Some people have asked about our homeschool day. We’re very loose structurally but in general we operate on a 7-by-11, Delve-till-Twelve, Done-by-One schedule. That means each boy has 7 things they need to get done semi-independently by 11:00, i.e math, language-arts, music, and electives, plus several personal/household responsibilities. That gives me basically all morning to get my own act together before we gather together and spend 20 minutes praying, singing Psalms and Hymns, and reading a science-themed scripture passage. Then I read aloud from our science text and history text for 20 minutes each. So by the time Dad gets home for lunch at 12 we just need to eat, clean-up all our school stuff and by 1:00 everyone is free for the rest of the day. Only the high-schoolers have additional science and history work that they usually do later at night.
That’s a Bird’s Eye View of our day. Below is a Bird’s Eye View of our whole year school year in the subjects of Bible and Science using the books pictured above.
| Week | Memory Verse | Reading 1 | Reading 2 | Reading 3 | Reading 4 | Psalms and Hymns | Chapter |
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1 |
Gen. 1:1-10 | Slow Start | |||||
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2 |
Gen. 1:11-19 | Insects 9 | |||||
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3 |
Gen. 1:20-23 | Gen. 1:1-23 | Gen. 1:26-31 | Gen. 6:9-22 | Gen. 7 | Praise to the Lord 10/Joyful, Joyful 13 | Fish 1 |
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4 |
Gen. 9:8-11 | Gen. 8 | Gen. 9:1-17 | Gen. 15 | Ex. 7 | How Great Thou Art 16/God of Abraham 21 | Fish 2 |
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5 |
Ex. 19:4 | Ex. 16 | Lev. 1 | Lev. 11 | Num. 11 | Praise the Lord 26/All Creatures 33 | Fish 3 |
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6 |
Deut. 32:10-14 | Deut. 22:1-12 | 1 Kings 4:20-34 2 Kin. 6:24-7:20 | 1 Kings 17 | 1 Kings 21 | This Is My Father’s World 40/ Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above 45 | Fish 4 |
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7 |
Review | Insects 10 | |||||
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8 |
Job 12:7-10 | Job 1,9 | Job 12 | Job 28 | Job 38 | For the Beauty 64/All Thing Bright 65 | Fish 5 |
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9 |
Job 35:9,10 | Job 39 | Job 41,42 | Prov. 1 | Prov. 6 | Praise the Lord 77/O Worship the King 90 | Fish 6 |
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10 |
Prov. 23:4,5 | Prov. 7 | Prov. 23 | Prov. 27 | Prov. 30 | Psalm 8B, 11 | Fish 7 |
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11 |
Review | Insects 11 | |||||
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12 |
Psalm 36:7 | Psalm 8 | Psalm 11 | Psalm 36 | Psalm 50 | Psalm 36B, 55A | Fish 8 |
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13 |
Psalm 57:1,2 | Psalm 55 | Psalm 57 | Psalm 61 | Psalm 63 | Psalm 57A, 61 | Fish 9 |
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14 |
Psalm 84:3,4 | Psalm 68 | Psalm 74 | Psalm 78 | Psalm 79 | Psalm 84B, 91B | Fish 10 |
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15 |
Psalm 103:2-5 | Psalm 80 | Psalm 102 | Psalm 103 | Psalm 104 | Psalm 103B, 104 | Fish 11 |
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16 |
Psalm 104:24,25 | Psalm 105 | Psalm 124 | Psalm 147 | Psalm 148 | Psalm 104B-D | Fish 12 |
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17 |
Review | Insects 12 | |||||
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18 |
Isaiah 40:30,31 | Isaiah 2 | Isaiah 10 | Isaiah 31 | Isaiah 40 | Fairest Lord Jesus 104/The Comforter 148 | Fish 13 |
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19 |
Jer. 8:7 | Jer. 4:19-28 | Jer. 17 | Lam. 3 | Ezekiel 13 | Spirit of God 154/Come Holy Spirit 155 | Birds 1 |
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20 |
Ezek. 17:22-24 | Ezekiel 17 | Ezekiel 29 | Ezekiel 38 | Ezekiel 47 | Sweet Hour of Prayer 166/In the Garden 267 | Birds 2 |
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21 |
Amos 3:5 | Daniel 4 | Amos 3 | Hab. 1:12-2:1 | Zech. 5 | Christ the Lord 268/Morning Has Broken 274 | Insects 13 |
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22 |
Review | Birds 3 | |||||
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23 |
Matt. 4:19 | John 1 | Luke 3 | Matt. 4 | Mark | He Keeps Me Singing 359/Jesus I Come 369 | Birds 4 |
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24 |
Matt. 6:26 | Matt. 6 | Matt. 7 | Matt. 8 | Luke 9 | Nearer, My God 437/O Love That Will Not 439 | Birds 5 |
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25 |
Matt. 10:16 | Matt. 10 | Matt. 13 | Matt. 17 | Matt. 24 | Eternal Father 459/Jesus,Lover of My Soul 475 | Birds 6 |
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26 |
Matt. 23:37 | Luke 12 | Mark 14 | John 18,19 | John 20,21 | All The Way 481/Under His Wings 484 | Insects 14 |
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27 |
Review | Birds 7 | |||||
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28 |
Rom. 1:18-23 | Acts 10-11 | Rom. 1 | 1 Cor. 15 | James 3 | Sunshine in My Soul 487/Rock of Ages 490 | Birds 8 |
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29 |
Rev. 6-8 | Rev. 4 | Rev. 8 | Rev. 19 | Rev. 21,22 | God Be With You 583/Children of the 606 | Projects |
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30 |
Review | Projects |
Of Skies and Seas 