Week 4

It has been a GREAT week! 

My personal stuff:  I'm RIPPED!  (ok, not exactly)
I was supposed to do week 4 of Ripped in 30, but I didn't enjoy her exercises; they were very hard on the joints and not very effective because they were so awkward to me that I couldn't do them.  I decided to start P90X instead.  This week I only did 30 min of the total hour each day.  Next week I am going to wake up at 5am so I can squeeze in the whole hour.  I really like P90X so far! 

What does exercising have to do with homeschooling?  It affects my mood and energy level so much that if I don't do it, I notice that I'm not as happy of a mother or as motivated as a homeschooler.  Exercise = a sucessful day.  This is so new to me.  I've never exercised before now and I LOVE it.

School has been great this week, other than Monday (see two posts ago).  We did do the rest of the week with the new schedule: school from 8am to 10am, chores at 10am, followed by a snack, and a 4-5 hour break so we can hang out with Daddy before he goes to work.
It works so well!  Since they know they have a huge break, they work really hard to get most of their work done within the two hours.  Savannah usually has about one to two more hours to do, but it is the stuff that isn't teacher intensive, like reading, spelling, and piano.  Charlotte usually does everything but piano and reading, which takes about 45 min. total.  It has been awesome.  School doesn't take all day now!  Daddy has awakened to a clean house and a happy family this week. 

The only down side is that I am fairly unavailable for two solid hours and so my littles don't get much attention during that time.  I do focus my attention on them for the rest of the day to make up for it, though.

Changes:  Savannah's language arts consists of R&S grammar & spelling.  I was going to add in a writing curriculum next year, but I have decided to give WWE 3 a try again. 
She finished reading a book this week, so I asked her to tell me what it was about.  She gives lots of details and zero summary, so I'm thinking WWE 3 is in order.  I just hate to add to her load though.  We'll see how it goes next week and see.  I'm undecided about what to do.