School

Well we are a few weeks into school and I am still alive. We have been working our little butts off every day to finish all the assignments the kids are supposed to do. Let me tell you, it is a lot of work trying to teach school to 3 kids in 3 grades, luckily elijah is just in kindergarten so he only has 2 1/2 hours of school a day, but next year when he starts going full time I don't know how I will handle it.
I really like the curriculum and only have a few minor complaints, overall I am glad we decided to try this online school. I love the structure it provides for me and for the kids, and I love knowing everything the kids are learning. I hated when the kids were going to public school and they would come home with assignments and I wouldn't know how to help them fully because I didn't know everything they were working on. I just love being so involved in my kids lives.
And I love not having to do homework after school, my evenings are mine and mine alone (well sort of) because we always finish school by at the very latest 4:00 and sometimes as early as 1:00. It is so much less stressful teaching kids during the day than it is to try to teach them when you are trying to get dinner on the table and dad is home from work and they want to go play with friends. (if you cant tell I hate homework--if kids are going to be at school for six hours a day they should have plenty of time to finish all their work !!!)
So my mind has been occupied the last month or so with school school school and I keep trying to think of ways to make it more efficient and not so stressful for me. I wrote up a chart on sunday for the kids to follow so that when Crysania is doing something on the computer that doesn't require me to help, Bowen is doing an assignment that I need to help him with, and vise-versa, and the same for elijah. It seemed to work really well and the day went pretty well, and we were done a little sooner than normal. So hopefully we will be able to stick to the schedule and school will be a little more pleasant. Before I felt like I was running from one kid to the other constantly trying to help them all at the same time and it just wasn't working.