A Not So Rigid Schedule

For some reason wherever I go on the internet in regards to homeschooling, parents always ask "What is your schedule?" So here is a quick rundown of the daily schedule for our First Grader. My 4 yo DD is doing PK which I intermix with helping my first grade DD. Our schedule is by no means set in stone. My daughter chooses pretty much what order she wants to do each subject. I'm not including times because of the great variences. I quickly found out that it just frustrates me too much when we are off of schedule from interruptions or things taking longer than scheduled. But this is a rough idea of how it usually ends up going. School is completed shortly after lunch and the rest of the afternoon is spent playing outside, chores and getting ready for dinner.

--Monday--

* AM Chores/Breakfast
* Math (CIMT-MEP Year 2)(Daily)
* Literature Reading (Currently she's reading a chapter a day of "Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton Burgess)
* Language Arts-
Word Mastery (Mon/Wed/Fri)
Journal Entry (Daily)
Copywork (Daily)
* Poetry - A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
* History - Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (Often includes extra worksheets/mini books/lapbooks to supplement)
*Bible - Leading Little Ones to God
Scripture Memory
*Personal Development - Laying Down Rails: Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook


--Tuesday--

* AM Chores/Breakfast
* Math (CIMT-MEP Year 2)(Daily)
* Literature Reading (Currently she's reading a chapter a day of "Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton Burgess)
* Language Arts-
McGuffey's 2nd Reader (Tues/Thurs)
Journal Entry (Daily)
Copywork (Daily)
* Picture Study - Just finished 6 weeks of John James Audubon, now we started Monet
* Science - Exploring God's Creation With Astronomy
Astronomy Notebook
*Bible - Leading Little Ones to God
Scripture Memory


--Wednesday--

* AM Chores/Breakfast
* Math (CIMT-MEP Year 2)(Daily)
* Literature Reading (Currently she's reading a chapter a day of "Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton Burgess)
* Language Arts-
Word Mastery (Mon/Wed/Fri)
Journal Entry (Daily)
Copywork (Daily)
* Nature Study
* History - Stories of American Life and Adventure (Often includes extra worksheets/mini books/lapbooks to supplement)
*Bible - Leading Little Ones to God
Scripture Memory
*Handicraft/Life Skills


--Thursday--

* AM Chores/Breakfast
* Math (CIMT-MEP Year 2)(Daily)
* Literature Reading (Currently she's reading a chapter a day of "Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton Burgess)
* Language Arts-
McGuffey's 2nd Reader (Tues/Thurs)
Journal Entry (Daily)
Copywork (Daily)
* Music Study - Just finished 6 week study of Bach, Now on to Mozart
* Science - Exploring God's Creation With Astronomy
Astronomy Notebook
*Bible - Leading Little Ones to God
Scripture Memory


--Friday--

* AM Chores/Breakfast
* Math (CIMT-MEP Year 2)(Daily)
* Literature Reading (Currently she's reading a chapter a day of "Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton Burgess)
* Language Arts-
Word Mastery (Mon/Wed/Fri)
Journal Entry (Daily)
Copywork (Daily)
* Drawing - Draw Write Now and other books/internet resources
* Social Studies/Geography - Seven Little Sisters Who Lived on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air (Often includes extra worksheets/mini books/lapbooks to supplement)
*Bible - Leading Little Ones to God
Scripture Memory
*Handicraft/Life Skills


We homeschool year round but do cut back during the summer, mainly focusing on the basics and utilizing more lapbooks and unit studies.


Our curriculum and schedule comes mainly from a mix of 2 sites:

Old Fashioned Education and Simply Charlotte Mason

2nd Official Year of Homeschooling

My oldest daughter is 6 and has just started her first grade year of homeschooling. We have chosen to use a classic literature/Charlotte Mason approach for the past 2 years.

There are a couple of wonderful websites for Free Homeschooling Curriculum that I wanted to share with you:

http://oldfashionededucation.com
http://simplycharlottemason.com
http://amblesideonline.org

These websites have been a God send to me. Not only are they free online curriculums for grades k-12 but they are of excellent quality.