it came time to gear up for school! While we homeschool, and my kids are still very young, we have a very flexible school schedule but the kiddos are showing serious signs of needing some structure in their lives so I have been prepping. It is reminding me a lot of when I was in a classroom.
We were ALMOST ready to start. Rex is 5.5 and going into 1st grade this year and Curly just turned 4 and is starting kindergarten this year so I had ordered everything for them and this week I pulled everything out to get it set up. I got the first few lessons of our reading program ready, got math pages put into binders, and got all of our phonogram cards torn apart and put into the card box.
Then, The Husband looks at me during a discussion when I was telling him I would like to get a table for the school area rather than the desks that we have now, and tells me that it would be great to be able to move school into the playroom. Well, my brain took that and ran with it and for the last 2 days I have been in hyper-drive. So far I have: organized Curly's closet, deep cleaned her room, picked up a cabinet and bed for her room, turned said cabinet into a dress up closet, had The Husband move her room around and take a shelf down, then move it back and put the shelf back up (sorry TH), and moved all of her stuff from the playroom into her room.
Still left to do is deep cleaning Rex's room and moving his toys into his room from the toy room then taking all of the school stuff down off the wall and moving it into the new school room. I am excited to have more wall space to work with! Non-school related, we are picking up Rex's bed and painting it. He wants the headboard to be camouflaged and The Husband is going to Home Depot soon and getting materials to build shelves for their rooms so we can have storage for the toys moving in there. And, don't tell the Husband but I have visions of paining their rooms very, very soon. I have quite a bit of stuff on craigslist that I am hoping sell soon because I am running out of room to store things in the meantime.
Hopefully I can have some before and after pictures soon of our new school room area and of the kids' room makeovers. Also, hopefully we can get started on school sometime before December! =)
Since I haven't mentioned running yet, I should also say that I am trying to decide on a traiining program. The Husband mentioned maybe I should run a half program a couple times from now until time to start the marathon program and then start at a normal marathon training point? I haven't decided yet and need to look at the calendar to decide. I need to give myself as much weight loss time before I reintroduce higher carbs as possible and since the last couple days I have been off the wagon, it may take FOREVER to make it to goal!
Happy Running!
We're gearing up for homeschooling to start too, but it's ACT study! Blech! I miss the fun days of homeschooling when we could just sit around (on the couches, mind you, no school room here, my house is too small!) and read history books out loud or play math games. Sounds like a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with ACT study!! :-) I'm not looking that far ahead yet! It scares me. Lol. In all honesty, most of our school will likely take place on the couch in our second living room where our school stuff used to be. The desire for a table that isn't our kitchen table for art projects and the fact that I was already a book border BEFORE homeschooling has helped me make the decision that we really need that space. Haha
DeleteI look forward to seeing what you post regarding homeschooling (especially the 4 year old). My twins just turned 4 in June and we are homeschooling them this year. I have one who is reading everything in sight and another who is so close to reading (he knows all the sight words and phonics, it is just actually sounding out the words that he has difficulty with). http://trimom82.blogspot.com
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