Homeschool Mother's Journal

In my life this week...
Well, lets see. Got tons of stuff to do. I'm working my way through my amazing new Ebooks purchase on Organizing Life as Mom, Blogging & homeschooling. Love it. Its helping me stay so organized, which I LOVE. I am an organizing kinda person.
I've got a menu t plan this week and a grocery list. Gonna try to do some stocking up.
Oldest has a scout meeting this week and youngest is turning 10 on the 10th. LOL. My baby boy is growing up.

In out homeschool this week: The boys are working on lessons this week and will have next week off. I planned this week off cause my youngests birthday is on Wednesday but since his party is Saturday he wanted the week after so he can spend all week with his birthday presents.
We are working on the boys effort, handwriting and sloppiness of their lessons. They have been half ass doing lessons(and chores) and its time to put a stop to it.

Places were going and people were seeing...
This week were going to a scout meeting and Saturday were having friends over to celebrate our youngests birthday.

My favorite things this week is...
My youngests birthday

Whats working/whats not working for us...
The kids have been half ass doing lessons and chores and it doesn't work. We implemented some new rules(or brought back some old ones) and consequences too. They aren't too thrilled about it but they gotta deal with it.

Homeschool Mother's Journal

In my life this week:
Well, its been a busy and a bit stressful week. Monday hubby and I got a coupon from Chilis for a dinner for 2 and decided we'd have a date night. It was nice. No kids. We dropped them off at a friends to go swimming while we went out. Tuesday we had to drive down to Wichita Falls, about 45 minutes away. We do this once a month to visit my dad. This time he decided he wanted to take up shopping since I wouldnt get our food stamps in until the 10th of the month, some new thing the government is doing. We had food covered but when my dad sets his mind to something theres no stopping him. He can be a stubborn man. Well, that took a lot longer than expected since he moves quite slow nowadays. We didn't get home until around 9. Which throws our evening schedule off.
Wednesday we managed to stay home and cook dinner. It was nice. Thursday we went out to CiCi's, not my favorite place but hubbys boss at work takes the guys and their families out there once a month when they make their hours at work. So, free dinner.
And Friday night we were suppose to have dinner and a movie at home. Friday nights are usually reserved for Pizza, take out or some finger type food. We were suppose to have nachos. But the kids upset me so much, then I smashed my finger in the door as we were leaving to go get a movie I told them I wasn't cooking so hubby ordered us Chinese.
Today we have some errands to run and hubby and youngest are going to the races tonight. Tomorrow will be just as busy with me working on lessons.
The kids decided not to do their zone chores this week too. I wasnt very happy about that decision.
In our homeschool this week:
The boys have decided to do half ass work this week and sloppy work. Its really upsetting me. I know they want to finish their lessons and move on but when they scribble color printouts I have printed for them and their writing is unreadable, thats just unacceptable. They had a reward each week for doing good, readable work and completeing their chores. They could get a movie rental when we go to Hastings. But they have not earned that reward since we implemented in two weeks ago. I have to come up with another way to motivate them to do better quality work. They certainly didnt set a good example for our visiting guests, Ginger and Zoroark. (Our flat travelers)
This past week we saw our friend Amy when the kids went to swim at her house, my dad, Hubbys works buddies and boss, and our friend/High Priestess Mary.
My favorite thing this week would have to be when hubby and I had a date night. Its been so long since thats happened. We usually have the kids with us all the time.
Whats working/whats not...well a lot isnt working. The kids not doing their lessons, their chores and me being totally stressed!

Im hoping next week will be more calm and the kids get thier stuff done. But with our youngest turning 10 next week I don't know what kind of crazy week we will have.

Homeschool Mother's Journal

In our homeschool this week:

The boys are learning about France this week. They are counting to 10 in French and building the Effiel Tower.

In our Family this week:

We have started a new way of handling workboxes, lessons & chores. Since the boys are getting older w decided to change up some of the routines. The workboxes are now in the boys rooms instead of the family room. They are working at their desks (still a work in progress).

With chores I have a chore chart printed on their doors with personal chores they need to do daily, brush teeth, shower, deoderant, water the gecko, cat care, stuff like that. And they have 1 thing in their room to do each day. Today is straighten dresser drawers.

Then theres a chore chart in the kitchen and bathroom listing their daily chores. If they don't do them they get a drop. A drop means no allowance. They don't like that.

They are also at the age where I shouldn't have to hoover over them to do their chores either. I will remind them occassionally but other than that they need to learn time management.

For Lunch Today:

For lunch today the boys had homemade pizza bagel- whole wheat bagel, tomato sauce, turkey pepperoni & grated cheese, apple sauce- sugar free of course, and some left over homemade cookie cake.

The kids LOVE this lunch. Its like the bagel bites, but bigger & a lot healthier. Not processed.

A Homeschool Mother's Journal

In my life this week...

This week the boys have a dentist appointment and I am gonna try to scrapbook pictures from 2006.

In our homeschool this week...

This week will be filled with Korean study and art, Colonial Life exploration, Chemistry experiements, Physical Fitness, Spanish, Latin, Religious Studies, Life Skills, Logic, and of course handwriting practice for my guys.

Places we're going and people we're seeing...

On Sunday we're going to visit my dad. We do this once a month. We haven't been able to do this in several months cause our vehicles have been down. So, he's been coming up to us.

My favorite thing this week was...

Putting together the China Lapbook and seeing all the progress the kids made this week.

What's working/not working for us...

This week went pretty well. The kids seemed to enjoy all the lessons. They especially loved the new board game. Totally Gross the Game.

Homeschool questions/thoughts I have...
I'm worried about my oldest, 13 yrs old, and his high school level lessons. I worry that the lessons I am creating will be enough.

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