Typical Day

      So every week I do a quick wrap  up and show some pictures of what we did but I thought I would do a very nice post on what a typical day is in the school room.


The first thing we do is what we call our morning work. This is stuff that George has learning to work through primarily on his own. He will come to me for little assistance in reading or if he has a question. To get through all of this takes him about 30mins to 45mins. Depending on the day. On Wednesdays we switch things up and instead of reading a "bob" book we make our own story and he copy's that. You will see more about that further down the post.



We always start the morning off using our calendar math journal. Here George does some math based off the date and then weather. He does this all on his own. I just assist in reading the questions to him.

After that we move onto our correct the sentence daily journal.  On this I read him the sentence and together we find the problems and I write in my read pen the corrections and then he takes the journal to his desk and writes the sentence corrected.

Following that we move to what is called my first writing prompts journal. This journal has the begging of a sentence laid out for  him so all he has to do is fill it out with the ended and then draw a picture that corresponds with it. George doesn't enjoy coloring very much so I don't worry about having him color.

After this on Wednesdays we do our poetry journal. We don't do this everyday just on Wednesdays. This is something I read to him and then their is a simple question he has to answer and write his response to, It's a nice way to get them exposed to poetry.

Following this we move to the daunting task on Wednesdays which is when we create our own story, I say this because George HATES writing. He has expressed this many times. To create the story we use a build a story flipbook. So he picks the character, setting, and conclusion.  He enjoys picking them out and creating a story. I have to sometimes steer him in a direction to keep the story following the outline he picks but the more we do it the better hes getting. I then write the story on our big white board and he cops it in his draw and write journal. That's the part that can take a lot of time in the mornings.

After just working with George on the story here is what he came up with today "The little boy was turning one. The dog got into the fridge and ate the cake. The mom caught the dog. The neighbor kept the little boy and gave cake ingredients so the mom could bake a new cake. Then the boy had a birthday party."    Now the real battle is George writing the story.


This will end what we usually call morning work. We will take a break and do lunch and some down time and then come back and do math, language arts, spelling, reading, history and read our chapter book.   We are currently on a rotating plan with history and science we do them on alternating days and today happens to be a history day.


Usually in math he does two pages a day but if George really grasps a topic we will alter the amount he does. This week he is skip counting but 10s which comes easy so we are only doing one page a day and then the "test" page on Friday.

 Following that we move onto language arts. Their are several parts we skip in the book because we cover them in our spelling and reading programs and I think it would be to much for him to use to different programs going at two different paces to try and keep up with. So we use this primarily for the grammar.

 Moving forward  we go to spelling. We do almost all of our spelling on our magentic dry erase board. Once a week we spell on paper. Today happens to be that day. We are working on the short e sound.  He does 14 words a week and usually always spells them all correct.

After spelling we go to reading. Reading is another subject we usually do on the magnetic dry erase board. Sometimes we use the flash cards, sometimes we use pages from the activity book, sometimes we read from the readers that come with the program and sometimes like today we read from the fluency pages. I usually split this task up into 2 days just because its a task that he generally does not enjoy. Its a lot of random words and no fun.  He did rather well today after being reminded of the sound the short e makes.

Once this was done we moved onto history. This year for history we are traveling the world with "Sam and Sophia" We are in the state Iowa. We learned about their ice cream festival he related this to the grape jamboree festival we go to.  I found this rather boring so I did not get a picture. I apologize.






We ended the day with continuing our story "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" We just finished chapter 3. George is very into this book. I read him a chapter everyday. On Fridays we will answer a few questions about the book and then once we finish it we will do a book report about it all. We will continue with reading chapter books the rest of the year. He does get frustrated when we stop. He wants me to keep going. Looks like we may have a book lover on our hands.

So that's a typical day in out homeschool room. George loves it and so do I. We spent about 2 hours and 45mins today and the only reason it took so long today was because of him having to write his story in his journal. That's def his least favorite task of the whole week.