One of the biggest problems we've had with homeschooling is getting consistent effort out of Matthew. The other two boys are generally pretty good tho of course they have bad days but Matthew tends to just be able to dawdle for hours which usually ends up leading to all sorts of problems later on. This year I'm trying a reward system where every Friday we have either movie day or a fun field trip but the boys have to be caught up on their schoolwork in order to make it happen. This is the second week we are trying this after last week not getting to see a movie on Friday. Christopher has a yearbook meeting on Friday so we decided to try for Thursday instead.
Well, as of this morning it was looking very doubtful Matthew would be going to the Jelly Belly Factory. But he managed to rally today completing 2 math lessons, 2 spelling, 4 history, and a grammer test. It took all day and a few "mommy glares" but he got the minimum done that he needed to. Tomorrow before we leave he's got to finish some more math but I don't think it will be a problem. Jonathan managed to get everything done except for his phonics (which he can't do more than what he already has scheduled in a day) so he's looking awesome. We'll just do phonics tomorrow before leaving and he'll have the rest of the day off. Christopher managed to get some of his work for tomorrow done so again, he's looking good. I just hope Matthew will learn that dawdling doesn't pay in the long run. It's been a hard lesson to get him to learn and we are still working on it. I keep praying every school year that this will be the eyar he figures it out. It would make things so much easier on both of us.
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