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What is the easiest way to prepare for school? I have been pondering this question lately. Teacher's Planner Book I have my teacher's planner book started. In the front of the book I have included a section for routines and schedules that I hope to implement this year. Then I have section for each subject area. I plan on including notes and copies in these sections. To divide the sections I slipped pieces of brightly colored card stock into plastic page protectors. I wrote the subject in pencil and on the back I listed all the materials for that subject. That is probably as clear as mud. Teacher's Manuals and Student Workbooks I have all the Teacher's Manuals and Student Books stored on one shelf beside my desk. I am still thinking through what I want to do about their notebooks. Do I want one binder for each child with dividers for each subject? Do I want one binder for each subject? (I think that would be too many). I will most likely be taking the math pages out of their book and then slipping them into their binder. I still need to process this. I would love to be able to put all of their work into plastic pages, but that would be way too expensive. Photocopying I am trying to wait until everything arrives and take the things to be copied all at once to the copy shop, and then do that again once a month. I don't want to prepare more than a few weeks in advance (otherwise I will stress myself out). Curriculum Choices I am very happy with my curriculum choices. I am excited to be able to teach the boys new and exciting things from all these wonderful curriculums. Many of my curriculum choices for the boys are ones that will need to be taught one on one. This will be time consuming, but with the dynamics of our house I thought this was very important. School Room Our livingroom is our school room. Where do you do school? We have 3 computers (one is mine - the boys are NOT allowed to touch it and the other two the boys share) in our livingroom. We have a couple of bookshelves jam packed. There are more books in the bedrooms upstairs. We love to read. There are posters on the walls (a time line of creation that we made, ABC's, 1-10, and the books of the bible) with more to come soon ( a map of the world, a map of Canada, etc). We also have a television, dvd, and broken vcr (that is used to hook up the dvd to the tv - LOL). We watch too much tv and we spend too much time on the computer. I hope this all changes when we are full swing into school. I am actually NOT scheduling any computer time for the boys. I know it will happen incidentally, but I don't want whole blocks of time set aside for it when there are so many other things to do in the day. Chore Time In my routines I have added a couple of routine cleaning times which I really hope will help us get more together on doing the chores. Right now MOM does most of the work and I would really like the boys to be more independent and learn to take care of their things. My oldest son Elisha has aspergers/autism (which I will be discussing more in another/other posts) so right now we qualify for extra help ($) with housecleaning and childcare. Right now I get 4 hours of housecleaning every second week and 3 hours of childcare a week. This is such a blessing to our family. I have one afternoon a week where I can just be alone or with a friend if I want to. The down time is much needed! Anyways... right now our chore time will focus on just the basics.
So much to do. So much to think about. My head swims. Sometimes I feel like an executive secretary scheduling our life. Funny, for us this is quiet. Life is just busy. Most of the busyness is out of our control so we just work around it.
Have a great day! Honey
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