitely my favorite thing of the week.


The weather was also gorgeous and the fresh air makes me feel better.  Can you see what is wrong with this picture?

Please excuse the toe, lol.

Although, it also shows the heart of this child towards his sister.  He is the big brother I always wanted!!  So sweet!!  In case you can't tell, he gave up his bike to let her ride and he rode the little pink princess bike.  :)

Things I’m working on…

Taking it easy really and trying to get back to full health.


Things I’m grateful for…

I'm grateful for a wonderful, God fearing and loving husband!


Scripture focus this week was 1 Corinthians 13!

Link to share…
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5 Days of Homeschool Life - Day 4

Welcome back to our life - day 4.

Here is Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 if you missed any.

I need you to take our your paper and pen for this one.  You will see no charts today or pictures because mama/teacher/homemaker/wife/so much more is not feeling well. 

So, we had one of those days when absolutely nothing was done.  The schedule was thrown out the window and we pretty much watched Netflix all day.  

Yep really, that's what we did!

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Coming up tomorrow - More life :)

5 Days of Homeschool Life - Day 3

Welcome back to our life - day 3.

Here is Day 1 and Day 2 if you missed them.
Pictures were taken over the course of 2 days!

Today, I will share our schedule outline with you.  I call it an outline because we do not necessarily follow it step by step every day.  We actually have 2 schedules that we follow through the school year.  For 24 weeks during the year, we follow this schedule.  For the rest of the weeks, we follow the schedule you see below.  We are a part of a local Classical Conversations community so we modify our schedule to fit our needs.  Below is our current schedule that we are using since our CC year has ended.  Feel free to download either one and edit it for your family if you find it helpful!

Color coded daily Schedule without CC.

Again, I must say that this is a reference for us.  I am not a slave to it but it does help me to "do the next thing".  For instance, my husband is normally off on Mondays so there are many Mondays that we take off or have field trips instead!  I also took NyQuil last night and overslept this morning so all of this is currently running several hours behind!

Morning Routine
Breakfast is usually fend for yourself and this is what their choice normally is.  Please don't hate.  :)

After breakfast, the kids get dressed and ready for the day and do their assigned chore from our Motivated Moms planner. (affiliate link)

School Time - School is done all over in our house.  We have our "school room" set up in my bedroom. Even so, we still work in the living room, the dining room, bedrooms, - all over!

Bible Time -  We use My Father's World (MFW) and add in any review items that we may be doing.  As a result of reviews, we are currently doing both MFW and God's Great Covenant because we loved it so much.  I only received 1 student book so we just do it orally. :)

We also include MFW's geography during our Bible time.

Proof that 8th graders still like to color! 

Math - Jonathan uses Teaching Textbooks, Pre-Algebra.

Stephen normally uses Saxon but here he is working on a review item, Envision Math - coming up soon!

Sarah also uses Saxon.

Reading - They have individual reading time but we have also added in a few books from Five In A Row that I picked up at our library.  You would not believe how much fun these children are having with these picture books.  I think it helps them to relax and they all love drawing.  Mainly, I read the background information, the book, and they pick an illustration to draw from the book.  Today's book was A Pair of Red Clogs.

Here are the finished illustrations.

Here is our artwork center aka the side of the fridge. :)

Piano practice - They are each being taught by their grandmother to play the piano.  She is such a blessing to us.  She is also great at teaching art!  She wants them to move up to guitar and violin lessons next.  The children are excited to do that as well!

Writing - This was rough draft day and I love to see them spread out like this!  Currently, we are all using Write Shop D - another review coming soon!  Jonathan was using Write With World but asked to join us with this one so I said sure.  And yes, that is a Nerf bullet by Stephen's toe - I have no clue why but it does count for a typical day, lol!

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Coming up next - A typical afternoon with pictures.

5 Days of Homeschool Life - Day 2

Welcome back to our life - day 2.  Today, I will share "my brain" with you.  Saturday planning cannot be done without "my brain".   "My brain" is where I keep everything at arms reach for the upcoming week.  

Here is "my brain"...

 On the left is a nice pocket where I keep extra supplies like dividers, paper, post it notes, labels, and scissors.

Here's what is inside...

Tab 1 - My personal quiet time sheets from the Hello Mornings group.

2nd tab - the week's chore sheets from the Motivated Moms chore planner. (affiliate link)  We all use this for our morning and afternoon chore time.  I write each child's name beside the chore I want them to do and am or pm.

3rd Tab - Daily Schedule (our will share more about this tomorrow!)

4th Tab - Current Attendance Record from The Well Planned Day Planner. (affiliate link)

5th Tab - Weekly Lesson Plan Sheets from My Father's World and this one that I shared yesterday.

6th tab - Weekly Sonlight reading schedule for each child/core and the reading comprehension questions.

Tab 7 - Our My Father's World Bible Memory Verses for the year.  You can also find cute printable of these verses for free at Mama Jenn's.

Tab/Pocket Folder 8 - Our weekly student sheets from My Father's World on one side.

Tab/Pocket Folder 8 Other side - Other Weekly Sheets such as First Language Lessons, vocabulary, biology sheets, etc. 

And there you have "My Brain"! Be sure to check out day 2 from my fellow crewmates by clicking on the banner below. 

Coming up next - our daily schedule and a typical morning for us right now.

5 Days of Homeschool Life - Day 1

You are viewing Day 1.  Here is Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, and Day 5.

I chose the general topic of Homeschool Life because I always love peaking into other homeschool lives!  So, here is a peak at one of our days.  

It all starts on Saturday.  Yep, that's right - Saturday!  Saturday is my day for planning my week and if i don't get this done (which happens more than I like), I feel totally lost and floundering for the whole week.  So, after soccer and lately dance practice, I spend Saturday afternoon planning.

Planning Lists

• Weekly Lesson Plan Excel - I actually use this along side our My Father's World planner. I didn't see the need to type all that over again so I just use both.  This one I can add our review items in too.  Feel free to download and edit it to fit your family.

Monthly Menu Planning List from Jolanthe at No Ordinary Moments

• I just fill it out week by week.  I like to hang this on the fridge to solve the what's for dinner question.  

The last thing to get ready is the school checklist for each child - they love checking off accomplishments as much as their mom.  :)  Not sure why it is showing up on 2 pages - if you download it, it is only 1.  Each child's list looks exactly like this one so they each have a template and I just fill out the details each week.  Again, feel free to download by clicking on the link.

J's Excel Checklist

I also take out my Well Planned Day (affiliate link) calendar and look over what events we have coming up for the week.  As soon as I receive dance schedules, church schedules, sports schedules, invitations, etc, I immediately write those events in my calendar and file the papers in the back until the events have passed.  I usually clean that out once a month.

My Saturday planning session usually takes about an hour to complete.  Sometimes, it is longer if I want to read ahead or especially when we receive new review items.

Starting my week off with this planning session sets the tone for the rest of the week for me!  Do you have a set time to plan your week?  Do you have any tips to share?

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Tomorrow, I'll share "my brain" and what a typical morning looks like around here right now.  If you have something in particular that you would like me to include, let me know!