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I love how structured your days seem to be. The last few times I have tried the schedule thing, I've just sucked at it. I am giving myself the next two weeks to get my house in order (after moving this weekend), and study enough to pass my two finals next week (so excited to be done with statistics and business law!), then I think we will get some structure going for both the kiddo and myself.I like the idea of her and I sitting down to work on school work together, I just need to make sure whatever she is working on, she can do mostly on her own. Question, do you let the girls listen to music/audio books while doing their school work?
I let them listen to audiobooks when they're doing something kind of mindless, like their cursive or copying a composition. To Syd's great grief, I won't let her listen to anything that has a plot when she's working on any other subjects, because I don't think she'll have her whole mind on that subject, then.We'll sometimes listen to music, though, while we're doing other subjects. I really like using Spotify as a ready reference tool, so this summer we'd listen to Civil War-era songs while the girls worked on their Civil War projects, and I'd try to find songs that mentioned the state we were studying while they did their geography, etc. There's this one musician, Victor Johnson, who has an AMAZING CD of multiplication songs, and I feel like I stream those all the time, because the girls *still* haven't memorized their multiplication tables, sigh.
In the past, I've been the same way with Emma and her audio books. Thinking of letting her try more complicated stuff, just to see if she'll complain less. Multiplication tables are on our to learn this year list.
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I love how structured your days seem to be. The last few times I have tried the schedule thing, I've just sucked at it.
I am giving myself the next two weeks to get my house in order (after moving this weekend), and study enough to pass my two finals next week (so excited to be done with statistics and business law!), then I think we will get some structure going for both the kiddo and myself.
I like the idea of her and I sitting down to work on school work together, I just need to make sure whatever she is working on, she can do mostly on her own.
Question, do you let the girls listen to music/audio books while doing their school work?
I let them listen to audiobooks when they're doing something kind of mindless, like their cursive or copying a composition. To Syd's great grief, I won't let her listen to anything that has a plot when she's working on any other subjects, because I don't think she'll have her whole mind on that subject, then.
We'll sometimes listen to music, though, while we're doing other subjects. I really like using Spotify as a ready reference tool, so this summer we'd listen to Civil War-era songs while the girls worked on their Civil War projects, and I'd try to find songs that mentioned the state we were studying while they did their geography, etc. There's this one musician, Victor Johnson, who has an AMAZING CD of multiplication songs, and I feel like I stream those all the time, because the girls *still* haven't memorized their multiplication tables, sigh.
In the past, I've been the same way with Emma and her audio books. Thinking of letting her try more complicated stuff, just to see if she'll complain less.
Multiplication tables are on our to learn this year list.
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