What is in our Homeschool?

Well, we went to the Texas Homeschool Conference on the 16th and decided to to Konos! We have already started and we are very excited about this literature based hands on unit study. Anyway, here is an overview of our homeschool this year....

Konos in a Box: Obedience -Language Arts, Reading,Writing, Science, History, Bible
Math:Horizons Math
Handwriting: Italics by Getty Dubay
Reading: Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading & Steck Vaughn Phonics K & C
Read Alouds: Ambleside OnlineMusic: Recorder
Spanish: Phrase a day
Music: Recorder

As I do Konos I am starting to understand how and why it works so well. Everything revolves around the current theme for instance we are learning about light & authority and I was amazed to see how our language arts tied in so wonderfully to our study. We are studying kinds of sentences and specifically imperative sentences have come alive for the kids. They love to get up and do and in fact the other day Parker (Kindergarten) said to Wayne on their way out the chicken coop we need to get our incandescent light! The literature is top notch and I already owned much of it we are overall very happy with unit study so far but we will keep you updated.

We start school around 8:45 and cover the 3 R's + and break for lunch at about 11:30 and then finish up our Konos & have music practice after lunch. Here is a 'copy & paste of our posted schedule:

Our Daily Schedule

(PK, K & 4th)

6:00 Wake up
6:00-7:00 Bible Study & Start Breakfast & laundry
7:00 Wake up kids
7:10-8:10 Chores
8:10-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Clean up and mini pooper (this is a mini cleaning session not a trip to the bathroom) & mom defrosts dinenr, changes over laundry & dishes)
8:45 School Starts
11:30 Lunch
12:00-12:15 cleaning pooper (this is a mini cleaning session not a trip to the bathroom) & mom changes over laundry & dishes)
12:15-1:00 Finish School
1:00-5:00 Free play (Play with kids/housework)
5:00 Super duper cleaning pooper
5:10 dinner underway
6:00 Dinner time & Family Worship
6:45-7:00 Clean up
7:00 Bath Time
7:30-8:30 Daddy Reading Time
8:30 Kids bedtime

10:00 Mom's bed time aka ... Mom falls down near bed...Dad drags

mom into bed and pours hot chocolate down her throat!

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Ephesians 5:15-17

I have to run a schedule or I would not get anything done. We are recalling trying to get the most out of every day.

FYI my digital camera died so there won't be many pictures for a while!

RH Academy!

SUPER DUPER CLEANING POOPER

Once a week we have a SUPER DUPER CLEANING POOPER. I think I've mentioned before that training my girls (Titus 2:5 be busy at home, to be kind,) to be suitable helpers is tops on my list of things to do.

Genesis 12:2 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

Wayne likes house to be neat and inviting, he's such a sweetie. So we do Flylady around these parts and have modified it to suit us. So once a week usually on a Thursday (the day after Hope Group) we turn on the jams (93.3 FM) and get down and get holy. The girls clean baseboards, window sills, pledge things, sort all the laundry in the house, organize things (if its their room), sort socks, wash walls, and cabinet fronts......oh how they they multiply the work completed! We get a lot done while we laugh, sing, dance and sometimes discipline. Also, there is much less squabbling because they are becoming used to working with each other.

They little one is learning to take wise counsel from each other and to give it to each other! (Even if it's just "Parker, pinks go in the pink and red pile" or "Peyton work or you're gonna get the vinegar!").

Proverbs 10:26As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him.

So hopefully, when they are older they will not be scoffers (all kinds of bad thing happen to scoffers like getting sucked into cracks and having the earth closed on your head...not good, no not good at all), but able to identify, accept & give wise counsel (even to/from their peers)!

Proverbs 19:20Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise.

Now I am not going to lie and say the training process was easy but now that we are on the up slide. I can see that it was well worth it! I hope this encourages everyone to get those kids cleaning, advising & loving one another! Ohh..I almost left out the best part......after we finish the kids get to eat what ever snack they want as long as it has little to no nutritional value...they usually pick the house favorite 'Little Debbie's'! But today we are going to make Cinnamon Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

Psalm 34:8Taste and see that the LORD is good...