A Day in the Life...

I won't go into the before-school routine. As usual, we got off to a late start.

We started off with devotions. This week we're talking about being thankful in all things. That's a tough order!

We started off with Katie Grace's main lesson. She's in the middle of a saints main lesson block. This morning, she narrated the story of St. Brigid to me and the illustrated it. She then copied an Irish saying "May God keep you safe beneath St. Brigid's cloak." She wrote some sentences about St. Brigid that ended with periods. We ended up her lesson cuddling up so she could read to me from Little Bear. Then she did a Calculadder.

While Katie Grace did this, Michael made his paper mache head for Halloween. Did you know paper mache means "chewed paper" in French? Crazy.

Nicholas, meanwhile, played with the baby.

We had a quick chat about Sts. Jude and Simon, whose feast day is today.

Now it was time for Michael's main lesson. He's studying Pennsylvania. He read a little about PA's economy and then added a page on Pennsylvania's resources, industries and manufacturers to his PA Main Lesson Book. We talked about the four types of sentences--declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative-- and he wrote PA-related sentences for each. His copywork was from William Penn's Fruits of Solitude:

Right is right, even if everyone is against it.
Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

He followed this up with his independent work. He did his daily geography and read a few more chapters from Miracles on Maple Hill. He updated his reading log and did his Calculadder on his own.

Katie Grace, meanwhile, did her daily geography on her own and practiced her spelling words. Then I set her up with a Calculadder, and then she was done with her independant work.

We did a quick art lesson--How to Draw a Cat-- and then the big kids were done for the morning. That left me free to do Circle Time with Nicholas (Katie Grace and Daniel joined in as well).

Then lunch!

We started listening to an audiobook we downloaded from the library website--The Chocolate Touch. We had only intended to listen to the first two chapters, but the kids enjoyed it so much, we listened to eight! Before we knew it, Michael had to leave for orchestra.

Daddy came home and put the baby down for a nap, and Katie Grace and Nicholas watched Between the Lions while I took Michael to orchestra.

When I got back, we read Story of the World.

Then I told a nature story about the leaf cycle. Both the older kids drew a picture for their main lesson books. Nicholas and I worked on a spider book we're making.

Then we cleaned up, and we were done for the day!