1st Day of School - September 2nd, 2008

While the rest of the parents were fighting traffic in front of schools, dealing with kids that do not want to get out of bed, we were upstairs in our loft area, hanging out - talking about the new school year. Yes, I am attempting Homeschooling again. We are off to a great start so far. Spencer has a pretty intense schedule. He has goals of completing all of 8th grade and working into the summer so he can complete 9th grade and be a grade ahead. Here is our schedule.

Wake up, eat breakfast, make bed, clean room: 7:00 - 7:45 am

Chores(that nasty 5 letter word): 7:45 - 8:45

Scripture Study: 8:45 - 9:15

Exercise: 9:15-9:45

School begins with English: 9:45 - 10:45 - Spencer's English Curriculum has him writing a novel, you get all the Grammar, word-usage, Vocab. while you write. By the end of the year, he will publish a novel.

Math: 10:45-11:45 - Saxon Algebra is wonderful

History: 11:45 - 12:15 - Dan Hunters LDS version of U.S. History and Constitution

Science: 12:15 - 1:00 - Apologia Science

Lunch: 1:00 - 1:30

Reading - 1:30 - 2:00 - He reads on his own at night another 1-2 hours

Spanish - 2:00 - 2:30

Football - 3:00 - 6:15 - as of yesterday, he has decided he doesn't want to play anymore..

Cooper actually has more subjects than Spencer

Writing - journaling plus handwriting

Math

Spelling

Word Wise

Geography

Reading

Science

History

Cooking

Typing - Computers - his favorite subject. He has been typing a log of the moons orbit around the earth - all of it's phases in the 28 days - with the waxing and waning. Last week he had to calculate how much he weighed on all the planets and how old he was on each of the plants. Because Pluto is so many light years away, and really, we don't know if it is a planet or not? Scientist believe it is not, so we won't call it a planet. Anyway Cooper would be 2000 years old on Pluto. And on Jupiter he would weight 238 lbs. Isn't that amazing.

On Fridays, we are going to explore the world around us - it is our field trip day. So be looking forward to some amazing posting on the places and things we find in this state.