Yesterday I went a bit overboard with life. Some days everything crushes you and instead of going with it, you put on your boxing gloves and give it your best fight. Why? Nobody wins and we all just feel defeated? I guess momma is getting schooled too!
So as always, I remind myself " Row, row, row the boat... but gently (Bev) gently and down stream." At least that's what he says in my head...yeah, well yesterday I was rowing up a waterfall.
My new teacher mantra " Be a gentle river not a waterfall."
Thus with my painful lesson freshly learned, I had zero direction planned for today. Instead, I just pulled out our new Payday game and started reading the directions until Zach showed some interest. Payday is an older game - circa 2000 or older maybe. I had never played it but I wanted a monopoly -esque game to learn adding and subtracting up to place value of 10,000. This is the game for that!
Zach and I had fun playing together. (I always like the kids to have a win at a new game so they want to play again, but that didn't happen this time around.) Regardless the game is fun and fast paced to keep everyone interested.
Of course Lauren didn't want to play until she saw Zach and I having so much fun! So when Zach and I finished up our round, Lauren and I played round two. That girl is lucky! She won all the lotteries and beat me fair and square by $25K!
We spent the rest of our day with a fairly casual routine. Somehow when we do things casually, our school day rounds out to about 5-6 hours which is perfect!
Just to give you an idea of a typical easy day: Prodigy online math work 60-90 minutes, Phonics for Lauren and Storybook writing for Zach - 60 minutes, Aloud reading to Grandma - 40-60 minutes, Nature or History Videos, Cooking, Art, and Science experiments usually round out the rest of the time.
Phew, marathon momma needs to relax and spend more days like this. Obviously it helps when I have very little housework or regular work planned. I really don't know how any parents can manage homeschooling elementary kids while working part or full time. Kids really need a patient, focused adult for at least a few hours a day or everyone goes a bit PSYCHO.
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