I'm here by request to explain to you how our homeschooling thing works, from my point of view.
On the normal day, I drag myself out of bed at 8:30-9:00 in the morning (usually with the aid of my little bro Henry) to show up for family scriptures and prayer. After that we kiss our Dad goodbye until 5:30 tonight, and eat breakfast.
Sometimes we'll go on a walk to the park that's less than a mile away for P.E. Other times, in the summer, we'll walk down to the snow cone shack called Lucky's, which is super close to us. And sometimes we'll just walk around the block or something. We'll water the garden in the spring, summer, and early fall, and pick the fruits of our labors. This was the first year of our new garden and we got almost thirty jars of pickles! It was amazing. We also got a load of huge pumpkins.
Some of the many results of our garden this year. That's barely half the pickles we got.
Also, our Grandma getting her snow cone at Lucky's.
After the walk comes Read Aloud! Today we read six chapters of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Sometimes we will take turns reading aloud (I always have the longest!), but a lot of the time Mama does the reading, because it's fun to listen to her act out the characters. She screams and yells and whoops and hollers. It's quite entertaining, but a lot of the time it provokes laughter and the running around of little tiny persons.
Right after Read Aloud is when we'll do our chores and Practicing. We have condensed all the numerous house chores into four major chores -- Public Rooms, Bath/Laundry, Dishes, and Kitchen. I start out with Dishes, Yayah with Kitchen, Pearl with Bath/Laundry, and Henry with Public Rooms. The chores rotate every day. Today I happened to be assigned to Kitchen.
Practicing isn't nearly as complicated. All three of us girls (Me, Yayah and Pearl) take piano lessons from an amazing teacher about a 10 minute's drive from us, so we all have piano practice to do, which we take in turns. We're all getting pretty good! For Henry's practice, he reads to The Mama. He's getting really good!
My sisters are always complaining that I take too long on the piano. I'm here to say, it's not my fault that I have so many songs to practice! What's wrong with writing my own stuff and loving music? Writing music takes time! Ugg!
Math. Grr. Algebra, Pre-Algebra, Negative Numbers, Geometry, grr. Great grinding of teeth. It's not that bad, actually. It's just a pain. We'll have separate times to do it, and we'll usually do it with Mama -- we call it one on one time, or LOL, because that's what it looks like when you write it like this: 1O1. And lately we've taken to an idea that Yayah invented -- the MATH BATH, a way to memorize your multiplication tables. All you have to do is hop in the tub and practice. Hot water works miracles.
Lately, we've been studying birds, so after Math we'll sometimes watch what we call the Bird Show. It's actually a bird documentary called "The Life Of Birds" by David Attenborough. And we're also working on Bird Reports to earn another trip to Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake. I did mine on ravens. They're so cool! I think Yayah did hers on mockingbirds, and I don't know what Pearl did. If we have all of the reports turned in by Tuesday next week, we can feed the Conures at Tracy Aviary! I'm so excited!
The school day normally comes to a close after this. This was the normal Homeschool day! Hooray. Things are different when we earn a party or go on a field trip. Last week we finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so we stuffed ourselves silly with marshmallows and chocolate and watched both the new and the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movies. That's awesome.
After the school day is over, we're allowed nearly free reign on the electronics. Me, personally, I'll check FanFiction.net, my gmail, look up songs on Youtube, watch some of my current obsession (FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST!!!), and work on my novel and the numerous other side stories I'm writing. Sometimes I'll play Minecraft, too. But that's just me.
An example of Henry using his electronic time to play Animal Jam.
It's dinnertime when Dadguy comes home. We'll eat, Dadguy will catch up with us, and then he'll run off to his PS4 to play Destiny on our NEW 60-INCH FLATSCREEN TV! Love it. If I'm lucky, then I'll have a chance to review my favorite fan fictions on FanFiction.net and write a little bit after dinner. And then if I'm really lucky, mama will watch FullMetal Alchemist with me!
Up until a little bit ago, we used to have Art class with a bunch of other kids, but we stopped.
That is what my day normally consists of. Throw in a few visits from my cousin, who lives only 4 miles away, toss some codfish into the mix, and sprinkle it with sarcasm, and that's my life. I do other things at bedtime, too, like read my scriptures, write in my "inspiration spot" smack dab in the middle of the floor, look at some of my art, and play with my parakeets.
The unnaturally tidy "inspiration spot" in my room.
But that's basically it! Each day is a little different, of course, but this is the typical day in the School Of Chaos. From my point of view.
Because this picture has to be shown. Silly Henry.
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