In preparation for school tomorrow after our long break, I went through a pile of papers I hadn't looked at for a while and found an old homeschooling journal from 2005. Wil was in 6th, Baylee was in 3rd, and Izzi was in 1st grade. I wish I would have kept it up faithfully but I was very sporadic. Anyway, I thought I'd put a few entries on her that I found interesting:

August 18, 2005
Started @ 8:30 and spent 1 hour and 10 minutes going over rules, expectations, etc. Did reading w/ Wil for 45 min. Baylee worked w/ Izzi . Izzi said it was too long.
Wil did Daily Grams on his own. It only took him 10 min. I made pot roast during that time. When he was done, I set him up w/ Social Studies and Baylee up w/ Spelling. They both worked for an hour. I read to Izzi for about 35 min. Then she got on the treadmill. Wil finished and got on the treadmill after Izzi. I gave Baylee her verbal quiz and then she got on the treadmill for her exercise before lunch.

Lunch and my treadmill time--1 hour & 10 min.

Wil & Izzi did math for about 20 min, then Wil started spelling while I was doing SS with Baylee. Then Baylee and I did language arts for 45 min. That seems to be the limit with her. Will did spelling (while complaining about how hard it is) for an hour.

We ended @ 3:30.

Aug, 20, Saturday
Went to the Indiana State Fair. Learned about agriculture, plants and farming. At least I did. The kids learned about the state's fattest pig.

Sept 19, 2005
This morning didn't start well. The girls were fighting before school even started. We began with prayer and the pledge at 8:30. Wil and Izzi fought over a Bible verse card. Wil put his head on his desk and had a bad attitude and began arguing. Izzi started crying. We said our verse a few times and talked about it, had history, sang a song and prayed again. Then we did science for 1 hour. For lunch and recess we are going to the park.

We had spelling, LA and math after lunch. Baylee really struggled with subtraction but I helped her and she did better.

Oct 10, 2005
Field trip to the Indianapolis Children's Museum to visit the Norman Rockwell exhibit. I loved the history. Even though the kids' favorite part was playing with the old-fashioned radios, phones and dress-up clothes, I think they actually learned something.

Nov 12
Mondays are always hard and today is no exception. Oh how i wish I could escape my emotions, just rip them out. Arggg.

Dec 4
While Wil did his math, I read to Baylee. Then Wil and Baylee did history and SS while I read to Izzi. Then I read to Wil while Baylee did LA. She was very confused, so I stopped reading to Wil and just helped her. I feel like we had a breakthrough with studying skills.
Lunch.
Wil did his SS, Izzi had reading, and Baylee had math in the afternoon.

Well, there's a little snapshot of 2005. If you're still with me, hope I didn't bore you too much!