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I love to hear what everyone on these boards is doing for "school" either on a daily or weekly basis. Having no in-person local CM friends, I enjoy hearing what constitutes a "day" for you all, gathering ideas and sharing all our fun teacher "goodies" together. Kinda' like the Teacher's Lounge  ...
On paper for this month I have planned a nice little unit around The Wind in the Willows (had it planned since August) but due to burnout  and the fact that we've been having so much fun with our saints topics from last week that I'm thinking we're going to bag The Wind in the Willows (until the new baby arrives) and just embrace the fun of Fall...
So, this week that leaves us with...
Language:
-Copywork "Autumn Fires" by R. L. Stevenson
-Narration about today's field trip to the apple orchard
-Phonics...Do a page or two in the MCP workbooks
-Finish Listening to Farmer Boy on tape
-Read Aloud Ch. 3 of Winnie the Pooh and saint stories from the new basket
Nature Walk:
Maybe more on mushrooms like last week, or trees or leaves (something fall)... Nature Journal Narr. & Illus. with photo (LOVE having a digital camera, finally!)
Math:
-Geometry book read-alouds (lots of shape books)
-Maybe a shape scavenger hunt (use that blue painter's tape on the rug to make shape outlines and then send them running to find the right shape for inside each outline)
-Make jack-o-lantern faces with different shapes (art!!)
-Playing with the new Hands-On Geometry Kit from Lakeshore
Religion:
-Color the rosary picture for the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary while listening to The Rosary for Children CD(should have done this on Saturday but we baked and swapped out the summer clothes for fall instead!!)
-Do the next page in 6yo's First Communion Notebook
-Make Saint Teresa of Avila's Bread (recipe from the link/thread found in A Living Faith board  )
-Read more books about the saints
Just For Fun:
I got several different kinds of apples from the orchard today. I think we'll have some tasting and do alittle math (graph our favorites or sort, compare & contrast, weigh, etc) and read some books about apples while our homemade applesauce simmers in the crockpot...
Oh, and the 3yo has been begging to make his own "book" (like big brothers) so I wrote out an outline this weekend for a mouse-shaped book about colors based on the book Mouse Paint. I think I'll try to pull the pages together this week so we can start working on it sometime next week.
Okay, throw in a morning at co-op and there's our week
Anyone else want to share?! Aw, come on! 
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Wow!! Can I come learn and play at your house? Sounds like fun. You are so creative!
I am boring and dull. My "schedule" for this year--the "pie in the sky"-if we miss stuff I try not to fret:
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During breakfast a chapter of Faith and Life-for some reason it is "thicker" this year and we have been on Chapter 2 for 3 weeks :)
Shiller Math-I try to get, and they are short, 1-3 lessons done.
LLATL--as a spine, see what they cover and try to hit the goals-ds isn't to keen on the workbook but I needed something to start grammer--or is it grammAR? It is early !
Try to practice math facts.
-Tuesday-
My Path to Heaven
Shiller
LLATL
-Wednesday(1/2 day due to piano and choir in afternoon)
Childrens Treasure Box-my kids are really enjoying this :)
Listen to chapter of Story of the World II on Cd on way to piano
Math Mania puzzles
-Thursday-usually co-op/try for field trip
Saint Stories
History Project/craft
-Friday--(grocery shop in late afternoon)
MAgnifiKid-read gospel for Sunday and some of the activities
Shiller Math
LLATL if not finished with the weeks lesson
And I am trying to put in Friday Freewrite and TEa Party but it hasn't worked in yet.
I have to realize we walk everyday and play in the yard and if anyone calls to meet at a playground we are there!! I need to find more time for play as my kids are craving it.
I wish I could relax more but third grade has me nervous and I am not that confident in things like math so like to have an idea of what to cover--and I am learning just as much if not more than ds. I wish I could unschool but I don't feel smart enough, sad, but true.
Can't wait to see what others do...
Anne
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I did a search and can't find the recipe you mentioned for St. Teresa of Avila bread. Where can I find that. It sounds great.
God Bless,
Katherine in TX
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Sorry about that, Katherine! If it isn't on the 4Real boards then maybe I took a rabbit trail from one of the links that were posted here...
Anyway, here it is. The whole site looks really great with lots of Saint Teresa ideas! Enjoy! 
