The girls wake up around 7:30 and then do their morning chores (bed, dress, hygiene).  We make breakfast together most days - our resident chef Maggie, who is 9 years old - can make great biscuits!  Kathleen - who is 7 years old - is the "official toast maker" when we don't have biscuits.  Yum! 

School starts around 8:30 with our Morning Meeting.  It usually has 3 parts.  Morning Prayers and Bible Story, Singing, and Poetry. 

Morning Prayers and Bible Story:  We pray for the LORD to bless our day and then we pray for whomever God puts on our hearts.  We are currently reading A Child's Bible History.  I like it because the stories are fairly short and have discussion questions at the end.  It takes anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes to do this. 

Singing:  Currently, we are singing songs from the Wee Sing America tape I mentioned in my previous post.  Tucked in between the songs are little memory gems or quotations.  So far we have learned to sing We Love the USA, Star Spangled Banner, You're a Grand Flag and Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue.  The girls have alot of fun marching around first thing in the morning singing these patriotic songs at the top of their lungs!  The memory gems they have memorized so far are a quotation from JFK's Inaugural Address, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."  Also the Pledge of Allegiance and the Preamble to the Constitution.  The memory gems can also be used for copywork.  This takes about 10 minutes.

Poetry:  I use The Harp and Laurel Wreath for selections to memorize.  This year Kathleen has memorized The Owl and the Pussycat, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, and is currently working on Psalm 100.

Maggie has also memorized The Owl and the Pussycat and is currently working on America for Me by Henry van Dyke.  We work on our poems for about 10 minutes as well working on only one stanza at a time.

After our morning meeting we go on to do Latin which takes about 20 - 30 minutes and one of the following:  Nature Study, Christian Studies, English Studies, or American Studies.  After that we have a 30 minute break.

I guess that's about it for today!  Hope I didn't bore you with the nitty gritty details but it helps me see it in writing and I pray that it may benefit you too.

Have a blessed day!

Debbie

Mom to 4 girls!