I've enjoyed reading other typical days on The Well Trained Mind website. So, here's mine.

8:30 am - I'm up. I check email and do a little work.

9:15 am - I have a lot of work to do, so instead, I start a blog.

10:00 am - I wake the girls up and feed them breakfast. They watch Arthur while I try to catch up with work. We are on a late schedule these days (obviously).

10:30 am - Time for homeschool. We start with stretches and a scripture. Then, we review Latin chapters 7 and 9. We are using Latin for Children and are really enjoying it. I bought it for Grace but Lillie is enjoying it, too. She doesn't absorb it all, but she gets it more than I thought she would. We do the chapter maxims, review the declension chants, and go through the vocab. While Lillie draws a picture, Grace and I try a new chant about the noun jobs. We talk about the grammar section and Grace diagrams a latin sentence. The grammar had really frustrated her on Friday (when we watched the DVD), but today she gets it, so I'm happy.

I hear the garbage truck come up the other side of the street, and rush downstairs to put the garbage out. This is usually the girls job, but I completely forgot until I heard the truck.

11:00 am - We start Spanish. Usually we use La Clase Divertida Level 2. I've been looking for something that would challenge Grace a bit more. I found SymTalk (on the wtmboards, of course). Today was our second lección and it went well. For Grace, at least. Lillie did the same thing she did Friday - suddenly got sleepy, bored, and irritable. But, we got up, jumped around a bit, did a silly conga line, singing "Yo como, como, como - I eat, eat, eat. Yo juego, juego, juego - I play, play. play". This didn't solve everything (Grace liked it more than Lillie), but it helped. A little. She had more fun making silly sentences with the flashcards, but had to be reminded to say them en español.

11:40 am - We move to Math. Grace does Saxon 65 and we start a lesson about prime numbers. Lillie does Saxon 1 and brightens up. She took a long time drawing her six puppies for a 'some, some went away story', but that was good because Grace needed the help with prime numbers.

When Lillie is done, she decides to listen to a math tape she made, so she puts on head phones and listens to herself say math facts over Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

12:20 (or so) pm - Grace gets out ABeka God's Gift of Language and works on possessive pronouns. Lillie switches to an audio CD for The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. While she listens to it, she crosses off the consonant sounds she hears. Then Lillie and I do a lesson in The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. We practice reading double consonants. Grace has finished her lesson, they start playing with the magnets, but Lillie is frustrated with what Grace is showing her and I decide English is over. I totally forget to have Grace work on her spelling (we use Spelling Workout E) and Lillie review her Dolch phrases.

1:00 pm (or so) - We start History (save the best for last). We listen to a chapter on the Mauryan Empire in Ancient India (in the Story of the World). I ask questions about the chapter to see what they remember. For narrations, Grace writes the story about the hare from the Jakarta Tales and Lillie draws a picture. She draws cartoon bubbles and tells me what to write in them (The hare asks, "Why isn't this fire killing me? It's not hot!" The brahmin replies, "Because I'm a god and I don't want to kill animals!").

Then, we take out our new Knowledge Quest maps and draw in the Ganges River and color in the Mauryan Empire. Grace writes in the major kingdoms, labels the rivers, the Bay of Bengal and the oceans. I read The Sacred River about the Ganges River and we are done at 2:15 pm. If we could get off this late schedule, we would have been done at 1:00.

2:30 pm - We eat lunch.

2:50 pm - We get out our clay waterpots that the girls made when we were learning about the Ancient Americas and paint them. While the girls are painting, I do the dishes and pick up the house. I should have had them pick up the school/play room, but it was just easier and quicker to do myself.

3:30 pm - We head to Target to pick up valentines for a Valentine's Day Homeschool party.

4:30 pm - We get home and neighbors come over to play. I write out our day.

The plan for the rest of the day is for the girls to play while I work (really, and I mean it), eat dinner, scrub the roman coins we have soaking in olive oil, practice piano, watch tv (I know it's hard to fit it all in, but when it's important, you make time) read, sleep. Maybe try to get to bed earlier.