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Hey friends. So it's a little after 5.30 a.m. It's Monday. And it's our first full day of homeschool for the year. So
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sitting in my closet right now because I am going to put on my socks and my shoes head downstairs for a workout. And I'm just going to
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take you with me today. We don't have anything really going on outside of home today, so we're
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going to be at home, and I thought it would be fun just to take you with me. So let's go
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So basement is a little bit of a mess right now
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We've got the ping pong table out and a lot of junk in the back because we were cleaning
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out one of our back rooms. But this is typically when I come downstairs for a workout, this is where I typically work out
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And today we're going to be up front here doing some. weight training
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So this was one of the things my husband really wanted to put in our basement when we finished
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it. And it definitely comes in handy sometimes when I'm working out down here or we want to
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watch a family video. So this is his baby right here. I'm trying to get no better routine
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of waking up in the morning. I do my first five Bible study. I use the app to do that before I
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come downstairs to work out. Monday and Wednesday, I'm usually down here doing some strength
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training. I use less mills body pump. When I'm in training season for marathons, usually Tuesday
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Wednesday, and Thursday I will run. Friday, I will hop on my spin bike and do another less mill
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program, a spin program called RPM. So that's my typical routine. Again, I'm trying to get in a better
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routine and get up early so I can get my workout done before we start for the day. It's probably been
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a little over a month where I'm getting into this new groove. I used to work out at night a lot
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but so far I'm liking having this start to my day. So I'm going to get everything loaded
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and get my workout in and then we're going to continue on with the day
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Okay, workout is done. It always feels good to get this done first thing in the day
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And I really love Les Mills programs. If you're looking for something that you can do easily at home
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they have so many different options for workouts besides just body pump. You will never get bored doing their routines
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They are, you know, for beginners to advance, lots of different options from cardio, strength
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training, their research backed, and they're great. So I highly recommend them if you're looking for a workout program that you can do at home
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They also have a lot of pre-made programs that you can follow very easily. Okay, so next step, I'm going to go upstairs
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I'm going to shower and get ready for the day. My kids are usually up early, so I'm thinking when I go upstairs, they're probably going to be
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already working on some of their independent work. So let's just head on upstairs and see
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Say good morning to them if they're up. So it might be a little noisy upstairs. We have some
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fans going, a fire alarm on the stairs. We had some water damage and some interesting events last
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week that we've got some fans going so that they can dry out our upstairs. So I apologize
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for any noise. And I was right. Luke is up. He's my early riser. He's got homeschooled
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planet open. Good morning, Luke. So Hugh is going to probably be working on some of his
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independent work and girls are not awake yet. I'm going to go upstairs, get ready, see how they are
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doing. And then we will come check in back down here. All right, so it's almost 8 o'clock
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And I'm going to sneak into my office for a few minutes to just pray and do my devotion
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real quick and a little bit of my Bible memory work. And then my plan is to start breakfast around 8 today and be eating hopefully by about 8 I don make breakfast every day A lot of days my kids do their own thing They make their own breakfast But today since it the first full day of
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homeschool, I am going to make a special breakfast. But it is really important to just start the day
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with prayer and Bible study. Today I'm going to do one of my devotionals that I love. It's New
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Morning Mercies. And I'm going to, like I said, work on a memory
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reverse. Typically, um, when we start our Bible study fellowship, this is when I'll work on
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some of my Bible study questions and readings for that program. But today we're just going
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to do it a devotional. I'm going to pray and then I'm going to head out and start making
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breakfast for the kids. All right. We've got another one awake working on devotional and maybe some Latin
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And I'm going to start making some breakfast. We are going to do
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funfetti pancakes this morning for our first day of homeschooling. school, so I've got some ingredients on the counter and we're going to get started
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Okay, so it is almost 9 o'clock. I'm a little bit behind schedule, which typically tends to happen. The kids are eating breakfast. I'm going to clean up the kitchen a little bit, and then I will probably have some breakfast. I sometimes I don't always feel like pancakes. Today, this is what I typically like to go to for breakfast. So I'm going to have some oatmeal, get some coffee ready
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and clean up the kitchen. And then we will get started with the next thing on the agenda
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Okay, so I've got my oatmeal and my coffee right here. This is my favorite coffee mug ever
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It's an ember mug, and it is chargeable. It stays hot during the homeschool day
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so I don't have to keep reheating my coffee in the microwave. I'm about ready to call all the kids together
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We're going to be doing our Bible portion together of exploring countries and cultures
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So our first day, here's what we're going to be doing right up here
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And let's get started. Okay, so while the kids are working on
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they're copying down a memory verse. They're going to be decorating their pages. And then after this, while they're finishing up
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I'm going to be starting with my preschooler on what he's going to be working on today
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So we're doing my father's world voyage of discovery, and on week one, we're going to be starting with a little activity for creation day. So this is what we're going to be doing next with him
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Okay, so while Oliver is finishing up, do you need help with that, bud
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Yeah. It's not coming off. No. You got it? Okay, so while Oliver is finishing up, my oldest son is going to come in
