On The Learning Curve...

Well week one of the school year is over, and now I am readjusting the routine to see if we can have week 2 go a little more smoothly.

Here are a few things I learned:

1. Do as much the night before as you can! For Monday and Tuesday I was all over this. Clothes laid out for the kids, lunches and snacks packed for everyone, lesson boxes organized, any pre cutting needed for crafts completed. I slacked off on this by mid week and Wednesday and Thursday I found myself scrambling all over the place!

2. Make sure the bulk of home school lessons (the stuff that needs more concentration) is done BEFORE Faith goes to school. She wants to be involved so much and not miss her lessons from home. Doing this after picking her up from school was just too much. She was the queen of the meltdown after school. She needs to go straight to a "quiet time" after school. I think I will save the more "crafty" portions of our lessons for an after school and rest activity.

3. Find some Tot School activities to keep Nate busy while I focus on the Biggies. I have found some great ideas online that I will incorporate into next weeks lessons. He was just causing so much interruption last week! He will only color for 2 minutes, and blocks are not keeping him amused for long. Then he's on the table getting into everyones crayon boxes. That's my boy!

Those were the 3 big issues. I have now redone (again) the schedule and we will see if this week goes a bit more smoothly! But we are all on the learning curve, and I knew it would take a few tries, weeks, different schedule plans, etc. until we find the routine that EVERYONE can groove with well!

I love it so much already. I love to watch my kids learning. I love to see Sam reading words all by himself! I love how much they LOVE and are excited to do school!

And Miss Kindergarten is LOVING SCHOOL! She has a great teacher and comes out of class every day with a huge smile and chatting up a storm about her day! Picks are coming!