Anyway, today was a good "school day." I realized that the morning routine is starting to work. The younger kids get up long before the teenagers and so far on their morning routines, they are supposed to feed themselves breakfast and pick up the clutter in all of the common rooms. It only took them about 15-20 minutes to do it. We are also working really hard at keeping up with the dishes and the laundry and are managing to do pretty well with that as well.
I'm noticing that, without the stress of academics, I have more time and energy for the "lessons" that we've always skipped. Today, after lunch, I got the little girls working on cleaning their room and then had a sewing lesson with Emmy. After that, I taught Kjeri some of the finer points of baking chocolate chip cookies. (No, seriously. She now knows why my batter is always so much lighter than hers.)
In a couple of weeks, when we get the tax return, I'm planning to have them help me work on finishing the basement. I've also got plans for planting a garden this summer and doing some drying and canning after that. We might even spend a whole year on this kind of curriculum.
I learned that we don't have to study history and science to learn something important.
What did you learn today?
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