Last night I sat down at the computer and punched in a weeks worth of lesson plans for Kelly. I do not know why I did not think of doing this before. One of the biggest chunks of work I had to do every night last year was to write up the daily lesson plans each night for each of the kids. If I can do a week of lesson plans at a time on the weekends, that will allow me to concentrate more on just teaching the kids during the week.
Kelly saw the first lesson plan and was very worried that she will not be able to get everything done. I sat down with her, and we went through the lesson plan for the first day. We agreed that she should be able to get through most of it before lunch. She showed me that on Wednesday, she had a HUGE math assignment. We will leave it like it is and see how she does. I told her not to work past the point of frustration. If it is too much, we will pencil the changes in this weeks lesson plan and move Friday’s (and possibly Thursday’s) work out until week two. She has a ton of reading to do, but she really loves to read and the first books are just super. One of the big time consumers from last year was that Kelly needed to spend a lot of time reading on different countries around the world from the
I will work on Christian’s lesson plan tonight. He has been working very hard to get the money in his piggy bank up to $100. I told Kelly and Christian that when they got that much money together, we could start their savings accounts. I have changed my mind a little bit about what I want them to do with their money. For now, they will be saving 30% of their money for school, 10% will go for retirement savings, 10% will go to charity, and the remainder, they can spend on whatever they would like.