New Schedule :)

Saturday I decided it was time to implement a new schedule. We'd sort of fallen off the bandwagon of our last one, and also my daughter is all of a sudden interested in doing "real" school. So our new schedule has a lot more on it and a bit less free time - which is NOT to say that free time is gone, she still has alot of free play time *smiles*

My daughter is now learning how to read and interested in math. We're going to be memorizing whole passages from the Bible (right now, we're working on Exodus 20), doing arts and crafts, learning new chores, reading Pilgrim's Progress, learning poetry, going on nature walks and in general using our time more wisely. Today, we've memorized Exodus 20:4 ("You shall not make for youself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the waters under the earth") - I wrote the verse on the whiteboard and, even though she can't read, we erased one word at a time and kept going over the verse. Last week we memorized the first 3 verses of Exodus 20. We did another reading lesson (she read "that rat is sad" all by herself *grin* - I'm a proud mama). Since my daughter has been my only baby for 4, nearly 5, years I've never taught her how to dress herself because she's my baby, so this week, we're focusing on learning to dress all by herself. She did really well today! I think she'll have it down pat before the end of the week. We listened to Tchaikovsky's March from the Nutcracker because I thought she'd enjoy the liveliness of the tune. We're also sort of "studying" Thomas Kincaide - basically, we're going to spend time looking at and talking about one of his pieces a week. I don't have a book, just a calender, so I don't know the name of the piece we're studying. But my daughter loved all the flowers *smiles*. We also did a small art project - she cut out different shapes and glued them onto some paper. Really simple, but she had a blast! She did some math, we read a poem, did some cleaning - mopped the kitchen!, even got a rest in!

Tomorrow I think we're going to try to draw a tulip. Someone gave my daughter one yesterday and we have it in a jar of water. It's currently my daughter's favorite possession :). She's been taking it everywhere around the house with her. She brought it over to the piano when we were singing and again while we were doing her piano lesson. It went with her to her little table while doing school work, and over to the couch while we were reading. I think a nice drawing (done by her, of course) would be a nice way to commemorate her tulip. Plus, it will count as art *grin*.

Now, we're done with "school"-type stuff for the day (you know, the "official" stuff) so we're going to get to play for the rest of the day (of course, if you asked my daughter, she'd say she's been playing/having fun all day - I know because I asked *grin*). Enjoy the rest of your day!!!