Charlotte Mason's method was exactly what I was looking for. I made a list of all the subjects that I would like my kids to learn. I wanted them to learn History, Geography, another Language, proper writing, Reading, Math skills, Science (especially nature), Art, Music, appreciation for Literature and Books, cooking, Poetry and most of all the love for Learning. So I divided those subjects into two columns, the ones that would be done everyday and ones that only needed to be done once a week. I also wanted to include physical activity in my schedule. Everyday subjects would include some that we would do as family, and some that they were responsible for on individual basis. So everyday family work would include physical activity, short story reading (like Aesop's fables, Greek myths, bible stories, Native American stories, etc), History reading from living books (more on living books
here), Poetry, Spanish (the language I picked for them), and Literature reading. Then everyday individual work would include Math (at each child's level), Copywork, Individual reading (if the child was already reading independently), and Guitar practice. Then once a week we would study Geography by studying a different country every week (we would examine a map of the country, make one dish from that country and watch a video on it and read a tourism book), we would also spend one day on history in more detail (including watching a video and more in depth analysis of the time period we were studying).
Yesterday was Wednesday and that means Art Day!. Art day is like fun day at my house because Monkey love to pain and draw and it gives them a chance to do that. We got all the family and individual "every day" work out of the way during and after breakfast (math, copywork, poetry, reading, exercise, Spanish) and then we got to the fun part of the day.
