I quite like the down to earth blog. It has a forum also. I don't agree with everything so I just take notice of the bits that I like. HTH

Here's our grade 7 time table and schedule. Our school year starts at the beginning of February and finishes at the beginning of December, so we are half way through. My daughter will go to school next year (all my children go to high school) 5:10am - Up and swimming 7:00am - Shower, breakfast, make bed, tidy room 8:15am - Religion Bible reading and Religion for Young Catholics 8:30am - Maths Excel Year 7 (It was Saxon Algebra 1/2, and I have loved the Saxon series, but thought for next year she needs to have covered all the bases that other Year 7's here would have covered) If she hasn't finished a chapter within the hour, she just stops and continues on from there the next day. 9:30am - Piano Scales and theory 10:00am - English : Galore Park English : Jump In - Apologia : Wordly Wise - Book 4 : Spelling (made up from WW or Galore) : Grammar - Rod and Staff 6 : Literature - Lightning Literature 9th Grade She always does the first four but if she's really interested in her Jump In writing then I leave the grammar and literature for the next day. 11:30am - Science - Education Exploration (I love, love, love this science programme) Science in primary schools in Australia is virtually non-existant, so anything is better than nothing but I still LOVE this. We also read a little bit of Physics - Real Science for kids Level 1 If dd is building a science project we can go a bit longer, but usually next is 11:50am - German - Muzzy DVDs 12:00 - Angelus prayer and lunch 12:45 - History We are focusing on Australian history for this semester and reading various books. I read and she draws. 1:05 - Art - How to Talk to Children About Art - another book that is really good. I think I bought this one in an art gallery somewhere (either here or in London). 1:20 - Poetry - Read 2-3 poems a day by the same poet. Every week the poet changes. This week is Wordsworth. 1:30 - Piano - Play exam pieces. We have broken piano playing into 2 parts so it's not too much in one go of things that she has to do. She plays other favourite pieces throughout the day. 2:00 - Stretching/Ballet - Trying to get some stretches/ballet in while I read a saint's biography to her. Some days it works, others not so well :001_smile: Others: She has had the last four weeks off swimming while the pool gets repainted over winter, so we have had later mornings - Yay!! However it will be back to normal at the beginning of August. She swims four mornings a week and also Saturday morning and three afternoons a week. She goes to piano one afternoon a week from 1:00pm She goes to ballet two afternoons a week. She goes to scouts one evening a week. She is also the only child that I have at home. My son finished school last year and my other daughter is in year 11, so obviously my time table would be a lot different if I had other children to teach as well. Oh and I've just ordered a logic book. Hopefully, it will arrive in the next couple of weeks. HTH and all the best.

Whoops, forgot to add - we usually only do half the diagramming that they suggest as well. Suzanne

My daughter (11) is working through R&S6 and she answers everything verbally except for diagramming sentences. Her retention rate is very good and if she forgets something we simply go back over that lesson. The lesson we are doing at the moment I find difficult, so this is the third day in a row that we'll be working through it (even though she understood it yesterday). Hope that helps, Suzanne

Quote: Originally Posted by cillakat All of the time. FebUary is a biggie too. And libary. _______________ And vuNerable. (Obviously I don't know how to insert those quote thingies)

Hi, I would recommend looking at adnilpress.com and going through their Australian history section. There might be something there that can help you. Good luck.:)

I homeschool until my guys go to high school, so two at school and only one at home now :sad: My son goes to a non-denominational private boys' school and my daughter goes to a non-denominational private girls' school (next door to my son's). Our afterschooling consists of teaching Catholicism, reading good literature and studying art.

My 10 year old dd has been talking about this for soooo long. She loves Get Smart and quotes it constantly. Fortunately, she has convinced her dad into taking her (it starts here next week) as this humour just makes me roll my eyes :001_rolleyes: