I know some of you do this regularly, however, I've never been brave enough to venture far from mom-centric learning methods. Weekly task lists seem to disconnect my children from me and their ability to work independently is questionable many days. Yet, certain events last week got me rethinking how we do this (yet again).
This is our last week before we break for Christmas and it seemed that we had a lot left to accomplish. So rather than rethink it all again I decided to just lay it all out there for the boys. I decided to try the weekly task list.
I wrote out on the whiteboard everything that needed to be finished this week...science ideas, math lessons, vocabulary studies, history thoughts, lapbook, etc.
Then I said, "By Thursday, this board needs to be wiped clean. So, what is your plan to get it there?"
They went to work... BUSILY. They took ownership of everything and we are, indeed, wiping that puppy clean. Cool.
How do you make the weekly task list work for you?
I just realize that not everything will get done in a week (or sometimes a month) and it's cool. Stuff gets done....eventually.
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