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Thanks Kristine. That sounds really yummy. I think I'll be putting my older ones to work for breakfast on the 15th.
God Bless,
Katherine
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I love reading about other's homeschool days too! Thanks for sharing. I have to write about mine for an article in our homeschool group newsletter, so when I do, I'll come back and copy it here!
~Becky
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4:30 I get up and feed James. This is an oasis of time together for us. I trace his eyes and nose as he peeks out of the covers, and I can see him smiling at me while he eats. Before long he's back in his bed and I'm back to sleep.
6:30 Up and get ready, start laundry piled from Saturday, make the breakfast on the menu and start the kids on their morning routines when they get up at 7. This morning we look up stalactites and stalagmites and the Greek alphabet in a couple of dictionaries for Anthony as breakfast trickles to an end.
8:30 Someone is playing the piano, followed by 2 other someones. I stop and play some of the songs with them, working rough patches, and we practice reading the lyrics and singing the songs together.
9:00 Piano playing continues as we start seat work. Today we ditch the phonics program for the boys so they can write thank you notes. Maria does a little penmanship practice--phonograms to help her reading skills.
Thomas and Anthony do 2 pages of Math U See in about 2 minutes and dash out onto the screened porch to color pictures on cardboard with Cecilia and Charles.
While I fed James on the couch, the older 3 take turns reciting their poems and learning a few new lines.
Then they all sit down on the couch while I read 9 Fruits Alive that Nina recommended  (we discover Goodness can mean doing your morning routine without being asked so everyone gets to put an apple on the tree on the wall!). We memorize 2 questions from Faith and Life 2 and practice our Act of Faith. 11:30 and "school" is done. Thomas composes his first poem and asks me to write it down for him. Along the way, in the cracks between subjects, I quiz the boys on state capitals.
Charles and Cecilia play well this morning, maybe because they are coloring Cecilia and the Little Tikes table with markers. Thomas volunteers to clean the table for another apple to put on the tree, and the others are disappointed that they can't do it too.
1-4pm Everyone naps today except Thomas (Anthony and Maria read for 1/2 hour first), so we proof his poem a little, and he asks for copies to send to family members. He addresses 3 envelopes. I do some things on the computer, work on dinner, feed the baby, read, and launch a second attack on the laundry. Anthony shows up and helps make the french bread. Cecilia helps with the sauce.
4pm-7pm After a half hour video, everyone goes out to play. The boys teach a mom at the park her state capitals. Bill is home so we play Red Rover as a family after the other kids go home. When I go in to finish dinner, Maria comes and listens to a Glory Story and does some hand sewing.
8pm The littles are in bed, Maria reads James and me a bedtime story. The older 3 take turns playing chess with Bill, and Thomas reminds me that the poem we heard about stalactites and stalagmites was right; they are "formed in time by dripping carbonate of lime." These three are in bed by 8:30.
It's hard for me to seperate the school day out of all of that. Everything I had on the lesson plan was done or an adequate substitute found its way in plus extra. We aren't on any big rabbit trails right now, and I'm not going to plan any for a while. The one thing I will apologize for is that this is only a description of today which was a very good day. To be truthful, I should really give a picture of a bad day too, with the fighting and yelling. I think school still happens just as much on those days, though, just not as beautifully.
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Thomas and Anthony (10), Maria (8), Charles (6), Cecilia (5), James (3), and Joseph (1)
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This may be long, so brace yourself.
This is what I have planned for this week. For my 7 yr. old, we will do math(RS) daily as well as Classical Writing(she is doing Princess and the Pea this week) copywork and Spanish( this is informal with colouring pages, games and songs) The rest is divided into days.
Mon.--poetry(Walter de la Mare,) and history(SOTW 2 &Our Island Story)
Tues-- composer study (Strauss--I found a video from the library that we are watching) and The Wonder Book by Hawthorne
Wed--Picture Study(Waterhouse) and literature(Understood Betsy)
Thurs--poetry and geography(Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason. we are learning about earth's rotation so we will do some activities about this as well)
Fri--nature study and science (we're making an animal book with information from Burgess' Animal Book)
With my 5 yr. old we are just doing math(RS) daily. He isn't ready to read yet so we are just playing around with that informally. The same with handwriting. I am going to try to do FIAR and HSS with my ds to put some fun into school. This week we are going to do Apples to Oregon. I have decided that on Friday we are going to have a learning centre day based on Apples. This way my other two can be involved as well. In one room we will have a math centre. We will find circumference of an apple, make a graph of the different types of apples and which brand is more popular(we will have to do this one ahead of time to ask friends to participate) We will also do some adding and subtracting with seeds. There will be an apple tasting centre--we will taste various foods that have apple in them. We will have a cooking centre to make applesauce, a book centre to read apple books and a science centre to learn about the parts of an apple and how it grows.
