Our problem with that is that, sometimes, often, we get Monday or Friday school cut off by a holiday: religious, government-mandated, or all-the-other-schools-in-town-have-today-off-so-why-don't-we. But never on Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, unless it's weather-related. So that means we have to either never schedule anything important or interesting or at least weekly on Monday or Friday (unless we want to move whatever it is to Tuesday or Thursday that week)...or try a slightly different method of scheduling. (Also there are a couple of homeschool group field trips and events that also take place on Fridays...sigh.)
For the rest of Term II, a season that has more than its share of interrupted weeks, we're falling back on a different method, one we've used before. I took the 28 scheduled school days that are left in the term, and just divided up the lessons and readings as evenly as I could. For the two Apologia modules we're doing, I used the schedule from Donna Young's Homeschool Resources. (Except that we won't be doing the experiments that require digging up worms and dirt...um, not in February.)
So we have Day 1, Day 2, and so on, each with its own work, rather than a definite plan for Mondays and Tuesdays. It may not look as neat on the wall as a weekly schedule, but at least it's laid out.
Also, we're doing some slightly different math for the rest of this term: working through old Gauss competition pages, as review and also as a kind of diagnostic tool to see what we've missed. In the third term we'll probably use Key to Geometry.
So this is the plan, more or less, for this week's school. The lessons are not in the order we're doing them, but the way I have them written down by subject. I've left off our opening-time routine: hymns, sometimes a poem, a reading from Ourselves or a Bible passage.
And a bonus for this week: something fun for teatime, Snowflake Buns or Bread Snowflakes. (You gently fold circles of bread dough and snip them with scissors, as if you were making paper snowflakes. Then bake and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Idea from Electric Bread for Kids.
Basic Bible Studies: continue study of salvation
Math page
Watership Down chapters 13, 14
Start Ivanhoe together
Copywork
English History: Short chapter on the Saxon cultural traditions such as shires
Nature study
Science: wrap up the previous module
French: start a lesson about the map of the world (continuing through the week)
Tuesday (planning to go hear a jazz trio at lunchtime)
Math page
Watership Down chapters 15, 16
Return of the King
Easy Grammar Plus page 92
Geography: Heidi's Alp, finish the chapter where they arrive in Germany
Write dictation from Geography chapter
Science Read pages 217-219, introduction and "DNA and Life"
Grammar of Poetry: review old work (only if we have time)
Wednesday:
Mr. Pipes, The Accidental Voyage: Finish chapter 10.
Math page
Watership Down chapters 17, 18
Ivanhoe
Easy Grammar Plus page 94
Architecture: finish the chapter on Norman architecture
Write in the Book of Centuries
Science: continue reading about DNA; build a model of DNA, and I hope I remembered to buy pipe cleaners for that. If I didn't, we may have to get out our old plastic dollar-store model instead.
Thursday:
Basic Bible StudiesMath page
Watership Down chapters 19, 20
Return of the King
Easy Grammar Plus page 95
English history: one chapter
Science:--continue chapter..
Music history: starting chapter on Haydn and Mozart.
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?--almost finished this book.
Friday:
Basic Bible Studies
Watership Down chapters 21, 22
Ivanhoe
Copywork
Heidi's Alp, part of chapter 6 (about Germany)
Science: see Thursday.
Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes, Lesson 7, The Battle of Chaeronea
Picture Talk.
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