Weekly School Schedule Example

This was roughly our schedule last year, sometimes with different books plugged.  The circles after each item are how many times a week I want them to do that.  Items with no circles are at their discretion so long as they complete that week's reading.

Composers: Medieval music-  John Dunstable and the Dufay Collective

Artist: Jan Van Eyck

Print out your Bible chapter for memorizing and tape to the bathroom mirror.

*___Breakfast

*____Brush your teeth (while reading your memory work) O O O O O

* ____spend five minutes (set the timer) on a quick clutter patrol while listening to folk music (NOT your room- this is for the family, and needs to be In a part of the house others use) O O O O O

*___Bible: SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN O O

--Memory verses (with Mom) O O O O O

-- Sword Drill (with Mom) O O

*___Copywork/Handwriting O O O O O

While you work give the Cherub crayons and paper for coloring O O O O O

*__The Pursuit of God, by Tozer, chapter each week

*__ Saints and Heroes by George Hodges, chapter a week

*---- Hymns (W/Mom and the Cherub) O O O O O

*__ Dictionary O O (this is a collection of grammar and composition exercises I compiled for them using things we had on hand. IT's called 'Dictionary' because the first assignments were keyed to a dictionary.)

*___Math Drills O O

*____The Brendan Voyage chap 8 (13 pages)

*___ Biography- O O O (Sometimes I assign them, sometimes I let them choose. This term the Boy read Sgt York and the Girl chose Louisa May Alcott)

*___Walking DVD or other exercise O O O O O

*____Ivanhoe chapter a week

*____French O O O O O

*____The Once and Future King: chapter a week

*____ A Taste of Chaucer , chapter a week

*____ A Book of Famous Travels O O

*____ Handiwork O O O O

*____Churchill’s Birth of Britain chapter a week (with Mom or independently)

*____Rummy Roots O O (with Mom)

*____ In Freedom’s Cause (sometimes I assigned one chapter, sometimes two)

*_____Mainspring of Human Progress O O

*___Composer- you will listen at least 30 minutes a day

*___ History of English Literature 

*___John, Son of Thunder 15 pages a week

*___Spring Comes to the Ocean- give the Cherub 10 beads, two colors each to sort into two colored cups, reward her with craisins when she gets them in correctly. O O

*___ Age of Chivalry: one chapter.  Meanwhile, give the Cherub five beads and a pipe cleaner while you read.

*____Poetry Tennyson, especially Idylls of the King- read aloud to the Cherub O O O O O

*____Grammar of Poetry (w/Mom) O O

*____CM's “Ourselves” (w/Mom) O O

*____Story of Painting (WITH MOM)

*____Botany O O O

This term’s Life from Plutarch’s Lives (with Mom). While you work give The Cherub a puzzle to do, giving her a tiny bit of cheese or almond/coconut square when she puts a piece in O O O O O

*____This term’s Shakespeare play (with Mom and sibs) O

*____ Power in Proverbs O

*____ Singing/Folksongs w/Mom and Cherub O O O O O

*____ Two Little Savages, two chapters a week (they are short)

*___Bullfinch’s MYTHOLOGY O O O

*___DRAWING: Secret City (Imagination Station) or DRAW, WRITE, NOW (give the Cherub crayons to color with you while you do this) O O O O O

*____ Mind Benders OO (Give the Cherub five blocks to stack while you work) O O

*___TEEN YEARS OF JESUS- O O

*__free reading O O O

*___Current Events Notebook: choose the most important 2 or 3 stories of the week and re-write them in their own words as a chronicle of the year, making the heading of each page something like “This Week in History, January 30, 2022.”

*___Sign Language Table, apple, shoe, bed, church, sing, Jesus Loves Me, granda, Mom, more, car, milk, water, tree, car, eat, want, help- and sing in sign: “Oh I want to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas” with Cherub O O O O O

*___ A SPIT IS A PIECE OF LAND  O O O

*___Nutrition Study (see mom- it will be different each week) O

*______Keyboarding/typing (record your score or wpm here each week) (while you type, get the Cherub set up with the xylophone or electric keyboard- or the manual typewriter) O O O O

*___Nature Study O O

*___Math at Dad's Discretion:

*___Complete all chores each day O O O O O