Putting My Foot Down...

In the interest of actually making progress this spring, I am putting my foot down, laying down the law, making a stand... whatever you want to call it! I am purposefully trying to keep the scheduling very, very simple, and allowing for super-jam-packed-bare-minimum days.

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Our school days:

Sunday (half-full day)

Monday (bare minimum)

Tuesday (full day)

Wednesday (bare minimum)

Thursday (full day)

Friday & Saturday: catch-up/make-up

On a full day, we will do:

Math

Language Arts

Literature

Read aloud from the Afternoon Basket

Documentary or Downton Abbey

On a shorter day, we will do:

Math

Literature

 Language Arts

And as time allows, read aloud from the Afternoon Basket

And on a bare-minimum day, we will do:

Math

Literature

Basically, my goals for each week are as follows:

Five math lessons per child

One Lively Art of Writing lesson (The Boy) / One spelling lesson (The Girl)

At least five chapters per week from our lit choice

One science project/observation each week

At least two chapters from our history read aloud each week

At least one chapter each from other rotational readings

I am hoping this is doable. I'd love to actually feel like we are really moving forward.

Now, having planned all that, I will say the most important things to me are (in order from most to slightly less important) MATH, LANGUAGE ARTS, LITERATURE

Everything else is just gravy!