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We're going to do his language arts lesson. It is about a little after 10.30 right now
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And we're starting this week, lesson three. So we are really loving this curriculum
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We're going to be starting a little passage from Bambi. So it tells us
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me exactly what we're going to need to do for this lesson. So day one, this is my teacher manual
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So we're going to be doing some dictation. We're going to be working on spelling list
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talking about some different prefixes and suffixes. We had started a chart on one of the first
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days. So we're going to go through there. And it doesn't look like it's too bad today. So that's
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what we're going to do next while Oliver is finishing up. And he is picking up his activity
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right now, so let's get started. All right. So we just finished with our sixth grade learning language arts through literature lesson
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It is 1110 right now. So it took us about, gosh, what time do we start? Oh, so probably about 20, 25 minutes, I think it was
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So my son is pretty much done with the rest of this independent work and he's going to take a break
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And while we were working, my daughters are reading and working on some of their independent work
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So this one right here, she is doing her book basket time
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So this is just where she will pull a book from a basket that I have usually related to what we're going to be studying
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It's from the list that I got from my father's world exploring countries and cultures
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so she is doing that and then we're getting ready to start their language arts. So when she is
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finished, they are going to be working on the purple books. Let me show you today what we're going to be
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doing. So we've already been doing these lessons for a couple of weeks. And today they're going to
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start a book study. So they're going to have some more reading that they're going to do. And these
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book studies, they kind of work on independently. This will be the first one that we've done
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using this curriculum, but they do have some different questions and stuff to go along as they go through that study
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But the lesson we'll do together today is going to be, they have an excerpt from Mr. Popper's Penguins
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and then we'll be doing day one. So they will be reading, doing a little bit of narration, and they'll have some copywork, it looks like
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we'll be working on their spelling list for the week and a little bit more copywork and working on
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those spelling rules. Okay, so not too long of a lesson today for their language arts either
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So I'm going to get both of my daughters over here. She's going to finish up her reading and then
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we're going to get started. Okay, it's almost noon. I am getting just a little bit of work done while my girls are finishing up their language arts
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and I'm actually going to start preheating the oven and getting some lunch ready
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We're doing pretty good with the schedule today. So lunch is what is next
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So I'm going to get going on that. All right, so it's lunchtime, and I'm going to get the kids their lunch
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I am going to this will be my lunch today I don always have these but they were on sale so I picked up a salad And then while we are eating lunch I going to turn on World Watch News We enjoy watching that when we can
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It's a great Christian news program that's about 10-minute segment that gives news updates
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And we just really enjoy it. So we're going to put that on and have some lunch. And then
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get going from there. All right
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All right. Lunch is done
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So next up, we're moving into exploring countries and cultures and I'm going to do this with my three big kids who are fueled up and ready to
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go. I think you're in Luke's seat. So you better move. He's going to, he's not going to like that very much
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All right, so I just want to show you really quick what we're going to be doing. We already did the
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Bible section. I X out the language arts, spelling English and math, because we're using different
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curriculums for those. So we're moving down here to geography. And then we'll also have
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science today. So that is what is up next. Yes, we do have a work text
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Okay, so it is about 2.30. We just finished my father's world, exploring countries and cultures, geography, and our science
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We are using properties of ecosystems today. We're going to do just a little bit of our BGA Press history lesson and then our BGA Press Bible
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And it shouldn't take very long. I'm hoping to finish up. close to three, and then we are going to do a little first day of school tradition. So we're going to get
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started on this. Okay, so. Okay, so
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We just finished up with our heritage studies and a quick reading from our BJU Press Bible
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And right now, I forgot to do this earlier, but each year I like to have my kids fill out this About Me sheet
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Usually we do this on the first day and they're really fun to look back at. Later on, I just had a memory pop up the other day that showed some of their answers and things that they had filled out about four years ago
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So they're always fun to look back at. So they're filling this out and then every year after our first day of school we go out to Menchies and get some Froyo
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So they're really excited about that and we're going to go get some Froio
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It is 318 right now. So we finish with everything for the day
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And except for I was going to do our piano lesson with my little guy and we didn't get to that yet
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So we'll probably do that a little bit later tonight. And my piano lessons
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And I will add that, again, this is kind of, I mean, it's a typical day for whenever we are going to be at home
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But, you know, it's early August. Once September hits, we are going to have some afternoon practices
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We will have Bible Study Fellowship that starts up on Tuesdays, and I will have some meetings to go along with that
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We'll have co-ops on Thursdays. So this isn't necessarily what every single day is going to look like
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and there is a lot of room for flexibility in the lesson plans, and I do have to make adjustments at times
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But this was a fun first day. We got a lot of stuff done. I'm looking forward to our new curriculum, and we are looking forward to going out for ice cream now, right, guys
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Yeah. All right. So I hope you enjoyed hanging out with us our first day
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