Start Your Week Off Strong – Getting Organized

Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool

               

 

Happy Monday!
This is the first day of your school week. Let’s strive to start off strong this week. First, get dressed down to your shoes. Get your children up, and after they eat breakfast, send them to get dressed down to their shoes. I have learned over the years that it is less messy if they get dressed after they eat and brush their teeth.
Check your Morning Routine and see where you need to declutter and which Home Blessing you are doing today. I wash my sheets on Monday. The boys wash their sheets throughout the week.
Next, check your menu plan and make sure you don’t need to be thawing out ingredients for dinner. I have started using an electric pressure cooker for many of our evening meals, and it has been so nice to start dinner a little later in the afternoon.
Usually, the dishwasher is ready to run just after breakfast, so I get it started while the boys are brushing their teeth and getting dressed. As you can see, we have fine-tuned our routines. Each person knows what to do each morning.
We start school as they finish their morning routines. They take turns checking on the outdoor animals and refreshing water. So there are different start times for them. They know to start with math, and then they work through their subjects and talk to me as needed for directions.
As they work through their morning schoolwork, we alternate movement activities with sit-down work. This helps them focus when they are doing their paperwork.
Your Zone Mission today is to declutter the kitchen counters and wipe down.
Your Home Blessing for today is to wash sheets.
My menu plan for Monday is hamburgers and a salad.
How strong is your Morning Routine? How can I help you with ideas on making it great?
Have a wonderful day!

 

Zone Missions: The Kitchen

Monday – Declutter Kitchen Counters and Wipe Down

Tuesday – Declutter 1 Kitchen Drawer

Wednesday –  Declutter 1 Kitchen Cabinet

Thursday – Declutter one shelf in the Fridge

Friday – Wipe down the Stove and Microwave

 

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About Tami

Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of 6, who in age from 26 to 11. She and her husband have homeschooled for 17 years and have graduated three of their children from their homeschool. They are currently homeschooling 3 boys who are in grades 11, 9, and 6. They use hands-on learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children. Tami is a homeschool author and conference speaker. You can contact her by email at Tami@TamiFox.com. Buy her book, Giving Your Children Wings at https://tamifox.net/giving-your-children-wings/.

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