Monday Morning Back to School Blues

When we started school this morning, I thought it was going to be a bad day. Grace was just not in to it. I dragged her through her first three subjects - Bible, Spelling, and Typing. As I mentioned before in my other blog we are using workboxes this year. As we made it to the 4th box everything started improving. Until we reached the dreaded written narration. Grace does not like to write!!!!!! But I am committed that this year Grace will write two written narrations a week. One for history and the other from whatever we are reading in literature. Today was history. I let her decide if she wanted to write from what she read in If I Lived During the American Revolution or what I read from Mr. Revere and I. Of course she choose the easier which was what she was reading. Right now she is only writing about a paragraph. I hope by the end of this year we can get to two - three paragraphs. After writing the narration she came aruond and did every box willingly and happily. So she did end up earning herself a prize for the day from the prize bucket. I know she is 10 but she is really driven with a reward system. Make that a short term reward system. So a small dollar store prize each day works very nicely. Here is what was in our workboxes for today:

1. Bible
2. Spelling
3. Typing
4. History
5. Written Narration
6. Crossword Puzzle
7. Math
8. Make,write, and address a card to a friend
9. Georgia State History
10. Science
11. Geography Terms
12. Independent Reading