#4 has had issues with his "r" and "l" sounds for quite some time.  At the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year I took him in to our local school district to be evaluated.  After his evaluation we decided he would go in for an hour and a half each morning to work on the areas I couldn't seem to get him to work. (Cause you know.. he's homeschooled.)

#4 and his Reading Teacher.

Since they helped #4 read .. I thought it would be unusual to do a painting  on newspaper.  I got the idea from this print on a old dictionary page.

I painted flowers on newspaper and then decoupage them on the clay pot.

I painted the pots, then painted the flowers on the newspaper.

I cut out the initials of one teacher… but then couldn't find "good" letters for the others.. so I just painted those.

#4 picked out the flowers for each of his teachers.

I think they liked them.

I'm going to try making these with Girl Scouts.. I'll let you know how that goes.

The Well Planned Day 2011-2012

A Family Homeschool Planner by Rebecca Scarlata Keliher

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I had been eyeballing this planner all summer.  I would have purchased it on sooner, but I was apprehensive on spending the $24.95.  Dumb I know.. I had a perfectly good planning system I have been using since the dawn of time.  WHY use a different one?

I was in Mardel's during their 20% off back to school sale, and grabbed one.  I am really glad I did.

My old one was off of the "A Garden Patch of Reproducible Homeschooling Planning & Educational Worksheets" CD. (check it out HERE)  I bought the CD of this and would print off a "weekly planning log" for each child, then fill out their stuff on each page; then hole punch the pages and put in a notebook.  This is and was a great way to do it.. but I would find those pages ALL OVER my house and car.  My older children would take them out of the notebook.. and not put them back.  **The Garden Patch CD has TONS of other reproducible papers that I still love and use.

Household Finances Household Duties page..

Class plan

This is the spot where you an put a photo (I don't have one).. name, height, weight, strengths, challenges, goals, and what I love all the info on the books they are using.

Student Schedule

I wish we could keep one of these.  This year our homeschool day was turned around because I'm taking #4 to speech at the public school..

Dinner Menu

I love this Dinner Menu section.  It's on every weekly plan page.  I do all my planning on Sunday night.  Whatever I have in the house, is what I plan for dinner this week.. if I don't have it, I put it on the shopping list.

Shopping List!

This has perforated pages so that you can easily tear it out to take it with you.

Attendance Report

Monthly Field Trip & Enrichment plans

Field Trip & Enrichment activities

Overview of a planning week.

Big Calendar to plan out your month

Planning week filled out.

I really like that this holds all of my kids stuff in one place.  If I actually used it for EVERYTHING it would do that would be good too. If you are looking for a all in one planner… check this one out!

I get asked a lot.. "What curriculum do you use?"  I use a variety of stuff.. but here's what we are doing this year.

This is #2's little world.  We tried something new this year.. his biology book is on his laptop.  I'll let you know how that goes.

• Bible: Biblical Manhood
• Math: Math U See Geometry
• English: Writers Express 0669471631 and BK English 1580791166
• Spelling: Ed Helper Online
• Journal: his own blog
• Science: Prentice Hall Biology 0131902369 (TE)
• World History The Human Odyssey 0538423307 (TE)
• Handwriting: Start Write
• FACS: Cooking/Sewing
• State: Cantering the Country 1931397333
• Art: Visual Manna Mastering Drawing 0967738428
• Economics: Consumer Education and Economics

This is #3's desk…cute..

• Bible: Get a Life 0633088900
• Math: Switched on Schoolhouse
• English: Writers Express Inc and BK English
• Journal: Online blog
• Literature: Prentice Hall Literature Bronze 0137224060
• Science Interactions Glencoe 0028268571 (TE)
• History: US History Beginnings to 1877 0030412188 (TE)
• Handwriting: Start Write
• FACS: Cooking/ Sewing
• States: Cantering the Country
• Art Visual Manna and American Art Appreciation 0132995212

#4's Books..

• Bible: Growing with God
• Math: Paths to Math Success 0382348931
• Reading: Hooked on Phonics, and other workbooks
• Spelling: Ed Helper online
• Science: Real Science 0026338044
• History: Our Communities 0021492646 wbk 0021492325
• Daily Geography 9781557999719
• Art: Visual Manna: Art Basics for Children
• Handwriting: Start Write

#5's books

• Bible: Growing with God
• Math: Paths to Math Success 038240166
• Reading: Hooked on Phonics and other workbooks
• Spelling: Ed Helper Online
• Science: Harcourt Science 0153229187 wbk 0153237112
• History: People and Places 002149262x
• Geography: Maps and Globes 0739809652
• Art: Visual Manna Art Basics

Here's a shot of my desk.. with a mixture of books.

We've been remodeling the school room… it's not quite done.  I hope it will be by this weekend.

A shot of our messy bookshelf…

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