"First" week of school

It is hard to believe that we are up to May already this year and I feel like I am still just beginning school for the year. Because we were away until the end of March. The last month and a bit have been all about settling back in and getting organized.

This week was the first week we have achieved a full week of school - for us a full week of school is 4 days in the week with one day off.

It has been an interesting week. Lots of tears as it seems that some of the kids are not sleeping all night (too cold?) and so very tired in the day. Plus I have cut out afternoon sleeps and instead chosen to put everyone down an hour earlier.

Zebra's reading as taken off this week - she is picking up readers out of the box and just reading. Books I thought would take years before she was at that stage of reading. I typed out a list of work for her to do for each day of the week and then put it in a folder and put the work sheets behind them. This means she can do the work in any order and at her own pace and also leaves me a bit more freer. Her work is showing imagination again and she is enthusiastic about it. Thank you Thrass. I am so pleased we discovered this program and I was able to do some training in learning how to use it.

Duckie has started learning to read. I am having trouble planning how we are going to edit FIAR plus sonlight plus Thrass to come out with one program to aid in this process! She is also flying through the Maths-U-See work.

Bunny is a challenge. She wants to do school all day! We started an all about me lapbook from Live and Learn and hopefully this will keep her occupied for a week or so!

I am having trouble keeping up with all the reading from sonlight. We are basically doing 3 cores (or bits of) with the 3 girls! I really need to get a routine planned out a bit more structured and this should help. Time to read Managers of their homes again!

I spent 2 days cooking while Peekers was home last week and this has been a reason why this week has gone so smoothly. I have been able to pull a meal or part of a meal out of the freezer every day which has cut down on so much time and kitchen clean up. I am going to plan this into every time he is back as it is so helpful. Plus helps out my pregnant brain with decision making. I no longer have to worry about what is for dinner just pull something out! It is such a lovely feeling to know the freezer is well stocked with meals.

We have only had 2 days this week where the weather was nice enough to play outside in the afternoon. I am hoping we get a fine day next Friday as I really want to go to the zoo with the girls.

Lets hope next week continues to be as organized!