Monday morning schedule

I thought I would give you a glimpse into the real homeschool experience.  Around here, we run a tight ship.

• Class starts promptly at 8 a.m. ~ or 8:15.  ish.  
• We eat breakfast before school starts.  Usually, on the couch.
• We dress for school each day ~ in play clothes and no shoes.
• If the temperature is below 32 when mom gets out of bed, then we wear pajamas and fuzzy slippers to school.  No questions asked.
• If it snows ~ well, we're doing school anyway.  Mean, you say?  Really?  I'll remember that when public school is going through June and we're done in April.  This is the first year since I was in school that I'm hoping for 6 feet of snow.
• We listen to inspirational music during school - the biblical kind.
• We have a class pet.  He looks amazingly similiar to our household pet.
• We have class chores. 
• We take scheduled bathroom breaks ~ whenever.
• We learn.  Constantly.
• We pray before tests.  Actually, we pray every day.  Out loud.  After Bible reading and our daily devotional.
• We do math that they need to know for later AND math they will actually need to know in life.
• We do spelling ~ not BINGO.  It's before, not B4.
• We do language - also called English - also called grammar.
• We do memorization skills.
• We do penmanship ~ also called you-are-going-to-learn-how-to-write-in-cursive-and-you-will-use-it.
• We do science.  This year we are studying Astronomy.  It's called God made it.  We are learning how He made it so perfectly.
• We do History.  We are learning from creation on.  History includes the Bible and things happened all over the world in chronological order.  It should be learned that way.
• We do fun.
• We do messy.
• We do loud.
• We do reading ~~ all the time and any opportunity.
• We do manners.
• Mommy grades - tough.  At some point they need to learn how to handle constructive criticism and fixing mistakes.

As much as I love a good schedule, sometimes you just have to throw your hands in the air and say "today we do different".  I'm so thankful for that opportunity.