What a great start to the New Year! I managed to drag my butt out of bed and to the gym for a 6am start. It was a great workout, but what a wake-up! I’ll hopefully talk a little more about that tomorrow.
But for now - its home school time!
2008 was a good year for us as far as school was concerned. We finished our English, Math and History books - what a relief! This year I am planning on buckling down a bit more and becoming a lot stricter in both our schedule and expectations.
There have been far too many weeks that we take a day off here and there. We always make the work up, but I am really starting to despise the inconsistent schedule and habits that I have been passing on to the kids. But, no more!
I have worked out a rough lesson plans that takes us into the summer. If followed, we will be able to complete our English, Math, History, Latin and Science books. What is awesome is that we just started new English, Math and History books today! We will need to follow a 5 day schedule, so if we take any “days off” or field trips, we will need to make it up on Saturday. The girls understand this and are excited about implementing the new schedule!
I am also giving the girls more independent study type activities. Take for instance, math. They are required to do a full lesson a week with 5 worksheets. I don’t care when they get done but they must work on math daily, doing flash cards at a minimum if they have finished their worksheets. They will have a test on Friday and not passing is not an option! Latin will be done in a similar manner.
As far as school with Jake goes, its pretty much more of the same - consistency. Another big change for him is that their is no computer, Wii or tv time till all his school work and chores are done. He is not too happy about that rule, but he managed to get everything done today with minimal whining and was quite proud of himself!
Time for bed… this fat chick needs to hit the gym bright and early!










