Sometimes as a blogger you feel like your days aren’t good enough, you don’t get enough done, you are not creative enough. You aren’t doing enough hands on activities to share about.
Today was what I would consider an ideal day for us!
That’s why I’m so eager to share it with you.
Now these types of days don’t happen very often at all, so I definitely want to document when they do.
I woke up about 7:30am and lay in bed for about an hour reading on my phone and checking Facebook, my bank account and the like…
I got up and took a shower. I was ready for the day by 9am and started getting kids up.
Mr. 5 got up and got dressed and ate breakfast while my oldest two got showers and ready for the day and started independently on their schoolwork.
I started schoolwork with Mr. 5, which he is to the point that he can work through his daily workbook alone and the Get Set for the Code book that he just started in alone for the most part.
While he was working on those I got up Ms. 9 and got her sometime to eat.
It was now about 11am. I got her working on her Teaching Textbooks math lesson independently, then I went back to work on All About Reading with Mr. 5.
After that, Ms 9 was done with math, so I set her up to paint like Michelangelo while I read to her about Rome from A Child’s Geography. When I was done reading she continued to paint while I cooked lunch. It was sweet and sour little smokies with broccoli and hollandaise sauce. We all ate lunch about noon.
After lunch Mr. 5 watched The Magic School Bus: Makes a Stink. Ms. 9 read in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is the first book I have ever had to stop her from reading. In her Lightning Literature Curriculum she stops and does worksheets and we discuss things from the book. So really, this is a good thing and a bad thing.
After the younger kids were done with schoolwork, I met with each of my older kids to see what else they needed to do and to verify and correct their work.
By 1:30 everyone was done. We decided to make Christmas Cards with stamps to mail out to family and friends.
We enjoyed our day and my house was clean and dinner was in the crock pot!
It was heaven!
Then came bedtime…. That’s another story.
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