Next year stuff again!

I made a really pretty schedule in Word. It was prettier before I (and by I, I mean DH) turned it into an image. It got a little less pretty, but you get the idea. Tentative, of course. It's kind of....long. What will probably happen is that Ari's stuff will actually take this long, but his brothers' stuff won't, so they'll spend a lot of time playing with legos. This is fine, as long as they play with legos quietly. Also, this only works on the days we stay home all day. Which I'm hoping will be 3 days a week, except during soccer season. When we'll have to tweak. Isn't that always the way. So I still need to figure out how to abbreviate for the days when we're not here all day (Wednesdays for LEO classes and Fridays for park day, generally speaking). Also, I need to figure out how to wake up early enough to start school at 8. While I will put in a general disclaimer about how we aren't wedded to this schedule, and we're very flexible, and that's why we homeschool, dammit! we can do what we want and we don't let The Man tell us when to do math....the truth is we have tended to stick to a schedule more and more as time has gone on. It works for us. So here it is:

...I think you can click on it to make it bigger, if needed.

I was kind of worrying about history and making separate reading lists for read alouds, Ari's independent reading, Milo's independent reading, Gus' independent/not-independent but not with his brothers' reading...but I think I've pretty much decided to just have a big shelf of books and read them in whatever way makes sense as we go along. That's pretty much what we've done for the past two years, and it's resulted in kids who actually like history now, so I guess it's working out. I do need to order some more books, though. I spent much of the weekend making lists of documentaries/movies to go along with SOTW 2 and with earth and space science for....Documentary Night! We're the funnest family ever! Actually, I kind of think we are. I would have loved documentary night when I was a kid. I think a lot of my homeschooling mission is to create the kind of home life my nerdy little self would have loved as a kid. Documentary night! Musicals! Chess night! Poetry memorization in the car! And also Disney World.