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Martha
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Interested to know what kind of days you ladies have. How you plan them, if you plan them, how much is "boxed", text, or mommy created??
I use several different materials. (Seton, CHC, SotW, HWT, Rosetta Stone Spanish, MCP math, + + +.) We have a 4 day school week, with the days divided into: morning session, nap session, and afternoon session, with breaks between each session.
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Martha,
A "regular" day at our house goes like this:
We try to get started by no later then 8:30. While I read the chapter of the day from one of our Narnia books (This year I am doing FUFI unit study on Narnia with the 4th and 8th grader), the younger ones do their math. After reading the chapter they sit at the kitchen table and do their English and Vocab while I do phonics with the younger ones. Then we pull out our FUFI unit study and do the work for the day which corresponds to the chapter I read to them that morning.
Lunch Time!!
After lunch I finish working with the little ones...reading and handwriting while the older ones do their math.
My senior works mostly independently using the Mother of Divine Grace program. We will discuss what she is reading and occasionally she needs some help with her math.
Unit studies have been the closest that I have come to having a CM type of curriculum. MODG meshes nicely with many of the CM ideas as well. My IDEAL would be to read, read, read, and make the curriculum up myself to go along with what we have been reading. If I could ever relax and really let go...I would try to get Math done first thing in the morning, then some grammar, then we would all be off on a grand learning adventure with living books......maybe one day.
But for now unit studies are the closest that I can get.
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Laura
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Welcome Martha!
This year I am going to follow the Catholic Heritage curriculum and take Wednesdays off. We are planning to attend Mass that day and hopefully one other. My dh has a very big truck and needless to say, he isn't going to be driving it very much so he will have our mini-van up to 3 days a week.
With a 1 yr old I don't know how this year will go. Most years (since we've adopted many CM type lessons)we try to get math done first. Some days it's with a text and some days it's a math activity. Then we get dictation done for 1 child (they each have a day of dictation, a day of recopying and a day of editing but I don't do everyone's dication the same day) and the one that has an internet lesson that day gets it done. If I have to do a lot of work with one child, I'll let another do a webquest or similar lesson online. Then everyone reads religion, narrates, does silent reading etc. We have a long  lunch break. We do Tuesday teatime with music and art study or poetry. Nature study, memorization, science, lapbooks, etc. get done for a little while in the afternoon but I'll be honest: my kids play together and spend a *lot* of afternoons running around outside. My 10th grader works independently and we discuss her subjects in the afternoon and evenings.
This thread has the advice to pray often and that is really the best advice for any kind of day 
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We're starting off slowly this year.
Usually we start about 9 am after breakfast and chores. I work with the 9 and 12yo in the morning and move to the high schoolers after lunch. I guess we don't spend a whole lot of time on formal lessons compared to some families. I get awfully dragged out by mid-afternoon and usually am glad to rest a bit with the toddler and that's also when I read to the littlies and do a little pre-academics or something of the sort with the delayed 6yo.
My 12yo likes to get his "seatwork" out of the way so he can read and do more open-ended things. While my 9yo prefers to have read-alouds first and then do math and the like.
My highschoolers' time is individual, and we call it an "overview". I focus on the subjects where they need help, and use that time to talk, read to them and help them plan and set goals.
So it goes like this
7-9 breakfast, personal and house chores
9-12 work with 9 and 12yo in turns
noon work with 17yo
1-2 lunch and work on house a bit, laundry etc.
2-3:30 time with littlies, rest
3:30 overview with 15yo
4 pm start dinner (we eat early because of 12yo's sports practice)
5 pm eat and clean up together
6-10 family time, bedtime routine, Rosary, time with husband, personal reading
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We started our school year yesterday, so are still easing in. This is the plan:
8-9 Breakfast; finish anything undone (making beds, dressing(!) and so on); music (both formal practice and playing for fun)
9-11 Prayers; schoolwork (religion, history, English, literature, maths (Tuesday and Thursday) )
11-12.30 Free time (while I catch up on household stuff) or fun activities
12.30 Lunch
1-1.30 Independent reading
1.30-3 School work (geography, science, art, French, Latin, maths (Monday / Wednesday / Friday) )
3-6.30 Computer time; outside activities; make dinner
6.30 Dinner
We take some afternoons off because of homeschool group activities.
We use texts for maths, grammar, French, Latin, art and some religion (Faith and Life, and Memoria Press Christian studies used loosely). For everything else we use living books.
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