I read another blog who has a weekly wrap-up each week, just going over what they did that week in school and with their family. I like that idea. A lot of things happen during the week that I want to remember, but don't want to do an entire post about it. So I'm taking the idea and running with it!
We have now finished our 4th week of school without missing a day. WooHoo! For some reason saying 4 weeks down, 32 to go makes it seem like we haven't accomplished anything, so I'm sticking with just 4 weeks down!
We've finally found our groove as far as our flow chart/schedule goes. Because #1's math takes longer to teach and complete she usually ends up sitting at the table doing different work without any breaks until about 11. I explained that the reason that I do it that way is so that she can do math first and get it out of the way. I could change it to where she has open time to work on her other subjects at the beginning, but then she would end up having to work until lunch. She agreed that doing math first is the way she wants to do it, so we're sticking with that. She usually ends up working for about an hour after lunch, but that is just so she can get all her work alone stuff done by Wednesday. We can't have her little sister getting done before she does!
I've also switched it to where I do IEW with the girls on different weeks. I was already teaching them out of separate books. Because IEW takes longer to do than their language arts curriculum, having it where I was doing IEW with both of them the same week made for really long days, and then the week that we would do language arts we would be done with everything by 11. Switching it up makes the weeks about even as far as how long it takes to get everything done.
This week was my week to provide the meal before services Wednesday night. We switch off to where someone brings food for everyone else to eat each week. I end up bringing food about once every 6 weeks. Expense wise it ends up being about the same to bring food for 20-30 people every 6 weeks as opposed to eating at home each week. But I love not having to fix food on Wednesday night before church. I don't have to try to come up with quick fix meals that we have to eat and clean up before leaving for church. It is really nice! This week was the first week I brought a non-Mexican dish. What can I say? Finding something to make that you bring from home without having a kitchen to do anything in at the church severely limits what I can bring and Mexican is what I do best!
The best part of this week happened Tuesday morning though. I hadn't fallen asleep till about 3 Monday night and Hubby knew it so he turned my alarm off Tuesday morning without me knowing it. I woke up at 9:20. School is supposed to start at 9. After looking at my phone trying to figure out how I had turned my alarm off, I jumped out of bed trying to get my brain to figure out what subjects I was going to cancel that day. After I showered quickly I came out to the living room to find #1 and #2 working at the school table. They told me that Hubby had told them to work on whatever school work they could because he had turned off my alarm. They had done their Bible, gave each other their spelling tests, and #1 had gone through #2's language arts lesson with her. I was super impressed that they had figured out what they could do together and so proud of them for working together. It was also a moment of, "YES! It's working! I'm raising independent workers!" This isn't something I would ever want them to have to do on their own right now, but it's nice knowing that if they had to they could.
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