Here is where I am stumped. I don't know our schedule, how to describe our day in our life or even what time it is (well I guess I can look in the corner of the 'puter to see that) and I really cannot say why. For some reason, things have been nutty and so we have been 'schooling' in the 'winging it' mode. That is ok though. Somehow we managed to get just about everything I wanted him to cover handled. I think one big factor is that we are only schooling one kid now so being super organized is not quite as necessary as when I had 2-4 kids underfoot.
Now that the boy is in Jr High, I do have to start reining it in a bit. Since we will be going thru Sonlight 5 (Eastern Cultures) I already have a pre-made schedule via the teacher's guide. So the history, Bible, some geography (I say that because I am covering world geo with him this year as an entire course to go along with this) and lots of reading are covered. Math is a no-brainer. We just work thru each lesson and if he needs to speed it up or slow it down then we do just that. I will need to devise a general layout for the world geo, artist study and his language studies. Since we just finished school in early July and are back into the baseball season-I simply haven't thought much past that.
Heck, I haven't even ordered the stuff I need for the year. It's just been that way lately. But what I can share is that we don't do every subject every day. Instead we break it up to a few times per week and let it be.
Usually we stick to this basic set-up :
W and F: math, history and reading skills/LLATL and any scraggler type of activities
Every other Thurs. is my shopping day so I simply delete things or give him only 'you can do this without me' activities because I am gone all day.
I have been using Mondays as an office day-to figure out what I have going on, to do my grocery couponing/planning and errands. I may have to change that or beef up a couple days since we're doing a more rigorous geography study and Sonlight (which is a beefy program) but honestly-I hate to lose that day. If I do, then I lose a weekend day and I am not going back down that road. I was getting too burned out because I wasn't stepping away from the teacher mode. I will adapt. We always do and I find a way to preserve my office day and still get all the schooling in.
And there is our anti-schedule type of life. No planner books, no pledge, no timed seat work, no exact order or particular way to do each day-we take it as we feel it'll work that week and somehow we get along nicely. For now. But we'll see.....
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