Because everybody else is doing it

If anybody actually reads this blog, then you probably know that we homeschool more-or-less year-round; you probably also know that we do not follow the traditional school year, but begin each year in January. 

And yet...

There is just something about this back-to-school season, so...

I have been buying new notebooks and pencils and markers and glue, because they are all on sale. 

I have been tweaking our routine, because, well, okay, actually, I do that all the time.

I am adding a few new things and changing a few things up. 

So, as we begin our final term in about ten days here is what an ideal week could be like:  

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
6am-730	Mama's personal time: morning tea,  prayer time & walk	Mama's personal time: morning tea,  prayer time & walk	Mama's personal time: morning tea,  prayer time & walk	Mama's personal time: morning tea,  prayer time & walk	Mama's personal time: morning tea,  prayer time & walk
730-9am	Mama: breakfast & daily chores Take Sgt. Elf to babysitting job Kids: morning things	Mama: breakfast & daily chores Kids: morning things	Mama: breakfast & daily chores Take Sgt. Elf to babysitting job Kids: morning things	Mama: breakfast & daily chores Take Frap to babysitting job Kids: morning things	Mama: breakfast & daily chores Kids: morning things
9am-1030	Monday Morning Meeting (to help us get on track after the weekend craziness) Memorywork Milne (read aloud)	O Special One goes to Classical Conversations Possible informal co-op with 2 other families for younger ones	Recitations: prayer, catechism, scripture memory, poem, math facts, phonics drill Read Aloud: Beatrix Potter seatwork & tutoring	Recitations: prayer, catechism, scripture memory, poem, math facts, phonics drill Read Aloud:    Just So Stories seatwork & tutoring	Recitations: prayer, catechism, scripture memory, poem, math facts, phonics drill Read Aloud:    Tales from Shakespeare seatwork & tutoring
1030-noon	Math Game & Mapwork	Read Aloud: history chores	Read Aloud: history chores	Read Aloud: history chores	Read Aloud:   history chores
noon-130	lunch Melodies & Masterpieces(art)	lunch Read  Aloud: literature drawing or handicraft during reading Boys: gymnastics	lunch Read  Aloud: literature drawing or handicraft during reading Girls: dance	lunch Read  Aloud: literature drawing or handicraft during reading	lunch Read  Aloud: literature drawing or handicraft during reading
130-3pm	Quiet Time: silent readings Teatime w/person-of-the-day	Quiet Time: silent readings Teatime w/person-of-the-day	Quiet Time: silent readings Teatime w/person-of-the-day	Quiet Time: silent readings Teatime w/person-of-the-day	Quiet Time: silent readings Teatime w/person-of-the-day
3pm-430	snack Monday's Marvelous Make-it Time kids: chores	snack Read aloud or Project or Productive Time kids: chores	snack Read aloud or Project or Productive Time kids: chores	snack Read aloud or Project or Productive Time kids: chores	snack Friday Freewrite & Friday Funstuff kids: chores
430-6pm	Productive Time for kids Mama: dinner prep	Productive Time for kids Mama: dinner prep	Productive Time for kids Mama: dinner prep	Productive Time for kids Mama: dinner prep	Productive Time for kids Mama: dinner prep
6pm	supper & clean-up	supper & clean-up	supper & clean-up	supper & clean-up	supper & clean-up
	evening		Sgt. Elf: drum lesson
	activities		Sgt. Elf & J~man: puppets	Frap: babysitting job

At least...

 until I change it