Monday, February 10, 2014

A Week in the Life: Monday

I think it will be a typical week, so I'm going to record what a typical week of school looks like in our home.  Here's Monday:

7:50:  We get in the car and head to Classical Conversations.  After opening ceremonies in which our whole group hears a couple of family presentations, practices part of our history timeline, practices saying a portion of Ephesians 6 and says pledges to the flag and the Bible, the kids go to our respective classes.

In class, they

  1. are introduced to memory work in seven different subjects:  history, science, math, geography, Latin, English grammar and history timeline;
  2. hear background on Carl Linnaeus and draw a flower in a botanical style;
  3. do a science experiment with water and soda bottles that demonstrates the relationship between vibration, frequency and pitch;
  4. give an individual presentation and listen to all the other members of the class give presentations;
  5. exchange Valentines;
  6. and review previous weeks' memory work.
After lunch and recess with the group we head home around 1:00.

2:30:  After taking an hour break to unwind, the kids listen to me read the second half of "The Master Maid" from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book and the second chapter of the book of Esther.  

They then take turns practicing their violins.

Finally, each of the kids does a math lesson with me.  My son does a lesson on division with remainders and my daughter does a lesson on rules in adding even/odd number combinations.

We finish at 4:15 and the kids head outside to play with their neighborhood friends.

That's a typical Monday.

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