It was a good week. With an 8 month old now officially underfoot and crawling like a mad man, we're finding a new groove. The baby has been waking up earlier, thereby taking an earlier morning nap, which affords us more uninterrupted school time.
I found a local homeschool group and I was excited to find out that they do weekly meet ups at various local parks.
This week, we made a concerted effort to reduce screen time. Which, naturally means more Mommy involvement (which, of course, is good and ideal, even if it is more challenging). We played a lot of Memory (and the kids shock me every single time with how well they do). In the morning they asked for their various screens quite a lot. I had to make suggestions of alternative activities time and time again, but by the afternoon, they had quite easily slipped into the 'new normal'. And were thinking of things for us to do themselves. And you know what? It felt good to say yes.
I also made Shawn a Morning Workbook. I made the cover in PSE using a couple Digi Scrap kits I had in my 'stash', then laminated it and bound it. We love it.
For the actual work part I printed off Teeny Tiny Teacher's Kindergarten Morning Work. It's perfect. Shawn insists on doing at least 2 pages at at time; each worksheet has just enough to keep things moving, while getting him in the 'school time' mentality. I love how the coloring portion is smack in the middle. Shawn is still in the very beginning stages of writing, so I write some things down in highlighter and he traces it. This is the best job he's ever done at writing his name. :)
I'm sure I'll write more on the subject, but Shawn will be 5 in November, and up until this week, I had fully intended to do "Public School at Home". Fully Intended. But I'm rethinking that now. And in the last 2 days I've gone from 95% planning on doing the school-at-home-thing to 95% planning on going it...on. my. own. It's only Kindergarten, right? And by golly, if I want to spend a month immersing the Littles in what life was like in the days of the Pioneers then I think I should be able to do that. And for it to count. Because it does. Of course it does.
So that was our week. I hope the next goes just as smoothly.
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