You all, I am really running out of steam. The last couple of weeks have been nuts. This week is overbooked with things outside of the house. I’m going to cut my losses and just plan for the bare minimum of lessons and to accomplish laundry and meals and dishes. I look forward to returning to quieter days, but they aren’t here quite yet.<\/p>\n
Rejoice<\/strong>: Quiet for me, with Bible and prayer\u00a0and writing something and planning. Writing morning pages and writing down a concrete plan for the day are still working together to help me focus and refocus frequently thought the day.<\/p>\n Relate<\/strong>:\u00a0We will talk about Bach and Cassett with a group of friends this week, and that is going to be it for art and music. I am not going to endeavor to do any listening to Beethoven’s compostions or looking at Gainsborough’s work<\/p>\n Remember<\/strong>: However, we still haven’t mastered\u00a0Psalm 1\u00a0or\u00a0Jabberwocky<\/a>\u00a0by Lewis Carroll so I suppose we should continue on for a couple more weeks. \u00a0But I’m getting tired of\u00a0Simple Gifts<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0Nothing But the Blood of Jesus<\/a>, so we will put in a new folk song and a new hymn next week. I am thinking about Over the River and Through the Wood<\/em> for the folk song. \u00a0You know, because it shows up in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em>.<\/p>\n Reason<\/strong>: We’ll continue with math and grammar as we have been. And one boy will continue with his study of JavaScript and Electronics. I am teaching Latin to moms one evening.<\/p>\n Read<\/strong>: I’ll read aloud most days\u00a0from Roger Lancelyn Green’s retelling of\u00a0Robin Hood<\/em> and from poems by William Blake.\u00a0The younger boys will read for thirty minutes a day from books that are in our ridiculous personal library. I need to gather each boy a little pile of things that I think he will like to choose from. The Freshman needs to read 40 minutes a day from Twain’s\u00a0The\u00a0Adventures of\u00a0<\/em>Tom Sawyer<\/em> if he wants to be able to complete the next composition assignment.<\/p>\n Record<\/strong>:\u00a0The younger boys will do copywork and an IEW lesson. The older guy has a project to work on, and we all need to add to timelines and such.<\/p>\n Restore<\/strong>: There are plans to be at\u00a0the YMCA\u00a0at least twice this week, and\u00a0don’t have anywhere to be in the evenings this week. That will help my sudden need for more rest since we should all get to bed on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You all, I am really running out of steam. The last couple of weeks have been nuts. This week is overbooked with things outside of the house. I’m going to cut my losses and just plan for the bare minimum of lessons and to accomplish laundry and meals and dishes. I look forward to returning … Continue reading “Week 13 Intentions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-education","category-school-journal","tag-intentions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p774DL-5w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}