Now that I have one child going to school and two of them in mostly independent guides (Preparing is almost completely independent for us because they read their own history as well as the ind history and science), I've found myself to be really lazy when it comes to school for Evie and Penelope.
Evie has some processing stuff going on and isn't reading well yet, so she seems younger school wise. She's technically 2nd grade, but I basically teach her as 1st grade. And first grade for us isn't very consistent because I don't tend to be consistent with them for full school days until they are 7 (compulsory age here). So it's hard for me to do much more than math and her working on reading with her leapfrog stuff. She's doing well in math. She's about 1/4 of the way through 1B and we didn't start the K books until the beginning of last school year... actually about this time last year.
Penelope will be 4 in a couple of weeks. She will do about three pages out of a dollar store shapes and colors workbook per week. It's always her bringing the book to me to do it. I had intended on starting LHTH last January with her, but at that point I was running Preparing and Bigger as well as RTR and starting Evie with LHFHG. So I decided to wait until July to start... that's when we officially start our new school year, and I knew I wouldn't have anyone starting anything new at that point. Well, July was insanely busy, and then Jayden was starting school in August as well as a beach trip we took. So I said I was going to start here in October since she was going to be turning 4. Well, now I just don't want to
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Anyway, I had told the kids that this week we were buckling down and working hard between now and Thanksgiving. All of us. Of course I forgot to remind them before bed last night, so everyone did work and chores today, but not like I had intended. But now they've been reminded and so tomorrow at 8:30 they will have 30 minutes of chores and then they will work diligently on school until lunch time. At that point they will stop. So in theory I'll get at least one full day in with Evie and Penelope both every day.
Like I said, this post is for anyone else who is struggling. I'm having to chant to myself "I can do this for roughly six weeks. It's less than two months. I can be consistent!"