With my 3 yr. old, we will be playing color games, dominoes, Bingo and counting games that all have to do with Autumn. This will be done whenever I have time.
Also in there we do tea time in the afternoon, 4 times a week. I think this just about covers it. It looks like alot but my dd's subjects only take 15--20 min. so we can fit quite a bit into a day.
Blessings,
Julia
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OK, this is pretty typical for most of our days when we're not scheduled to do something outside the home.
Normally, I wake up around 7am...this is usually because of some noisy truck in the cul-de-sac. With a home being built two doors down, there's no shortage of noisy equipment at 7am! The kids are usually up shortly after, usually by 8 for the big kids, and the latest sleeper (he's 3) is usually up by 9. From the time I get up until about 9am is mommy time on the computer, and involves drinking coffee, checking my mail, visiting this forum, and considering what we will do for school that day. The kids usually watch TV for an hour and then play some games. I also feed the kids during this time, so it's not strictly mommy time, I guess.
After that, I take my shower and encourage the kids to get dressed and ready for the day. Somewhere between 9:30 and 10, I'm ready to start school. The oldest two are the ones I actively teach, while the next in line does her work independently. Right now they are reviewing math skills with the book "Arithmetic the Easy Way" (Barron's) which is absolutely awesome. The pretest idea is great for my math sharp ds (10) who doesn't have the patience for getting through the Saxon lessons. It's also great for my math-phobic dd (12) as it shows her that she actually CAN do math with very few mistakes. She's been quite pleased to test out of the units.
Then we work on a Latin lesson and review English grammar that is related to the lesson. Instead of having them complete the exercises in a workbook, I write down what I want them to copy for Latin on the white board and we go over it together once they have completed copying. What a brilliant idea!
The oldest two take a break while I review DD's (7) math worksheet and look over her copywork from the Memoria Press Copybook. Then I listen to her read a story from one of the Little Angel readers. After that, we all hit the couch for a read aloud. Right now it's "Beorn the Proud" and before each reading we review via narration. Also, during the reading, we refer to the map on the wall to talk about the countries that are mentioned (Denmark, Ireland, Sweden so far).
In the midst of all this are the 5yo, 3yo, and 2yo. The 5yo, while technically in his K year, does very little work on paper. We will grab a snippet of time here or there to do a phonics lesson, but he is not likeing the 100 Easy Lessons book, just like the other two before him. So, we'll probably be switching to the Little Angel readers soon, and hopefully we'll get working with some Montessori stuff I have here. I also just ordered the Handwriting Without Tears wooden pieces and workbooks for K and cursive, since the K-er wants to learn to write and my 10yods has atrocious handwriting.
Thus, handwriting might become a main focus for the next several weeks around here. I'd like to get together to Montessori works for fine motor skills, such as transferring with tweezers, lacing, etc. that the three little ones can keep busy with. It's really just a matter of getting the materials together in one place, finding a good time to present them to teach child, and then let them know that it can be considered "school" if they want. 
But back to our day...
After our required subjects of math, latin, and history, (btw, religion is just a normal part of our day and not broken into a "subject") the rest of the day is free for whatever. That might mean going out to explore the woods, it might mean working on a notebook page (which we haven't done in a while), or it might mean video games. It really depends on the day.
I always make grand, highly structured plans where we will do all this stuff, but then life usually intrudes. Sometimes it is the birth of a baby, or moving to a new house. This year, a week after starting school, I miscarried (16 weeks)...so we were in crisis mode for a while...which was really unschooling with a math worksheet. I already had to re-evaluate things and re-assess the goals I wanted the kids to achieve, so we're now into this very relaxed approach. But being thrown into this crisis has been good, since it has made me see the things that really matter the most to us.
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