Heritage Acres Homeschool

Jun. 13, 2008

Chores? How do you do them?

Good Morning!  I have been mulling over something for a while now.  Around our house we all pitch in on chores, that has we do it... we help each other until the chore is done.  Well, I have been thinking of a way to help organize things around here because it seems we can get on one thing or another and not move on... make sense? Well, I want all the kids to be helpers and sometimes Cameo feels like she has to do everyone's job.  I don't want her to feel that way.  I want everyone to see that they have a part.  I am a visual learner, I feel that my kids are pretty visual as well, so I thought a chore chart would be good for us.  I bought one of those large foam boards and scored it off.  I made a place for their names and the days of the week.  I then made little rectangles with the job written on it and push pinned it on the board.  This way, if Cameo sweeps on Monday, I can swap it and have Eli sweep on Wednesday or something like that.  That way everyone is learning something new and everyone is helping.  Once the day is over I will go back and reset them for the next day.  I don't know if this will work perfectly or even well, I think it will work nicely but you never know until you try it.  One thing I think I need to do is go back and make some smaller squares so I can fit more under each name... 2 is hardly all we need to be helping with for the day.  I just figure this can help until it becomes second nature for each of the kids to be helpers with any task.  So is there something that you do? Something that works really well for your family? If so please let me know, I might be able to implement it in with my chart.  I want to thank you for stopping by... I appreciate each and every one of you!  Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend... I am going to the used homeschool book fair tomorrow! WOO HOO!!!

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Jun. 13, 2008 - Chore chart

Posted by Karie

I love the idea of a chore chart. I keep telling myself we need one, but I have no idea where we would keep one. It would certainly help around here. I love the one you have made. Karie www.kariesplace.robertcity.com

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Jul. 14, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by FoggyMountainFarm

This reminded me that I had on my to do list today to print out our chore lists (we do rotations on a week to week basis) and print them so they are back to back. I'm going to laminate them. The children have certain colors and can easily look at the lists for their color (which also has their name) for their chorese for whatever week it is (only 4 weeks just like month) and each child do chores according to their ages as do oldest dd who is 20 and myself rotate off. Makes it easier and chores get accomplished and mastered by the children.

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