Well, despite what other friends may do...I actually had our schedule all done (at 10 pm the night before-it resembled a Boot Camp schedule!) and most of the books organized and ready on the shelf. We had prayed about school, hubby and I, and had a plan to start the day off right with the B-I-B-L-E! BIBLE! Where to begin...but...of course...Proverbs!
So, dear hubby did his devotions in Proverbs for the day and wrote out some notes and discussion points for us! Yeah!
I was ready. I was up early (at least earlier than the kids and in time to kiss hubby goddbye before he left for work!)I had some laundry washing and was outside basking int eh beauty of GOd's creation and the wonderous coolness ofthe morning, a mild 67 degrees! FOr a FL summer-that is a wonderous thing! I had dreams that autumn would be early this year. Instead, I jsut realized that no, I am usually enver out that early and that could be quite normal for this tme of year-I wouldn't know the difference. Then the first child woke up. We spent a few minutes aloe together until....
...the appointed time for breakfast, 8:00, crept up on us, only one child was awake. I sent the one child to wake her older sister at about 7:52. I did not hear happy morning sounds, but rather grumblings and groanings that it was NOT 8:00 yet. We had a little talk about getting up BEFORE the alloted time to allow a few minutes of personal time before we were to begin breakfast.
Well, the grumblings and groanings persisted for the older of the two and were quickly spreading to the rest of the ranks.
8:30! Aha! The awaited time of Bible study!!!! I read Provebs 1:1-9 after opening in prayer. As we got into the discussion questions, one by one the children started to eagerly run to get THEIR Bibles! All four of them! PTL! Even our son who is a struggling reader was doing his best to read the words that he could! We had some good discussion and I praise God for the Power of His Word (tear, tear sniff sniff!) to transform grumbly hearts and turn it towards Him!
Bible Study done! Off they went! THe older two went off to do chores and to help the youngest do her chores (what they can get out of a three-year-old anyway.) And so begins the school day with three kids, and one wanna be school kid.
I started doing the Sonlight History section with Bekah. It started with Martin Luther. Hmmm. I like Martin Luther as well as the next protestant, but I'm not quite sure they realized that this was a FIVE year old! I was losing her fast! So, we got out her Bible and we read the Creation account. Much more interesting for a five-year-old.
And other thant he read -aloud we'll do later, The Box Car Children, that was it. I didn't have the poems book (or want it) and I am not too into Mother Goose. So that was it for our History section. She was not done however and was quite eager to get to her reading stuff. So we brought out Explode the Code and away she went. She did well with her handwriting and beginning letter sounds.
Now we are on break time. It is 10:30...break over! Now for History for the older two. We are still working on last year's History. We didn't finish it, primarily because we did some extra stuff on the side. We did a month and a half of US History in preparation for our trip to Washington DC. So, that is why we are only half way through the History section from last year. I plan to skip a bunch as the History for next year (this year!) goes back a bit and covers some of this again, in a different way.
One thing I have a hard time doing is fitting in the extra stuff. I have lots of rsources to go along with what we are doing so I dont' know from time to time whether I should skip some stuff to add the extra or if should do everything and add the extra on top?
Well, I suppose that would depnd on how tought the week was, how many dr. appts we had (today we have three appts, tomorrow an early dentist and then another dentist on Wed!) Not exactly a good week to start school, but when is? :o)
Well, that's all for now. If I have time to write how the rest of the day went, I will.
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