adjustments to our schedule

We are starting our 4th week of school. We have struggled to get back into the schedule of doing school and not running around like we did all summer. Part of the problem is that the original schedule was to rigid, and allowed no time for life. Then I got flustered and didn't use any schedule. Bobby and I visited about this topic last night, we came to some solutions. We do school from 10:30-2:30 Mon - Friday. I do preschool and Kindergarten with the girls before lunch, then while they have quiet time Bobby and I work together to do his school work. He is given all of his work for the week on Sunday night. A lot of his work is individual work. He works on his individual stuff while I teach the girls. The subjects that we work on together come after lunch when the house is quieter. Removing the rigidness of the schedule will hopefully help us to get everything done and not feel overwhelmed if we miss something, because we were busy when that specific time rolled around.

We have about gotten our after school routines figured out as well. I pick a friends little girl up at 3, she is with us part of the afternoon and into the evening. Chris comes home at 3:45. All the kids have a snack then we do homework with K and Chris. Then we start chores. We are working on our schedule, maybe we will get it figured out!