I’m often asked about my
schedule, or what my day or week looks like.
Well, I thought I’d give you a snapshot of a week in our
homeschool. I would imagine that we
aren’t all that unique in that no two weeks are alike. We have lots of things that cause our
homeschooling schedule to be shaken up.
This past week, we took a rare family overnight trip. For the first time in over 18 months, and the
first successful time ever – we took all seven of us and stayed overnight at a
lodge (not with family) and had a mini vacation! We went to a winter rendezvous at Fort de
Chartes in southern IL. Our history
lesson that day was seeing all the folks dressed in period costume (some prefer
to say period dress), reading the plaques and posters in the museum, talking to
the people we met about the French and Indian war, etc. One lady visited with us for about half an
hour and told us all about the correct dress for that period. She even gave us some great websites to use
for sewing patterns so we could make our own!
She told us she was a teacher for many years, and she has the gift of
teaching! She made it so interesting
that we wanted to run home and get started!
They have a bigger rendezvous in June each year, and we are making plans
to go back for it, and we are going to get our dresses made for the
occasion! Home Ec sewing class was
planned for us this weekend!
That was, without a doubt,
a wonderful family vacation – and we had school at the same time! I love homeschooling the Charlotte Mason way!
Daddy had the day off
Tuesday, as well, so we accomplished some much needed shopping for the new
home. Wednesday was back to the routine
of school and chores. (I say that like we’ve
actually accomplished it this year! HA!)
I guess I should say - it was back to the journey toward a good routine
for school and chores! We started our
unit study around Thanksgiving. I
recognized immediately that the study is too young for the 14 yr – old, so she
is on her own again doing her own study of the pilgrims in her history studies.
Thursday, it was off to
the library. We listened to Doug
Phillips talk on Pilgrims vs. Indians.
It’s part of Vision Forum’s Christian
Controversies in American History series.
The children and I had a great discussion about revisionist history and
what the pilgrims did in their attempt to spread the gospel to the new
world.
We like the Family Vision library
in
Friday, we ran around like crazy, and ended the day with Family
Activity Night, or FAN, as the children have dubbed it! We watched a funny movie and laughed a
lot.
That was our unusual, somewhat typical week in our home. See, homeschooling our children is about
living life, not lesson plans and math lessons.
We do those things, but they are a surprisingly small part of our
life. Most of our learning doesn’t even
take place during ‘school’! We live
together, run errands together, listen together, and work on good relationships
with each other (more challenging on some days than others!)
How about you, what does
your week look like? Are you a mom who
has a good schedule – and sticks to it?
Or are you a mom who likes to be a free spirit, and encourage the free
spirit in your children? How do you get
school done, and live a life at the same time?
We’d love to hear how it works for you!
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