Jul. 26, 2008 - A Daily Schedule

I may still need to be curled up in the fetal position under a table somewhere.  Our days are going to be FULL, and I still need to make choices for the Auditory Processing problems for Big Man (8).  Here's a look at what I've been able to put together.  There are three tables since the last two days of the week are different from the first three days.  The times for some things are off a little.  For instance, One Minute Readers is a program Big Man will be doing by himself, and will only take about five minutes.  Once he is done, he can take a drink or bathroom break until I'm ready for his next item.  I'll do ten minutes of Literacy Leaders for Little Monkey, followed by twenty minutes of reading.  On the schedule, the pink section for reading evens out to thirty minutes.  Here's why I won't be answering the phone or doorbell until two o'clock during the week:

Fridays are usually Daddy Fun Day, so after Art (or a nature walk, whatever we do that day for the subject) they are basically done.  Where, oh where am I going to put the things the Audiologist suggested?  Well, many of those things are games or activities that can be done by the whole family, or can at least be done during the afternoon free play time.  Some of the other things look like they will be things to do one on one or in worksheet form.  I didn't think I'd need to break our schedule down into fifteen minute increments for a while.  Guess that wil teach me for thinking!  Who knows what this schedule will look like once all of the other things are added in!  I just need to deal with what I have now instead of worrying about what will come next month!  ("...do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own"  Matthew 6:34--boy isn't that the truth!!)  We have one more week before we start school.  We normally have a very, very light first two weeks.  Our first two weeks this year will still be light, just not as light as we are accustomed to!   If I had my choice, I would not begin history or science for a few weeks, until I felt like we were in our groove with everything else.  Unfortunately for me, Big Man has been looking forward to starting school again because those are the very subjects he's missed!    Since I really want to play up his strengths, I don't want to deny him the two subjects he enjoys the most while adding in a bunch of new, time consuming things.  We will start history, Tapestry of Grace (TOG), during our first week, but I'm going to attempt to hold off on Chemistry for a couple of weeks.  If there's too much complaining about no science, then I'll go ahead and add that in on the second week.  Stress!!  I'm feeling some stress!!

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