Preparing For A Successful School Year – I Hope!

I had no idea how this week would go. My only expectations were to transition us into a new schedule, get a feel for the third grade curriculum, and attempt to complete all of our lessons. The kids did AMAZING! I have bumped up our school time to six hours. My hope is to have our time stretched out in case we need multiple breaks during day. It helps all of us to have the day broken down by hour. (minute) Last year, I tried to get us to squeeze everything into a five-hour day. However, if it got derailed I was frustrated and the kids would get frustrated too because school would go much longer than expected.

I put too much pressure on the kids and myself. 

The new schedule helps to keep me from getting distracted too. I have all sorts of thoughts throughout the day and I want to write a post, jump on facebook, start cleaning the house, or some question will arise in my head because I saw the shadow of a cricket that leads me into researching how the brain processes shadows! I need to have a schedule myself.   I decided that school hours would be 8 am to 2 pm every day. Unfortunately, I just found out that Joshua’s virtual classes would be at 7 am Monday and Tuesday. Eeeek! Joshua is not a morning kind of kid.

We will have to work on that I suppose.

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