The Posters

Yesterday I spent some time writing up some posters for the children. They are nothing fancy, I assure you. I made 3 so far. The first is Routines, listing out Morning and Evening Routines. The second is Chores, and the third is the Daily Schedual. The posters need more work, as they are only written out in pencil. I'll take pictures later.

Some of my friends are already expressing curiosity as to what's on the Posters, that is working so well. I will write ours out for you :)

Routines:

Morning~
*Make Bed

*Get Dressed

*Dirty laundry to hamper
*Hair, hands, face, teeth

Evening~
*Final clean-ups
*Pjs on
*Dirty laundry to hamper
*Hair, hands, face, teeth, last drink, and potty

Chores:

• Put away clean dishes
• Wash dirty dishes
• Trash out
• Laundry hampers to wash room
• Fold and put away
• Wash table & highchair
• Pick up LR floor
• Pick up K floor
• Pick up H floor
• Sweep up entry floor
• Rabbit care
• Dog care
• Bird care
• Clean up bedroom
• Clean up playroom
• Clean up nursery
• Clean up bathroom
• Clean up outside toys

Now, now, don't freak out on me. These are things the children all work on together as a team, and we manage to get them done in a very reasonable amount of time, as long as we are doing it EVERY. DAY. I work with the children, sometimes helping with the task they are doing, other times doing the next step or a bigger part of the picture along side of them. 99% of the time, they are cleaning up messes they made :D So it's not impossible.... unless we don't bother doing the work after the play.

Daily Schedual:

8 am Wake up, Morning routine

8:30 Breakfast

9 am Morning Chores

10 am School -or- Project time

12:30 pm Lunch time

1 pm Recess Outside

1:30 School -or- Project time

3 pm Afternoon Chores

4 pm Recess time

5 pm Start Supper

7 pm Evening Routines -and- baths

*** 7:30 pm EARLY BEDTIME (consequence only)

8 pm Final Clean-ups -and- Feed Dogs

8:30 Story time

9 pm Lights out. No excuses.

Yes, I have Final Clean-ups in there twice in the evening. Jacob is as fast as greased lightening and as destructive as a hurricane when he's in a mood. LOL When it's not needed, they get that extra time for other things. We're not there yet.

Yes, I have 2 hours of chore time. They just wasted 37 minutes building forts behind closed dorrs while I typed this up for all of you. :) I need to go deal with that. ;)