New Summer Attitude::Day 1

This was not a big "hoorah" day or anything- just our normal schedule:

Morning Routine:
Chores (everyone works while Mark makes breakfast)
Eat (mom reads- a young person's book on the Acts of the Apostles)
Bible Study (brief discussion on reading)
Math (each boy does one lesson per day- 20 minutes or so)
Family Prayer Time (normally done after breakfast/bible study)
Read Aloud (we began "Stormy, Misty's Foal)

Game Time (Forbidden Island- This game will get its own post ;))


Break! (Paul listened to an audio book, James played Legos, and Mark made a chart of different types (uses) of mules.)

I should insert here that we are on a "video/dvd/wii" blackout. I am not super strict about these as a rule during the summer, but have observed that when things are getting bumpy (behavior-wise) it is often best to do away with the electronic stuff for a while, and things have been bumpy!

In addition to trying on a new more relaxed attitude during our a.m. routine, I decided to try a different approach for regrouping in the afternoon. After reading the "summer diaries" at Whimsy Love, I was reminded of the fun summer days that I enjoyed with my now grown daughters. I have so many fond memories of friendship braclet making, toenail polish, "string painting" t-shirts to wear as beach covers...

Thinking those sorts of activities probably won't work with my boys, I grabbed our "Totally Irresponsible Science" book off the shelf and decided that something that exploded might be a good fit. The only one that we had the ingredients for was the "bag bomb". While Paul had fun, Mark (10yo) and James (8yo) were practically giddy over this experiment.



From there we moved happily (that little experiment had a great effect on the mood) on to some laundry folding/putting away, a bit of school room cleaning, our horse unit study, and reading a book about the Pony Express.

The boys last hours of the afternoon were spent with their sisters at the local pool, and our evening was spent frog hunting.

Comments

  1. The AdventurerJune 23, 2011 at 11:40 AM

    My kids wold love anything that exploded:) Love seeing you schedule I love to see what others are doing. Thanks for checking out my blog hope you will stop by again:)

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  2. UnknownJune 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    Sounds like a great day to me!! Did you see that you won the Writing Prompts?? Yay!

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  3. Mama ManuscriptsJune 24, 2011 at 6:50 AM

    Sounds like a wonderful day to me! I'm looking forward to your post about that game (we are big gamers here and are always looking for something new to play!). I'll also have to look up 'Totally Irresponsible Science". My son is always looking for experiments to do!

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