Summer is in full swing at our house! We took a family vacation to Grandma and Grandpa's over 700 miles away. Left Pooka with them for another week. I think it was great for the little ones to get a little more of the attention! Now we are all home, rested, and ready to go!
To get the most out of our days, we have developed a routine, it keeps consistency, and makes going back to the school year a little easier!
We are starting with have breakfast done by 8:30 into a Daily Chores list. I took a printable I got from Mom's Tool Belt, a page that looks like it has a bunch of sticky notes all over it. I put one daily chore, such as litter box, empty dishwasher, etc. and each morning we each pick two, and have them done in 20 minutes! By 9-9:30 we start school. Yep, we keep going, just major downscale!
We start with Religion. This summer we are moving through the Old Testament Bible Stories. I am reading the story from my Bible, and they are doing a corresponding worksheet from DLTK's Growing Together. Next is academics, I love the Summer Bridging Series by Rainbow Bridging Publishing. Their workbooks are set up by Days, each day is a front back worksheet broken up into some math, English, Reading, Social Studies, even a Fitness challenge every other day, plus Bonus pages with science experiments and geography. The girls are both in Frontier Girls, so they work a little on a badge, or their Tall Flags each day, the Cat then spends at least one hour at piano practice while Pooka does her Latin lesson, and the Turtle reads me a book. Then they all read for one hours. By this time lunch is over, and they are free to finish any projects they have, play outside, or watch a preapproved TV show. Bedtime for the kids is 9:30, and they are sent with a book to read. They can stay up late as long as they are reading, and that they get up on time in the morning!
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