Minimal Prep Tip 4 - The Delightful Dose of the Dailies

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So, you have your Lego table and Art Studio setup, you have a game or two picked out to play today, you even planned a creative scavenger hunt, and your kids finished their “Solo Time” without interrupting you or waking you up before 10:00 AM.

NOW WHAT? It’s 10:05 AM. What are you going to do?

Now you start “School Time with Mommy” and you arrive ready to be present with your children. Greet them with hugs and smiles and positivity oozing out of your pores. No matter how you are feeling - happy, tired, overwhelmed, or excited, and no matter how they respond - contented, bored, complaining, enthusiastic - when it’s time to start, you show how thankful you are to share the day with them. Choose to be the positive force in their life in this precious little moment.

Start with prayer, a song, a quote, scripture...whatever you want to direct their hearts to. 

Then you start the “Dailies.” 

Dailies are the things your kids love to do to start off their day that is not the major curriculum. It can be songs you sing together, questions you discuss, or a specific journal they complete and share with you. It’s a time to grow together...a time to nurture character development...a time to laugh together. It’s a time to discuss big topics about life. It’s a time to remember that life is short and relationships are to be treasured. 

Our Dailies include a couple items that my children completed during Solo Time like the Gratitude Journal and the Mad Libs, and also some items that we complete together during this time like the Question of the Day and the Word of the Day. We love this time; it’s light-hearted, full of giggles, creativity, and learning about each other. 

Then, when the dailies are over, we move on to 1-2 core subjects, which is either work they may have completed during Solo Time, or new lessons moving forward in curriculum. After a break, we just go about our day, whether it's outside play, a learning class, board games, videos, more curriculum and core subjects, a play date, art projects, crafts, subscription kits, an errand, etc. You may get a lot done in your day. You may only get a few things done...

...but, at least the Dailies happened. 

Do you have a daily ritual in your homeschool?

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