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Today was supposed to be our first day back at school. I admit, I didn't do the whole stressed out thing I do every year. This year was going to be different and a stressed out mom was not part of the lesson plan. The Baby decided to wake up early this morning. He is in a growth spurt again which means I seem to spend 23 hours a day nursing. By the time his brothers woke up I was already behind for the day. Noone was interested in breakfast. More accurately noone was interested in the work required to get breakfast. (Exactly how hard is it to put a piece of toast in a toaster?) I have to pull out my copy of "For Instruction in Righteousness." I really need to teach the boys what the Bible says about work. We delve right into the academics. The Bookworm decides that he would like to double time it through our phonics program so can I please give him his lesson seperately. I concede. Our phonics program was our most successful subject last year and I have to admit that I expected to just jump right in and be flying. Summer breaks slow down moms too I found out. I couldn't remember some of what *I* was supposed to do. Meanwhile Rabbit has started math. He is doing Saxon 5/4 this year, his first year with a "real" math textbook. And binder paper. Knowing that the first several lessons are refresher of skills he has already mastered I let him at it with no instruction. I figured it would be self-explanatory. Within minutes he is back asking what is he supposed to write- he was worried he had to copy down the discussion section. So I show him the anatomy of the math lesson and he goes off again. A little while later he comes back to ask another question. There is writing on the back of his page. This is good I think to myself, he has gotten pretty far. Then I turn the paper over and notice that he hasn't written anything on the front! He didn't realize that binder paper has a front and a back. I did not plan our group time very well. Honestly, I didn't plan any group time for the first week thinking that the things that didn't require a ton of my input would be the easiest to ease back into. Clearly this was a false idea. I decided to keep a list of what exactly was going on so I could get it together better tomorrow. I ws tempted to name it "First Day Failures" but went with the much more constructive sounding "Problems to be Addressed." We ended up packing up early and heading to the park to enjoy the beautiful day. They got to run off their energy and I got to sit in the sunshine. |
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