Managing homeschool a little more closely

Lorena and I had a discussion last night about how the kids are doing with their homeschool.  They understand the material very well and are learning a lot.  One thing we thought might help improve both their enjoyment of homeschool and their free time is some fairly minor modifications in the way we organize the work for them.  Since they arrived in Texas, we have given them a list of what they need to get done in the morning, a list of what they need to get done in the afternoon, and a list of what I will do with them at night.  Of course, some of the stuff is more fun than other of the stuff and some is harder and some is easier.  We talked with both Kelly and Christian and between us all, we decided it might be a help to put down the order in which the work should be completed.  Each one of the kids sat with me and looked at today’s work.  We decided what should be done in each section of the day and then put each section in order, too.  I think that is going to work out quite well.  If it does, I will set up next weeks schedule by the order and time it should be accomplished during the day rather than by subject areas.  The rest of the week will be a good experiment to see if that is a good idea.