Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

A friend passed along "Managers of their Homes" by the Maxwell's.  It's an interesting read.  One thing I found in their book that I have picked up on and modified to meet our needs is scheduling the same lunches for every day of the week.  For example, Monday is Mac and Cheese day - every Monday.  Tuesday is Grilled Cheese and Quesadilla day.  etc.... We've taken it several steps further and added breakfast to the list and have assigned themes for dinner.  We still have some blanks and tweeking to do.  Here's what we have so far....... Monday: Breakfast - cereal Lunch - Mac and Cheese Dinner - Mexican Tuesday: Breakfast - Muffins Lunch - Mac and Cheese Dinner - Italian Wednesday: Breakfast - Coffee Bread/Sweet Bread Lunch - Chicken nuggest and French Fries Dinner - American Thursday: Breakfast - Waffles Lunch - Frozen Pizza Dinner - Chinese Friday: Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner - Seafood Saturday: Breakfast - Pa...

Last week, A ran out of writing prompts in her book.  Since the other books are in storage, I searched the Internet for ideas and found a good list here http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1492.html .  I've told A that she can pick what she wants to write about and then cross it off so she's not doing the same thing over and over. Today, she selected Write a recipe for gooncake.  Basicly, she had to make up a recipe for cake.  So she did and then asked if we could have Home Ec so she would try it out.  The results - a beautiful cake which didn't rise, but edible.  We've already discussed ways to make it better.

This year, the snow arrived in January - and it was pretty!!  The kids had fun playing in it for several days!   Snow actually only fell on one day.  However, the temperatures didn't get above freezing for the week so we had snow all week!  What a surprise in TX.