Scheduling

This year in our school we are trying something new. I have scheduled out our week and each day, as always. However, the kids pull out craft sticks that relate to that hour of school. Each craft stick is marked with something that child must do. For example, the first hour of school is for math, poetry and memorization. There are several different craft sticks that could be pulled out, such as Singapore Math, Aleks (Aleks.com), timed math, flashcards, math baseball (funbrain.com), poetry, and memorization (scripture passages). The backs of the craft sticks are color-coded to indicate how often that thing should be completed in a week (daily, couple times a week, weekly, bi-weekly). So the kids try to do as many craft sticks as they can in the hour before we move on to the next hour of school.

Our daily routine looks like this:
First hour: math, poetry, memorization.
Second hour: literature and writing.
Third hour: combined family rotations (Russian, singing, composer study, artist study, Plutarch, Shakespeare), different things on different days.
Fourth hour: lunch, listen to books on cds, and in the perfect world spend time in the current zone.
Fifth/Sixth hours: art, history, natural science and nature study, (combined as a family).

There are a few more details, but that is the basic day.