I’ve seen a few homeschool weekly reports on various blogs; they are all different. Some moms post pictures of worksheets and projects. Some moms just list what lessons they did during the week. I’m not exactly set on how I will share our weeks, but it may be a combination of lots of things.
This week saw major changes in our days. Karl just finished reading Voddie Baucham’s Family-Driven Faith. As a result, he has decided to change what we do for family worship. This has meant that we all rise around 6 am for catechism instruction. Needless to say, I have had no problems getting Abbey to nap in the afternoons this week. Karl reads the question and answer, reads the scriptures, chooses a song or two for us to sing, we pray for one another, then the kids work on copying the question and answer while I make the oatmeal. I have put together some notebooks for them to use for copying and memorization. Then, in the evenings, we review and Karl reads from the Bible. We are trying to read it all the way through. We are in Deuteronomy now.
As a result of everyone getting up earlier, we start school earlier, which means we finish earlier, which means that I have to find more stuff for us to do. We’ve done more with play-dough and shaving cream this week than usual. I’m not complaining, though. It has been my prayer for many years that Karl be more active in leading us this way. I am thankful for having to make these adjustments.
In the past, I would just let the kids sleep until their bodies told them to wake up. It has been very interesting to Karl and me to see which of our children are morning persons and which definitely are not morning persons.
Karl has even taken to singing in a loud booming voice, “Rise and shine for the light has come,” as he walks down the hallway just like his dad did for him when he was a boy. The kids hate it, and it’s hilarious!
We are still reading about Vikings. The major question of the week: If Greenland is covered with ice and snow, why is it called Greenland? That Leif fella wasn’t exactly honest with his kinsmen.
Math means multiplication this year. I highly recommend a little game called Times Attack. My kids love it! I haven’t had to beg once for them to practice their math facts. And Noah, though he is only 5 and I am not requiring him to learn his times tables, has learned almost all of the x 2 facts just by cheering on his big brother.
The other subjects (spelling, grammar, reading, etc.) are pretty straight forward.
My kids love learning Latin. Actually, they seem to enjoy anything they have to chant to memorize. They think it’s pretty cool that so many of the words we use today came from Latin words.
Those are probably the most interesting things to report for this week. I’ll try to remember to pull out my camera next week to show you everyone in action. Just not at 6 AM.
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10 responses to “Weekly Report, I”
That is SO great that Karl is doing that! I wish more dads would take the time to teach their kids catechism and other bible knowledge. My hubby does it too, and I am so grateful for it. But we don’t do it at 6:00. I think I might not be the happiest momma bear then…..I’m not really a morning person….:-)
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Sean was just telling me about Family-Driven Faith. Someone from our church recommended it to him and is going to let him borrow a copy.Is Times Attack a game you buy or make up? Sounds more fun than drilling the multiplication table. Although going out for ice cream when someone can fill out the whole thing in under a specified time does help!
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Times Attack is a computer game. I downloaded it, but at this year’s homeschool convention I saw it in a box. I gave it a try because so many moms on the WTM message board recommended it for multiplication fun.Here is the link: BigBrains
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Thanks!
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I am really looking forward to that time when my kids can interact in our family devotions. They are learning little songs and we are working on scripture memory, but oh for the day when they desire to learn more and more! A.
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I so enjoyed reading about your school week. We do catechism too. We used Training Hearts Teaching Minds by Starr Meade. I haven’t used it for copywork but why not? It helps with the memory.I so enjoy our family devo’s but they aren’t at 6am….more like 8am. Hands down to your hubby!
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Mrs. M.–We thought that the fact that we were having family worship was enough, regardless of who was leading it. Baucham really emphasizes the father’s responsibility to be the leader, and the scripture he shares in the book really spoke to Karl. Since he goes to work at 7 we have to do it early. However, when he was out of town for part of the week, I waited until 7! 😉
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That’s awesome. My dh works from home now, so it is much easier on use time wise. He just has to walk across the house to his office at 9am. It is so encouraging when men lead their families regardless of the time :o) I bet it feels good to get school done earlier too!
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What a blessing! That really is so awesome.So, what Latin are you using? We are using Latin’s Not So Tough. It’s been good so far…
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Kate, we are using Latin for Children. So far so good.
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