A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

Well, we'll be tying up loose ends into the summer, but this was our final official week of the school year. Monday was a little bit off because after Morning Meeting we spent 2 hours on house cleaning to make up for the fact that we weren't home for Saturday chores on Saturday.  The littles helped wash windows and pick up toys; the middles cleaned their rooms and scrubbed bathtubs; the oldest mowed, dusted, folded, washed, tidied, organized, swept, and vacuumed.  In 2 hours, we did not get everything done, but we made a grand dent in the waiting work. We sat down to lunch with a sigh of satisfaction. After lunch: Pixie did OT with Brother Belle did math with Ladybug and Mister Man I helped Nature Angel through a grammar lesson and Little Princess through a spelling lesson I listened to Mister Man read Belle, Pixie, and Super Star all completed a minimum of 2 math lessons Rose Red continued to work through The Republic and Roots of American Order (She finished The...

Monday was a dreadful start to our week--complete with temper tantrums by the children (both younger and older!) and a lack of self control on my part.  The better part of the morning was spent dealing with Little Brother's behaviors and dealing with my own inadequacies, faults, and character flaws. However, I eventually took Little Brother into my lap in the blue rocking chair and just held him until he, at least, felt better. For my part, I am praying hard and putting together an anger-management-for-mom study program.  I've already got this book , and I've ordered this one .  I also have the scriptures.  I've been working on this life skill for well over a decade now.  It seems it is a much harder skill to learn than canning pickles or teaching a child to read. We did get through school with an hour to spare before dinner, so I left the older girls in charge of slicing bread, warming up soup, and watching the babies while I took the 6 middle-littles t...

I'm ready for school to be over. Which is funny because that means very little in this home of ours where firm routines are necessary to happy functioning and where we'll just keep on doing what we're doing now even though we'll call it summer time. I'm working on a summer schedule . . . and I'm dreaming of a vacation. I guess that's what I really want. :) But I these two (Sir Walter Scott and Pixie ) . . .  gave me a morning off in the kitchen on Mother's Day.  :) We had a solid school day on Monday --lots of math, reading, grammar, writing, geography, singing, OT, etc. Our Morning Meeting looks much the same as it did last week.  I do think I forgot to mention that we're learning to sing "All God's Creatures Got a Place in the Choir."   We printed lyrics and sing along with this video . Too fun!!! Rose Red hit her waterloo in Calculus Without Tears .  Even though we decided that her math goals will be practical ...