Saturday, August 29, 2015

2015-2016 Circle Time Planning


Now that I have books chosen for our 2015-2016 homeschool year, I'm trying to create the schedule.  Last night I worked out our "Circle Time" subjects, or subjects we want to do together as a family, Cindy Rollins coined this "Morning Time".  I took little squares of paper and wrote each subject/book title that I intended to use as well as creating Mon, Tues, Wed, etc., headers.  This I learned from Sonya Shafer while watching the Simply Charlotte Mason Learning and Living DVD series

Once all the little papers were written, I could easily manipulate them and place them under a day of the week accordingly.  For example, I knew I wanted to spend three days per week on Beautiful Feet's Modern American and World History study and two days per week on Beautfiul Feet's History of Science study.  These were easily plugged in across the top, altering days.

Next, I plan to study the book of Genesis using the TruthQuest Beginnings guide, along with church history and some missionary stories.  I've chosen the Nancy Ganz commentary, Herein is Love, as the spine of the Genesis study and plan to spend four days per week on it.  The church history and missionary study will rotate with Beautiful Feet's Geography, which we're finishing up from last year.  I will be combining readings from Trial & Triumph by Hannula and the History Lives series by Mindy and Brandon Withrow.  I know the Geography study will only take one day per week, as well as the missionary biography.  A dear friend told me about the YWAM missionary stories on audio.  Since we'll be traveling to choir on Thursday mornings, I thought this the perfect time to pop in a YWAM missionary audio, hence the reason I plugged it into Thursday.  I know the BF Geography study is a little heavier than reading a chapter of church history and given the fact that Ruben has tutoring at the Children's Dyslexia Center on Mon/Wed, I plugged it into Tuesday, one of our days we get to stay home all day!

Lastly, I looked at what I call the, Charlotte Mason Enrichment, that I wanted to incorporate into our Circle Time this year.  I'm outsourcing choir and art, but I still want to do composer and picture study at home.  In addition, I plan to carry on our Plutarch Study from last year, as well as adding Wild Animals I Have Known by Seton, a recommendation from Ambleside Online Year 5 for Natural History.  I simply placed these four items on a different day each week.  Then added Health and Nature Study to our light day, Friday.  This will be a time for outdoor recreation and exploring nature.

Put into table form, our Circle Time week will look something like this....



Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
History
Science
History
Science
History
Bible
            Bible
             Bible
           Bible
Health
Church History
Geography
Church History
Missionary
Nature Study
Composer Study
Plutarch
Natural History
Picture Study

Tutoring

Tutoring
Choir



Stay tuned for our full list of 2015-2016 curriculum as we begin our first day of school next week....

2 comments:

  1. I love it! Right now our morning time includes some of these each day:
    A chapter of our current literature read aloud. Peter Pan right now.
    A hymn we are learning.
    Picture Study - Edmund Dulac this semester, specifically his illustrations of Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales.
    Reading from one of HCA's fairy tales.
    The Story of the Orchestra book/CD - this semester we're enjoying this book and most of the time there is a cd track to listen to as well. It goes through musical periods, composers, and then the instrument families of the orchestra.

    We have yet to add in scripture memory, though I hope to add that this week.

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  2. Thanks Tristan...our dd read Peter Pan last year and hated it until the very last sentence, ha! I think she finally got it at the end, then she actually liked it :) Your morning time looks great!

    Blessings,
    Melissa

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