Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-12T23:59:59-05:00
Location: LaGrange, KY

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September 15, 2014 at 6:42 pm
elsnow6
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Mycupoverflows- can you explain Lifestyle of Learning? I looked at their site but couldn’t understand it for the life of me.
September 15, 2014 at 8:24 pm
suzukimom
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Well, I have to say…. I flip-flopped again. LOL. I don’t know how you guys all put up with me.
I was getting things setup to do Easy Peasy…. and I did have worries about keeping them on task, monitoring that they actually do the items, etc.
Anyway – I then decided I would try to continue with AO…. but only have 1 reading per child that has to be done with me each day – and then 1 more reading with whatever child I determine could use it… and follow my OWN advice (given to me YEARS ago I admit – but I’ve given it out too) to treat each AO week as a module and go whatever speed we end up going.
So…. that is what we did today. I think that will work. I’ll look at when I’ve scheduled books on the organizer to try to make it even out the readings required with me so there will be less tweaking….
September 15, 2014 at 8:26 pm
suzukimom
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I have to say though that everyones suggestions were lovely – and I think I’m going to make a ‘Burnt Out’ list out of them for the future… and also keep the ideas for the ‘Break Weeks’ I’ve scheduled into my general schedule…..
September 15, 2014 at 10:16 pm
TX-Melissa
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That sounds like a good plan. 🙂 I hesitated to mention it since I have only one student, but I am using Easy Peasy. And, thanks to this dyslexia business, he is NOT working independantly, even though that was my plan initially when I switched to EP. But, since I have only one student, its not too big of a deal to sit with him and keep him on track, do much of the reading, etc. But I don’t think I could do that with more than one kid. I am still working on easing him in to using tts to be able to work more independantly. But we’re so far from that. Sigh. I think you are probably on the right trac for your family. File EP away for future reference, maybe… 🙂
Melissa
September 16, 2014 at 3:40 am
jmac17
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Suzukimom, it sounds like you have a good plan. One thing that is working well for us is that I just planned time for each of 1. morning basket (together), 2. reading/narrating, 3. writing/Spanish, 4. math, 5. listening/narrating (ie. Mom reads aloud), and 6. “riches”(together). I had originally tried to schedule different amounts of time for each child, based on age/ability, but this week we started just doing 20 minute blocks for everyone, so everyone switches activities at the same time.
The specific assignments change for each student (eg. “writing” varies from letter formation and then some colouring time for DD5 to dictation and written narration for DD9) Once everyone has spent 20 minutes on each subject (30 for math), then we are done for the day. I figure that’s a well rounded day, so I’m content with it. We just rotate through assignments/readings within each subject area, so eventually we get to everything, which is basically your module idea.
You would of course adjust the ‘subjects’ for your kids.
Joanne